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HEADMASTER'S BLOG

We hope you enjoy reading these weekly blog posts by our Headmaster, Mr Richard Murray.

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May 2025

  • Senior School Awards for 2025

    Published 23/05/25

    We are delighted to be able to announce our Senior School awards for this year. They are as follows:

    • Hugo Branderhorst, Music Scholarship, St Edward’s School, Oxford
    • Russell Xiao, Music Scholarship, Abingdon School
    • Splendour Adeboga, Music Exhibition, Harrow School
    • Trust Tiyapairat, Music Exhibition, Eton College
    • Troy Buttimer, Golf Scholarship, Harrow School
    • Trust Tiyapairat, King’s Scholarship, Eton College

    These are a tremendous set of awards at some very serious schools and encompass three different types of scholarships.

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  • CCCS welcomes Head of Music from St Paul's School

    Published 16/05/25

    I’m still on a high! I have just spent the afternoon in the Cathedral at the House Music Competition. Our adjudicator was the excellent Mr Wilderspin, Head of Music at St Paul’s School in West London. He spoke about each individual finalist with great insight, and warmth, deploying humour wonderfully.

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  • We’re in! We have the keys to our new Pavilion!

    Published 09/05/25

    I was very touched by the pupils’ attitude towards V.E. Day. Given that this happened 80 years ago, it cannot have meant very much personally to any of the pupils. And yet almost all of them arrived, wearing red, white and blue, and in our assembly, Mr. Harrison gave a moving summary of what VE Day meant.

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  • Getting involved with the world around us

    Published 02/05/25

    The extraordinary 19 Century Oxford poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, in a sonnet entitled Spring, wrote:

     “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring

    When weeds in wheels grow long and lovely and lush.”

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May 2025