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We were all so pleased to hear of the success of Jamie in Year 10 in being selected as a finalist in the National Black History Month Poetry Competition.

Jamie’s poem, celebrating the skill and determination of Toni Morrison—a writer introduced to students as part of the Elizabethan programme in Year 9—was selected as one of the top three ...

On March 20th, 2024, the prestigious Royal Holloway Campus played host to the finals of the annual SATRO Problem Solving Competition. Among the eager participants were five talented Year 12 students from Wilson’s, who had earned their spot in the final after an impressive showing at the qualifying heat, held at St. Philomena's School back in January. The ...

Poetry By Heart has become a highly anticipated annual fixture in the Wilson’s Calendar. Each year the number of students participating grows, fired up by the successes of Pavamaan (Year 11) and Vivaan (Year 11) in the National Finals over past years. This year, over 30 students from Years 7 to 13 gathered ...

Over 250 students entered our annual House Music competition this year, and on Thursday, 14 March, we saw the culmination of the event with the Young Musician of the Year Final. The audience was treated to impressive performances across all instrumental classes in both Junior (Years 7–9) and Senior (Years 10–13) categories.

Whilst Mark Stone, ...

Computing continues to engage and attract many of our students, eager to work at the cutting edge of technology. We strive to offer as many pupils as possible the chance to take part in exciting challenges such as the OUCC.

The Oxford University Computing Challenge (OUCC) is an invitation event which aims to encourage students who have achieved ...

We are pleased to report that a team led by one of our Year Twelve Pupils has recently enjoyed significant national success in Robotics—an exciting, cutting-edge field. Read on to find out more about their work, as reported by Ray.

I have been competing in the Vex Robotics competition, which is a global Robotics competition with over ...

Maths Feast 2024

On Wednesday 21st February four Year Ten students braved the wet weather and journeyed over to Raynes Park High School to compete in the annual Maths Feast (organised by the AMSP) against schools from the southwest of London. Over the course of two and a half hours they worked through 4 diverse rounds of questions. They ...

The Junior Team Chess Challenge, organised by the English Chess Foundation, gives talented players in the early years of secondary school the opportunity to compete in a national tournament. From a series of regional heats, winning teams proceed to the National Final, which this year will be held in Birmingham. Wilson’s entered two teams—U13 A and ...

Congratulations to both the Senior and Junior Debating Team for winning the Youth Speaks competition and getting through to the next round.

The judges were highly complimentary, saying the Year 7 speakers had "natural charm and delivery," with particular praise to Aaron, who was told the judge had "not heard ...

From Monday 29th January to Thursday 1st February, the annual Wilson’s School House Music competition took place. This year, we had a bumper entry, with nearly 250 students from across the school taking part!

We were fortunate to have some extremely distinguished judges visit the school to adjudicate the seven different instrument categories ...

On Sunday, the Wilson’s Chess A Team made its way to Harrow School for the first ECF Schools Blitz tournament. In a field of around fifteen schools with Wilson’s as the favourite, we knew our biggest rivals would be St Paul’s. The format was twelve rounds of three minutes plus two seconds increment: a very fast time control that led to some incredibly ...

The Hans Woyda Competition has been running in the local area for the past 44 years. It started off with only 8 schools in Sutton and has now expanded to 64 schools from across North and South London and was named after one of the founders. It is a team competition formed of 7 rounds, all timed. Mental arithmetic skills need to be strong as well ...

The inception of the Spring Term marked the hosting of House Countdown, mimicking the established game Countdown—previously a staple of British culture, and now soon-to-be a staple of Wilsonian society! In the run up to the competition, colourful posters and descriptive notices were displayed school-wide; nevertheless, with this ...

Eager readers of our website will remember that last term Shuayb (Year Thirteen) was selected as our school finalist for the national ARTiculation competition, run by the Royal Academy to promote public speaking and engagement with visual culture.

On Thursday, 11 January, Shuayb and Mrs Fletcher made their way to the Royal Academy on Piccadilly. ...

Last Thursday, an audience of staff and students was treated to three superb talks from the trio of sixth formers who have been working this term on the ARTiculation competition. An annual competition run by the Royal Academy, ARTiculation aims to promote the appreciation and discussion of visual culture.

This term, Miss Waterhouse and Mrs ...

On Thursday 7th December, the Charities Committee hosted the grand finale for the University Challenge Competition, raising money for this year’s chosen charities: Lives not Knives and Mind.

The preliminary rounds saw Brecon and Southwark qualifying for the final, after a fierce battle of knowledge against ...

The Autumn term has been a busy time for the House and Co-Curricular Team at Wilson’s. House Captains and their Deputies have been getting to know their form groups in the youngest three years of the school and planning a wide variety of events. Duty Prefects have been instrumental in the provision of nearly 100 lunchtime co-curricular clubs and ...

On the 23rd of November, the Charities Committee hosted the preliminary rounds for the school University Challenge competition to help raise money for our charities of choice this year - Lives not Knives and Mind.

Organised by the Charities Prefect (Edwin in Year Thirteen) and his team, each form selected ...

For the first time this year, we ran a poetry competition to celebrate Black History Month, and are proud to announce the winners of the competition this week!

Congratulations go to Rinojan (Year 7), and Liang (Year Eight) – Key Stage Three Winners (banner photo, top); Mattia and Cheran (photo, below) (both Year Eight) – Key Stage Three Highly ...

Alexander (Year Ten), who is participating in the Young Reporter Scheme, wrote this fantastic article about the recent Battle of the Bands competition. You can see many other articles written by Wilson’s students for this scheme on Young Reporter | This Is Local London; over ...

We were very pleased to present our top-scoring pupils in the most recent Maths Challenges with their awards last week to recognise their exceptional achievement in mathematics. Last term, a record number of students from Years Seven and Eight qualified for the Kangaroo and Olympiad competitions. These are tricky national competitions which test ...

Nilin in Year 7 has been given a commendation for his History essay for the Young Historian Project. This is a prestigious national competition and this was for the Key Stage 3 category, therefore a commendation as a Year 7 is an impressive achievement.

The History department would like to congratulate Nilin for this impressive achievement.

Wilson’s chess players were excited to take part in Rapidplay at Eton, a national event with more than 50 schools attending from as far afield as Manchester. Morale was high for the Wilson’s team going into the first round, seeing as we were the top seed with an average rating of nearly 2000! By the end of the day, the team would emerge victorious ...

Battle of the Bands 2023 is nigh! Last year was the exciting inaugural Battle of senior and junior bands, supported by a wonderful crowd of family, friends and teachers and next week we see who will be crowned the literal rock-stars of the school.

With junior bands (Year Seven - Nine) such as Shard VI, Rhythmic Rebellion, and (defending victors) ...

After last year’s high point of placing second in the National Schools Chess Finals, Wilson’s Chess has started the year with a bang!

On Friday 15th September, three teams entered the annual Russell Jamboree held at Royal Grammar School, Guildford. The A team obliterated the field to win the Championship with 10 points out of 12. Our strongest ...

We were very pleased to learn that Sam W (Year 12) has won the prestigious Young Historian Award for Local History 2023, for his essay on the treatment of conscientious objectors in Croydon. Sam wrote a fascinating piece on the treatment of and local attitudes to conscientious objectors, focusing specifically on the experiences of those from Croydon ...

Congratulations to all of the Year 7 and Year 8 students who took part in the Junior Maths Challenge earlier this year.

Nearly every student earned a certificate; there were 35 bronzes, 101 silvers and 232 golds! Out of this bumper crop of results, 162 students qualified for the Junior Kangaroo, which is a one-hour multiple choice paper, ...

We have had another successful year in the Southampton Mathematics Challenge. Students from Years 7 to 10 submit their worked solutions to the puzzles. Some students were able to attend the prize giving event at the University (see the article below). Students who were not able to attend will receive their certificates and prizes from the Maths ...

Last Friday, the Wilson’s chess team travelled up to Nottingham for a two-day event: the National Schools’ Chess Finals. The team comprised Rahul, Shivam, Shlok, Denis, Raghav, Balahari and me. This was by far the most prestigious competition we would take part in all year, as only the top 26 schools across England were able to qualify. However, ...

The three main computing competitions that students participated in are the Bebras Challenge, the Oxford University Computing Challenge (OUCC) and the British Informatics Olympiad (BIO), and several students take part in these each year.

The Bebras Challenge is an international online competition that tests students' problem-solving and computational ...

All Year 7 and 8 pupils have been taking part in a German and French Spelling/Translation Bee competition in class during the autumn and spring terms. Two members of each class made it through to represent their house in the school competition. On Thursday 22nd and Wednesday 28th June twelve Year 7 boys competed in the Spelling competition and twelve ...

Wilson’s History department recently set a competition for our young historians. We gave them a series of titles to choose from, or an option to design their own, and three weeks in which to research and write their essay. We had an excellent range of titles, from the role animals played in World War I to an exploration of Wilson’s School and World ...

On Friday 21 April, Alex (Year 13), Ben (Year 12), Reyansh (Year 12), Arsh (Year 12), and I represented Wilson's at the Náboj maths competition, hosted at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University. The Náboj is an international competition, and this year we were one of the 468 participating teams across 12 countries.

Although ...

Enter with any photo you have taken of nature, including animals, plants, landscapes etc.

• £10 Amazon voucher for overall winner and other prizes to be won
• House points for every entry
• Only one entry per student / teacher /parent
• Must be your own work (entries will be cross-checked)
• Editing is permitted ...

As dawn broke on Friday, 5 May, something was in the air. The birds were chirping their sweet song, dog walkers were ambling by, and traffic was racing past as normal. So what was this thing in the air? Something intangible, but its presence could almost be heard. It whispered in your ear: ‘Today is the day’. But what could be happening on the 5th ...

The Young Musician of the Year Final took place on Tuesday evening in the presence of our adjudicator for the evening: Sam Jackson, Controller of BBC Radio 3. The Junior Young Musician of the year was awarded to Joshua (Year 9), who played Grovlez’s Sarabande et Allegro on saxophone, and the Senior Musician of the Year was Han (Year 11) who played ...

Wildlife club is thrilled to launch the Nature Photography Competition 2023, and we invite you to enter with any photo you have taken of nature (animals, plants, landscapes etc.).

• £10 Amazon voucher for overall winner and other prizes to be won
• House points for every entry
• Only one entry per student / teacher
• Parents ...

A number of Year 11 and Year 12 Physicists took part in the British Physics Olympiad Intermediate and Senior Challenges.

Nineteen of the Year 11s achieved Gold certificates, placing them in the top 9.8% of participants. 17 achieved Silver and the other 22 who sat the paper all earned a Bronze. Given that the paper is sat only by the strongest ...

Sixteen schools descended on the Maths Department at Imperial College on Wednesday, 19 April for this year’s national final of the ECF Team Chess Challenge. Teams came from across the country with players travelling from as far as Merseyside, Northumberland, Somerset and Bristol.

In the morning, GM Prof Jonathan Mestel of Imperial College ...

Old Wilsonian Chess Match Report

Earlier this month, we once again enjoyed the annual Old Wilsonian’s (OW) Chess Match in the John Jenkins Hall. On paper it is a two-round match-up between the past and present chess players of Wilson’s, but it also serves as a reunion for OWs to reconnect with former classmates and teachers, and share where ...

Last term a clutch of eager pupils from Years 7-10 competed in our Wilson’s School Heat of Poetry By Heart. Watched by an appreciative audience in the John Jenkins Hall, the competitors recited poems spanning English Literature from medieval times until 2019!

Vivaan in Year 10 gave a stand-out performance of “Names ...

Maths Feast

On 22 March, four students from Year 10 (banner photo, above) attended the Maths Feast competition, held at Raynes Park High School.

We made our way to the school by public transport where we were greeted by a hall full of 20 tables. We were directed to ours; and it wasn't long before the feast began! In a fun first round, ...

A selective group sit the BPhO online challenge competition, which means that our students were competing against some of the best physicists in the country. The average score, nationwide, was 23.8 / 40 and the standard deviation 5.6. Our average was 27.2 / 40, with a standard deviation of 3.8. Every Wilson’s student scored highly enough to achieve ...

ICYD Debating Competition

Four teams from Wilson’s met at UCL last week to participate in a round-robin style debating competition. It was a very enjoyable day with new things to be learnt for the youngest and oldest teams in the cohort!

The first round proved difficult, with teams preparing detailed content and speeches. The ‘unprepared ...

Just before half term, over 100 students from Years 9-12 competed in teams of five to earn the honour of representing the school in the SATRO problem-solving competition. The teams had an hour to make a lamppost-like structure using only the materials provided to them, which had to be as tall and long as possible and had a working light at the end ...

The school had seven students in Round 1 of the BPhO. This is a highly competitive competition that typically only the strongest students around the country enter. This year 2,830 students from 440 schools participated.

SENIOR WOODWIND (9-13)
1 Philip, 10H
2 Aayush, 13G
3 Leo, 13H
HC Tito, 10C
HC Ray, 11C
HC Aaron, 12G

JUNIOR WOODWIND (7-9)
1 Joshua, 9S
2 Farell, 9G
3 Sudersen, 8C
HC Chengcheng, 8C

SENIOR PERCUSSION (11-13)

A key part of the GCSEplus curriculum for GCSE Business is to help students develop an understanding of the stock market and trading. Year 10 Business students have been given an introduction to the workings of the stock maket and how to analyse company performance using websites such as Bloomberg.

They were then set the challenge of investing ...