As we enter Advent, we have produced an online Advent Calendar with daily reflections to help you join us as we journey through Advent. Our Advent Fundraising Campaign this year is for the Jesuit Refugee Service, with boys (and staff) taking on sponsored 125 themed challenges to raise money.
The history of Wimbledon College is being published at the beginning of December. Please see the attached flyer and order form.
Congratulations to Toby Gold who won the silver medal in the T33 100m final on Saturday at the Paralympics in Rio
Congratulations to the 15 College Ball Boys involved in this years Championships. All boys represented the school with distinction, and great to see so many involved in the Finals weekend.
The College achieved major success against London Oratory, Cardinal Vaughan, St Benedicts and Gunnersbury in last week's athletics' match.
A great opportunity to socialize with other parents from your son's year group in a relaxed atmosphere. You will be tasting a selection of fine wines complemented by a variety of delicious cheese.
Rhetoric Film Studies students create a documentary for Wimbledon Bookfest
There has been an improvement on last year’s results with 73% of boys achieving 5 A*-C [including English and Maths]. 25% of our results were A*/A grades and 51% were A*-B.
We are very pleased with the achievements of our Rhetoric pupils in their examinations this year. As a result the majority of the year group are taking up offers of university places around the country.
Outstanding individual results include Christian Repole and Etienne Cousin who have gained places at Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively. Christian achieved 4 A* and an A* in his EPQ. He is going on to study Engineering at Jesus College. Etienne who achieved 2 A* & 2 A grades will be studying Biological Sciences at Pembroke College.
Other outstanding results include Dominic Harte [2A*,2A], Isaac Chung [A*, 3A], Dilush Selvarajah [2A*,A,B] Conor Richardson [A*,2A,B], Linus Kurz [A*,A, 2B] and David Cecil [A*, 2A].
Overall the boys achieved a 99.6% pass rate, with more than 70% of all examination results graded A*-C and 20% graded A*/A. A growing number of boys undertake the Extended Project Qualification and they have achieved impressive results in this.
The boys are going on to study a wide variety of degree courses including, Architecture, Bio-medical sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, English, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Pharmacy, Physics, Psychology, Politics, Sport and Zoology.
Head Master, Adrian Laing said “Congratulations to all of the boys on their well deserved results. They have been committed to their studies and with the support of their families and teachers have worked hard to ensure such good progress. The vast majority of the boys are now in a position to take up places at their chosen universities and these include many of the top universities in the country. I wish them all the very best in their future careers”.
Former pupil and Olympic medallist Toby Gold pays Wimbledon College a visit before travelling to an Australian training camp in preparation for his next competitive race.
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