http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/The latest headlines and articles from Harrow School.(c) 2009,Harrow School . All rights reserved.5Barnaby Lenon is retiring from Harrow in August 2011 after twelve years of outstanding service as Head Master. The Governors have chosen as his successor Mr James Hawkins of Norwich School.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=582010-04-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanLalit Bose and Angus Gillams came back from a perilous position of 2 games to 1 down and 12-11 down in the 4th game of the Final to win the Peter Gray Cup (the Junior Colts Public Schools Doubles) by 3 games to 2. This is Lalit's second success, havihttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=572010-04-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanMatthew Zhao, Clement Woo, Takehiro Fujita and Jack Hou finished 6th out of 70 schools who were Regional Finals winners in the National Final of the of the National Senior Team Maths Competition. Nearly 1000 schools took part nationwide.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=562010-04-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThree wins for Haileybury in their four a2om Cup matches with Tonbridge emphasised the strength of Haileybury this year but also handed all four a2om Cups to Harrow. This clean sweep of the trophies is the first time that any school has achieved thishttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=542010-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow has retained the Bath Cup title it won in 2009, and came second in the Otter Cup, dispelling poolside rumours that the departure of the Barrett twins had left behind a weakened team.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=532010-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow achieved a record haul in the first round of this year's Chemistry Olympiad. Four boys achieved Gold certificates, nine boys got Silver certificates, and seven boys got Bronze. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=522010-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow won their second Roehampton title with a nailbiting victory in the Final against Eton. The last win was in 2006 but in many ways this was more impressive because Harrow were without their number one player, Angus Gillams.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=512010-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanA team of Harrow’s top mathematicians have made it to the National Final of the Senior Team Maths Competition to be held in London in early February.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=502010-01-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanTop of the Bench is a national competition run by the RSC for 14-16 year old students. The Harrow team won its regional heat against twenty schools from Middlesex and the Chilterns and is heading for the national Finals in March.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=492009-02-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanA new CD from Harrow’s Music department went on sale at the beginning of November. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols features the Harrow School Chapel Choir and the Brass Ensemble in a programme of traditional readings and carols for Christmas.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=482009-02-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanEdexcel have accredited a new qualification devised by Harrow School, The Harrow Diploma. The Diploma provides an over-arching qualification which goes further than any existing UK qualification to recognise the breadth of education offered in most ihttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=472009-02-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Harrow family of schools is set to welcome a new member in 2012, with the launch of Hong Kong’s first international boarding school. Harrow International (Hong Kong) has won a license from the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong government to ophttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=462009-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanToday’s A-level results reveal that 73% of A-level examinations taken by Harrovians were awarded A grades. Overall, 527 A-level examinations were taken by 153 Harrow School sixth formers, with the School achieving 73% A grades. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=452009-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow School has won the 2009 Good Schools Guide GCSE Award for Boys taking D&T Engineering at GCSE at an English Independent School.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=442009-06-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanOne of Harrow's Art teachers, Mr Dan Llewellyn Hall, has been selected as a finalist in the BP Portrait Award competition this year. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=432009-05-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanAlan Kim, Rafi Coleman and Cheman Cheung were amongst the winning finalists of the 2009 National Chamber Music Festival for Schools, playing Shostakovich’s Trio no. 2.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=422009-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow's swimmers last won the Bath Cup in 1913. Nearly a hundred years later, they have achieved the Silver Medal in the Otter Cup, and taken the Bath Cup with a record-breaking swim against strong competition.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=412009-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow’s reputation as a growing force in independent schools’ soccer was further enhanced when the 1st XI lifted the Charles Alcock Cup in early March. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=402009-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow's twelfth boarding house gets funding, name and new House Master. Construction has started on the new House, to be called Lyon's, and it will open in 2010 with 35 boys.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=392009-03-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Verney Prize for Argument was won by Sam Hardy (Druries). The Glees and Twelves (House Singing) Competition was won by The Knoll (Glee) and Druries (Twelve). In the Cock House rugby finals Moretons beat Elmfield. In the House Rugby Sevens Morehttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=382008-02-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow’s mathematicians achieved record results this year in the national Mathematics Challenge.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=372008-01-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanA risky debating strategy brings victory for Harrow's A team debators in the London Schools' Debating Competition 2008http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=362008-01-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow's 2008 value-added research results exceed expectations and put the School in the number 9 position at GCSE and in the top 15% for A-level.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=35Kirsty ShanahanJulia Tyler, Harrow's Domestic Bursar accepted an award on behalf of her staff at the Tatler Schools Guide Awards this week.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=34Kirsty ShanahanIn the summer holidays thirteen Harrow School boys undertook a "Harrow Challenge" in Costa Rica, Central America. The aim of the Harrow Challenge was very simple: to build a bridge fifty metres long over a river. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=322008-09-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanOver the summer, the largest football tournament in the world, the Gothia Cup, took place in Gothenburg. Established in 1975, the Gothia Cup is the most well-known youth soccer tournament in the world.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=312008-09-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe public exam results this year were outstanding. At GCSE the A* grade rose to a record 51%. Twenty-four boys achieved ten or more A* grades and 92 obtained ten or more A*/A grades.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=332008-09-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow’s athletes are really having an impact on the school and regional circuit.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=292008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanClassic FM Magazine’s Instrumental Disc of the Month for June is Shostakovich’s Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 and Piano Quintet performed by the London Mozart Trio and Chamber Ensemble. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=282008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanOver two hundred Harrow boys from the Fifth Form, Removes and Shells entered the UKMT Intermediate Mathematics Challenge. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=272008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow’s swimmers have just completed another phenomenal year of national competitions and galas against local schools with thirteen wins out of thirteen on the local circuit.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=262008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Kelsey Award has been set up in memory of Old Harrovian Mr Derek Kelsey who died in July 2006, just before his 99th birthday. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=252008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanField Day is an annual event at Harrow in which Masters take groups of boys on expeditions outside School. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=242008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThis year Harrow took two teams to the annual Wellington Relays cross-country competition for teams of five runners. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=232008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThis year’s Rayleigh Lecture was given by Lord May, Professor of Zoology at Oxford University, a distinguished speaker who is a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government and former President of the Royal Society.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=222008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanHarrow fills the Royal Albert Hall with parents, alumni and staff to sing songs together.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=212008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty Shanahan25 achieved Gold certificates with 28 winning Silver and 16 receiving Bronze. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=202008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Harrow Senior Swimming team, Kouji Urata, Kyle Barrett, Connor Barrett, Ben Lam and Henry Brewster, won Gold in both the Freestyle and Medley Relays at the South East England Relay Championships. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=192008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanOctober’s Ofsted Inspection of the boarding and pastoral facilities at Harrow produced a very positive verdicthttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=182008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Harrow Prize has been awarded to boys in the Upper Sixth who have made an all-round contribution at a high level during their time at Harrowhttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=152008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanA-level results this year are the best ever at Harrow.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=122008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThree of Harrow’s finest mathematicians descended on Schroder’s Bank in Westminster this term. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=102008-08-01T00:00:00Gavin DaviesOctober's offsted inspection - of the boarding and pastoral facilties at Harrowhttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=72008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe new Italian ice cream making machine in the dining hall is a great hit with boys.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=172008-08-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanAll year 10 (Remove) boys have been given a networked computer in their rooms. This successful programme will be extended to other year groups next year.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=162008-07-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanBen Lam (silver medal) and Simon Kim (bronze medal) were awarded distinctions and prizes in their Olympiad categories.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=82008-06-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe Leaf Schools refurbishment is nearing completion as a new art gallery and a suite of painting and drawing studios.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=132008-06-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThirty boys so far have received offers from Oxford and Cambridge this year.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=12008-06-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe members of Harrow's Under 15 cello quartet, Rafi Colman, Joon Kwon, Felix Lashmar and Robert Stone, and the members of the Under 19 String quartethttp://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=112008-06-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanIt's the oldest marine adventure in the world. It was already ancient history when Aristotle and Socrates were in the cradle. http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=142008-05-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanThe annual Careers Convention took place in the Shepherd Churchill recently, attracting large numbers of Fifth and Sixth Form Harrovians keen to learn about the world of work.http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=92008-04-01T00:00:00Kirsty ShanahanIn October eight inspectors from the Independent Schools Inspectorate visited Harrow. Their report was extremely positive across all areas, and concluded that Harrow has "no major weaknesses" and a "relatively minor need for improvement".http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news/?id=62008-03-01T00:00:00Gavin Davies