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“The best A-level results of anyco-educational school in England”The Daily Telegraph, 2009

There were smiles all around on results day as college pupilscelebrated record GCSE and A-level results. 95% of grades wereA or B, up from the previous national record for co-educationalschools - set by Brighton College pupils in 2008. Nearly half ofall candidates achieved nothing below an A grade, a staggeringachievement.

Among the 72 pupils with at least 3 A grades were the 18 whoconfirmed their Oxford and Cambridge places: GeorginaAisbitt, Experimental Psychology (Wadham College, Oxford);Rebecca Considine, Music (Merton College, Oxford); Susie Dart,Biological Sciences (Magdalen College, Oxford); Jamie Duffell,Physiological Sciences (University College, Oxford); Louis Graham,PPE (Worcester College, Oxford); Jarrai Jawara, History andPolitics (Keble College, Oxford); Georgia Lewis, Physics (MagdalenCollege, Oxford); Tom Lord, History (Lincoln College, Oxford);Madeleine Sava, Architecture & Anthropology (Hertford College,Oxford); Toby Ankers, Economics (Sidney Sussex College,

Cambridge); Dan Chard, Music (Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge); Nicholas Garidis, Natural Sciences (St John's College,Cambridge); Abeed Mohamed, Economics (St John's College,Cambridge); Will Noble, Engineering (Downing College, Cambridge);Sophie St Claire-Jones, Biological Sciences (Homerton College,Cambridge); George Weller, Natural Sciences (Emmanuel College,Cambridge); Yuan Yuan Zheng, Mathematics (Emmanuel College,Cambridge); Liyou Zhou, Engineering (The Queens' College, Oxford).

In addition, coveted places at medical school were won by NadeemAl-Khafaji, (Liverpool), Anna Horner, (University of East Anglia),Stuart Maxwell, (Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry),Naoko McCabe (Imperial College, London), and Shanthi Rajkumar,(UCL), whilst Fulva Vyas, (King's London), Richard Grey(Bristol), and Rupert Young (Bristol), will study Dentistry andJames Browning has won a place to read Veterinary Sciencesat The Royal Veterinary College.

Stars in their eyesas GCSE recordtumblesOnce again, college GCSE results thisyear were sensational, smashing theprevious school record. More thanthree quarters of grades (76.5%) wereA* or A, the best in the county. Fiftypupils received nothing below an A* orA grade in every subject, among themFergus Blair who scored A*s in 11subjects, including Ancient Greek.Among those celebrating were threepairs of twins (pictured below).

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The best A-level results of any co-educational school in England

Christopher and Laura Hill, Caitlin and Benjamin Horner and Matthew and Stuart Waugh

A break with164 years oftraditionThe start of this term brought 164years of college tradition to an endwith the first cohort of Year 7 pupilsto Brighton College. The 40 boys andgirls who joined the new Lower Schoolimmediately got stuck into lessons andwithin 5 minutes had enjoyed theirfirst conversation in Mandarin!The Lower 3rd, as they are nowknown, move into spacious newpremises in the Skidelsky Buildingin June.

Promise fulfilledGeorge Weller is one of the 18 pupils on his way toOxford or Cambridge following this year’s record A-level results. The Kingsford Scholar from east Londonwas one of the first three pupils to earn a free place at

the college, in whatsome described as a‘social experiment’.After securing 4 Agrades he takes up hisplace to read NaturalSciences at EmmanuelCollege Cambridge.He will join 50 otherformer BrightonCollege pupilscurrently studying atOxbridge colleges.

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Oxford is the most populardestination for college leaversOxford University has consistently been the top destination forBrighton College leavers over the past three years:

1. Oxford 6. Exeter2. London (UCL) 7. Nottingham3. Bath 8. Bristol4. Cambridge 9. Loughborough5. Durham 10. Warwick

Other popular Russell Group universities for Brighton leaversinclude: Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Imperial,KCL, LSE), Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and Southampton.

Art School destinations include: Chelsea College of Art, LondonSchool of Fashion, St Martin’s and the Courtauld Institute.

New girls’ dayhouses opened byClare ConnorThe relocation of Williams and SeldonHouses was marked by their official re-opening by Old Brightonian and formerEngland cricket captain Clare ConnorOBE. Each of the two new houses providesspacious facilities at the heart of theschool. The Williams girls’ have alreadymade good use of their facilities and havebecome very adept table tennis players!

New Sixth Formgirls’ boardinghouse openedFormer Head Master John Leachand his wife, Rosamund, made awelcome return to the college toopen the new girls’ boarding wingthat takes their name. Collegeboarding numbers are at theirhighest since 1931 due to the risein popularity of weekly boardingamong families in London and theSouth East of England. Thecomfortable study bedrooms andspacious recreational areas mirrorthose to be found in the boys’houses which the Tatler magazinedescribed as “some of the smartest,most homely in England.”

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Skidelsky Building emergesbefore our eyesWork on the new Skidelsky Building is now well under wayand we look forward to the new Design Technology centre,spacious new classrooms for the English department and abright and airy common room for the Lower School, all ofwhich will open in 2010. The building is 950m2 compared tothe 330m2 building that it replaces.

Unveiled: A stunning new building for the Woolton QuadThe leading London architects, Allies & Morrison, have unveiled the next stage in the ambitious redevelopment plan for thecollege. It will contain superb new study and leisure facilities for the burgeoning boarding community and a new Sixth Form Café,senior common room and health centre, as well as new classrooms. Work is scheduled to commence in the summer of 2010.

Arts Week 2009The college’s annual celebration of the performing and visual arts was typicallyrich and varied. The Burstow Gallery hosted an extraordinary exhibition of workby pupils of all ages, and the Great Hall was the venue for a splendid SummerConcert. The Fenwick Garden provided the setting for performances of AMidsummer Night’s Dream, and In the Spotlight demonstrated the strength of danceat the college.

Out & About

Sixth Form pupils visited Auschwitz during their tripto Krakow

Pupils spent time teachingEnglish and assistingvolunteers at an orphanagein Romania and workedwith disabled young adultsin Ceziene

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The Chamber Choir visited Belgium, performing inGhent, Bruges, Blankenberg and also at the Last PostCeremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres.

Pupils visited China as part of the college’s link with theprestigious Tsinghua University School in Beijing. Thevisit allowed them to practise their language skills as wellas to experience staying with local people at their homes.

Shadow Minister joins College CouncilThe Rt Hon Francis Maude, the Member of Parliament for Horsham, Shadow Ministerfor the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has joined thecollege’s governing body. He was one of a number of governors who shadowed pupils for theday earlier this term. Joining him are Matthew Burgess, the Deputy Chief Executive of theIndependent Schools Council and Julia Aisbitt, a local JP and parent of two OldBrightonians - one of whom secured her place at Oxford this Summer. They eachprofessed to be exhausted but impressed by the end of their day at the college.

College hosts VolleyballChampionshipsThe college hosted the inaugural Public Schools’ BeachVolleyball Championships at Yellow Wave on Brightonseafront, only five minutes’ walk from the college. Publicschools from all over the country took part, with Brightonnarrowly defeated in a hotly contested final by the LeysSchool, Cambridge.

News in Brief• The Head Master joinsDebrett’s People of Today, a listof those judged to be the mostinfluential people in England. Hewas also singled out in the 2010Tatler Schools Guide as “forwardthinking, influential and knownfor moving things on”.

• This year’s FoundationDinner took place at the RoyalPavilion, on the 150thanniversary of the collegechapel. The glittering occasionwas attended by distinguished friends and benefactors of thecollege. They included Lord and Lady Skidelsky, Lord and LadyRenton, Lady Alexander, the Lord Lieutenant, the historianDavid Starkey, musicians David Gilmour and Gus Christie, theauthors Ellis Goodman and Polly Samson, the athlete DaleyThompson, the cricketers Clare Connor and Chris Adams, andno fewer than twenty-two prep school heads.

• Lord Skidelsky’s latest book about Keynes and theeconomic crisis, The Return of the Master, has receivedtremendously positive reviews and is to be translated into15 languages worldwide.

Poland

Romania

Belgium

China

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Brighton rugby: Harlequins & ScotlandRoss Chisholm, last year’s 1st XV captain, made his professional debutfor Harlequins against Connaught. Ross made the starting XV as full-back and will be hoping to be selected for the first GuinnessPremiership match of the season against Wasps next Saturday. OliverRichards (Upper 6th) and James Tyas (Upper 6th) have also made goodstarts to future rugby careers. Ollie was selected to play for Harlequinsat Twickenham alongside a number of England Internationals.Meanwhile, James Tyas represented Scotland in matches againstBelgium and France during a festival held in Holland.

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“Brighton College is an academy for cricket talent”

- Daily Telegraph, June 2009Whilst Matt Prior has been revelling in Ashes glory, current BrightonCollege 1st XI keeper-batsman, Adam Davies has reached a final trial for theEngland Under 19 squad. Also trialling for England at this level will be OldBrightonian Matthew Machan. Meanwhile, Georgia Adams and SofieCawley have been awarded Clare Connor Cricket Scholarships. BothGeorgia and Sofie have represented the senior county side this season andhave played their part in helping Sussex Under 17s reach the national semi-final of the Under 17 County Championships.

Big wins at start of rugby seasonHaving spent pre-season training at Loughborough University, thecollege rugby teams made an excellent start to the season. AgainstReigate all but one of the eight teams recorded victories and againstCranleigh all the sides acquitted themselves equally well with a 29-0 win for the 1st XV and victories for the Under 14 A, Under 14 B,Under 14 C and Under 14 D teams.

SportIn the pinkOld Brightonian, and former 1st XV Captain, OlliePhillips, the England 7s captain, staged a dramaticdebut for Europe's most glamorous club. He came offthe bench for Stade Francais to make a try, score onehimself and have a last-gasp effort ruled out for offsidein a 40-35 defeat of Montauban.

Hockey teamspursue County titlesThe girls’ hockey teams have high hopes ofwinning county titles this season after strongperformances in pre-season tournaments. All teams were unbeaten in the openingfixtures against Lancing College.

Four Old Brightoniansamong Ashes victorsMatt Prior finished the Ashes series as England's second highest run-scorer, secondonly to Andrew Strauss. He joined fellow Old Brightonians Holly Colvin, Sarah

Taylor and Laura Marshin the 2009 AshesBrighton College Rollof Honour. All threegirls played their partin ensuring that theEngland women's teamretained the Ashes inJuly, won for the firsttime in 42 years whenled by another OldBrightonian, ClareConnor.

Holly Colvin, Laura Marsh and Sarah Taylor Matt Prior

Ross Chisholm

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Spelling It OutIn The Times Spelling Bee competition, BCPS wonfirst the local heat and then the regional heat withthe top score out of around 800 schools. In thenational final in London the team ended a veryrespectable 7th. Elliott Harman won the ‘LastSpeller Standing’ contest. The Times also publishedan interview with head of English, Bobbie Granville,and she explained how in an age where childrenspend so much time texting and MSN messaging, itwas more important than ever that pupils weretrained to spell properly.

Fiddling AboutTravelling back to Tsarist Russia in1905, Year 6 performed apassionate and skilful rendition ofthe musical Fiddler on the Roof.As well as exceptional acting, thechoreography was outstandingwith sequences honouring bothRussian and Jewish dancing. Thevocal talents of the pupils stoodout with beautiful and tear-jerkingperformances of songs such as‘Sunrise Sunset’, ‘Far From theHome I Love’ and ‘Anatevka’.Though a challenging choice forthis age group, the pupils farexceeded the high expectationsand gave a powerful and engagingperformance of this classic tale.

Rounding itAll UpThe U 11 Rounders playerscapped an excellent season bywinning the IAPS regionaltournament held at HolmewoodHouse, to become S.E. EnglandPrep School champions. Havingwon their section, the girls drewwith Junior Kings in the semi-final but then won the roundersequivalent of a ‘penalty shoot-out’before beating Rose Hill in thefinal. This means that the girlshold the prep school regional titlesfor both netball and rounders.

SummingUpWith a quarter of amillion entries, aimedat the brightest pupilsin Years 7 and 8country-wide, BCPSmathematiciansproduced trulyexceptional results inthe annual UnitedKingdom Junior MathsChallenge. Only 6%of all entrants receivethe coveted gold award,among them, 19 BCPSpupils.

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Nurturing Artistic TalentThe art produced by such young children never failsto astound. Last April a piece of every pupil’s artworkwas professionally mounted, framed and exhibited forparents and friends to enjoy. The children’s artisticabilities are nurtured from the age of 4 under theguidance of an extremely talented specialist art teacherwho says “whatever their academic ability each child iscapable of enjoying some media of art, where there isno right or wrong and no-one ever fails”.

Roll over Beethoven- the Pre-Prep hadsomething bettergoing on...In May, the Hall was alive with the sound ofmusic at Years 2 & 3’s annual instrumentalconcert. Players and singers aged 6 to 8 wowedthe audience with their stunning array ofpieces and instruments, which included fifesand trumpets along with the usual violins,‘cellos and guitars.

Mind the Gap!Year 3 performed the musical “Mind the Gap”, written by the Pre-Prep’sextremely talented music teacher, at the end of term. It was an ambitiousundertaking for 7 and 8 year olds but they gave two fantastically polishedperformances.

Learning is Fun!Visitors to the Pre-Prep on Topic Day expecting tosee children in school uniform were in for a surprise.There were children dressed as mini-beasts, explorers,Victorians, World War 2 evacuees and dinosaurs!These were some of the topics various year groupshad been learning about. What better way to bringlearning to life than to dress up and pretend?

These themes were extended to Sports Day wherethe Victorians (Year 1) raced, balancing bean bagson their heads, World War 2 evacuees (Year 3)performed sack and 3-legged races, and dinosaurs(Year 2) rolled giant eggs.

EverySecondCounts!“Time” was the themeof the Summer Showinvolving every girl andboy in the school from age3 to age 8. Pre-Reception,dressed as mice in thenight, counted the chimesof the hall clock, whilstYear 1 enamouredaudiences with theirbeautifully controlled part-singing of the countingsong “Inchworm”. Mumsand Dads (and grandmasand grandpas) particularlyenjoyed Year 2’s rendition of Lennon & McCartney’s “When I’m 64”with the children dressed and acting age-appropriately!

“A class act in every way”Daily Telegraph, June 2009

An invitation to Open Mornings on:Saturday, 14 November 2009 (Sixth Form)

Saturday, 30th January 2010 (Pre-Prep and Prep Schools)Saturday, 6th February 2010 (Entry at 11+, 13+ and 16+)

Contact Admissions Office on 01273-704201/2www.brightoncollege.org.uk