N e w s l e t t e R - Radley College

Radley Achievemen
Academic
4In Summer 2007 Radley’s A level candidates
achieved a record 89.45% A/B grades, coming
32nd in the Times Top 1000 schools. 56 boys
achieved 3 A grades or more. 7 got 5 A grades
and 2 boys 6 A grades. Peter Gwynn (West
Hill Park, d) and Michael Shephard (Aldro,
d) scored in the top ten marks nationally
for Further Maths A level, Arthur Voelcker
(Sherborne, d), Tobin Chew (Moulsford,
d) and Sebastian Lomas (Crosfields, h)
scored in the top ten for A level Design and
Technology, and Alex Chadwick (Cothill, h)
scored in the top five for A Level Electronics.
4The GCSE results were good; 80.5% of exams
were graded A or A* and Radley was placed
in the top 50 schools nationally in the GCSE
league tables. Charles Cutteridge (Highgate
Junior, d) gained one of the top ten marks
nationally in GCSE Spanish and Authur
Sawbridge (Hall Grove, e) in GCSE English.
4Mark Crawford (Dragon, c) won the Martin
Wills Memorial Award for creative writing.
4The Engineering Education Scheme team,
George Ulmann (St Faith’s, f), Harry
Devonshire (Twyford, a), Humphrey
Maddan (Aldro, c) and Alex Welch (Dragon,
a), solved an engineering problem posed
by RAF Benson; it has been adopted in the
RAF’s entire fleet of Puma helicopters.
4George Ulmann was selected as a UK
representative at the International Summer
School for Young Physicists in Canada.
4Metlink, centred on Radley’s Geography
Department, continues to expand, and has
national and international partners.
4In the Physics Olympiad, Rory van
Zwanenberg (Moulsford, g) won a gold medal.
4Delaval Knight (Cothill, d) gave a talk on
Sergeant Jagger’s World War One Memorial
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Sculpture in Hyde Park, and won 3rd prize in the
Roche Court Articulation Prize.
4Asa Bennett (Dragon, c) and Jamie Randell
(Summer Fields, c) were placed 2nd in a strong
Oxford Area Classical Association Reading
Competition, and Jamie Mason (Dragon, a) and
Jamie Macfarlane (Ludgrove, a) were 3rd in Senior
Greek dialogue.
4The Radley Chronicle, boy-run and boy-edited,
has now published 21 issues in 2 years, and 140+
boys have contributed. It continues to achieve
high standards of journalism.
4Declamations was judged by Charles Edwards
Esq. The Sixth Form competitions were quite
outstanding. The competition winners were: Ed
Chalk (6.2, Cothill, c); Jamie Randall (6.1, Summer
Fields, c); Edward Lindsell (5, Mowden Hall, f);
Activities
4The Wednesday Afternoon Activities Scheme
continues to flourish, and the Community
Partnerships Programme has seen all 5th
Formers visiting hospitals, working in Primary
Schools or – in the case of two concert parties
of musicians - visiting, and performing to, 25
different Residential Homes in the Oxford area.
4A group of 6.1s have run another holiday
club in Moreni, Romania (this year with
Headington School) and 6.2s have helped build
two more houses in Kerala.
4There has been a good deal of enterprising –
and exhausting – activity by boys and dons for
Charity. Over £100,000 has so far been raised
this year, but the sponsored walk which has
been postponed to September will yield more.
George Lines (Edge Grove, b), with his two
O.R. brothers, raised £11,000 for the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation by running
the London Marathon; £7,128 was raised for
the Stroke Association on the gruelling Bob
Graham run led by Paul Fernandez; Ollie
Arnott (Edgeborough, h) was especially
resourceful in raising sponsorship for this.
The Sky Dive led by Mick Wright and carried
out by Alex Wise (Sandroyd, c), Tom Walton
(Swanbourne House, d) and Francis Forbes-
Edwards (St Piran’s, c) raised £2,000 for the
DofE Millennium Fund. The school year ended
with two impressive fundraising efforts for the
University College London Hospital Charities:
Tim Morris (Succentor) raised £11,400 in his
marathon playing of the complete organ works
of Bach and Angus McChesney (Tutor of F
Social) raised over £50,000 by swimming the
channel.
4There has once again been a large range of
expeditions and visits in 2006/7: Biologists and
Geographers in 6.1 had successful Gower field
trips, and the Geographers completed a hectic
programme of visits to Big Pit, Blaenavan, Studland,
Barton and Hurst Castle. The sportsmen ventured
abroad, oarsmen and hockey players, to Spain,
rugby players to Italy and this summer to NZ.
Linguists went to Kitzbühel, Barcelona, Paris.
The musicians visited Prague, the Shells occupied
Normandy on the annual History trip, the classicists
visited Greece and the tennis players South Africa.
4Paul Fernandez ran the Ridgeway Race which
covers the 85 miles of the Ridgeway from Ivinghoe
Beacon to Avebury in 15 hours and 16 minutes.
He came second, which is now his National Trail
Running ranking.
4Tom Whitehead (Cothill, d) won a prestigious
Bulkeley-Evans HMC Scholarship to support a gap
year project in Uganda.
4The CCF has had a good year: Humphrey Maddan
(Aldro, c), Will Stinton (Sandroyd, b) and Dominic
Jerram (Sandroyd, f) joined Cameron Gubbins
(Elstree, c), Jamie Bromfield (Cothill, a) and David
Pumphrey (Northcote, b) as Army Scholars. We
have also had 4 boys on Gliding Scholarships,
Freddie Tapner (Ludgrove, f), Francis Forbes-
Edwards (St Prian’s, c), Alex Locke (Dragon, d),
George Nye (Dragon, e). John Wylie, in his 36th
year as a CCF Officer was awarded the Lord
Lieutenant’s Meritorious Service Certificate at a
special ceremony. It has also been a celebratory
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