School news

Charterhouse continues to work hard to prepare our pupils for higher education and the careers that lie ahead of them. Here is a round-up of current initiatives

Life beyond School

In addition to strong academic studies, we place an emphasis on all pupils developing essential skills to prepare them for life after Charterhouse. This activity includes: • Monthly newsletters to make sure all parents and pupils are informed about HE&C news, events and opportunities. This includes upcoming open days, timely careers and work experience opportunities, links to careers and guidance directories. • To support the monthly newsletter, seven guides have been produced to date that explore making applications to Oxbridge, London universities, US universities, medical degrees, degree apprenticeships, professional qualifications and work experience opportunities. All are available on the HE&C pages on the School website. This website section also includes a link to our Twitter feed and everything else we publish. • Career Speed Networking events are arranged every term. This

is a fantastic way for pupils to learn about different careers and meet professionals who can offer career guidance and share their knowledge and experience. • Career Advice Sessions are arranged to offer careers advice and CV and cover letter writing skills. All Fifths and Specialists are encouraged to have an up-todate CV and, ideally, a draft cover letter, and they can also arrange individual sessions with the team.

Producing a CV at this stage often highlights any gaps in the skills that employers are looking for, such as leadership, teamwork and communication, and means that pupils have time whilst still at Charterhouse to take part in activities and societies to start developing them. • Guest speakers and visits have also proved popular for this academic year, which has an entrepreneurial theme to it, in line with the launch of the new elective – the Business and

Entrepreneurship Programme.

Guest speakers and trips so far have included:

Ian James, the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Surrey and Surrey Business School. He was joined by Dr Mitra Najafi, the CEO of Pplus Products, a new business that has developed one of the most useful natural treatments to speed up healing and rejuvenation in the body using the client’s own blood plasma.

Kathy Warden, the CEO (UK & Europe) of Northrop Grumman, came to talk about a fascinating range of topics from global defence and cyber security, to supplying the space station and modern warfare.

A trip to the7stars media agency

The UK’s largest independent media agency gave presentations to the pupils on various media channels, and the pupils had to put together and pitch the most suitable media brief for a Papa John’s pizza campaign.

Far left: Pupils put together their pitches at the7stars media agency as part of the Business and Entrepreneurship Programme. Left: Pupils listen to a talk at Chicago Booth

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

THE MOST POPULAR CHOICES OF UNIVERSITY FOR 2019 ENTRY WERE:

1. UCL 2. Exeter 3. Durham 4. Bristol 5. KCL

2018:

1. Bristol 2. Exeter 3. UCL 4. Imperial 5. Durham

New Elective: Business and Entrepreneurship Programme

OQ2019 saw the launch of the new elective module now available to 1YS in addition to their three A-level choices. Chris Mahon, Director of the MBA programme at Surrey Business School, will be contributing to the programme and running several sessions, culminating with the pupils presenting a business idea at Surrey Business School.

WHAT ARE WE STUDYING?

THE MOST POPULAR CHOICES OF DEGREE SUBJECT FOR 2019 WERE:

1. History 2. Biochemistry, Biology,

Biomedical, Chemical Sciences 3. Finance and Business 4. Politics 5. Economics/Sociology,

Anthropology, Social Sciences

2018:

1. = Business Studies 1. = History 3. Engineering 4. Economics

5. Physical Science

The first half of the programme will teach pupils key skills such as collaboration, innovation, the importance of failure and developing prototypes to reach a goal. The second half of the programme puts these skills into practice with small groups working together to develop a new product based around the United Nations sustainable development goals. This product will then be pitched to Surrey Business School. b

HEADING OVERSEAS…

In 2019, a total of 13 pupils headed to the US to study, with four attending NYU. A further three pupils headed to Europe to study in Brussels and the Netherlands. One pupil was accepted onto the World Bachelor in Business (WBB) Programme. This in itself is quite an achievement as only 50 students from across the globe are selected for the programme. It’s a unique four-year programme where each year is spent in a different location, spanning three continents. The first year is in Los Angeles.

This year, the team at Charterhouse also ran a European Universities fair and a US Panel event, which were attended by a variety of universities and institutions. Closer to home, the London universities of Imperial, LSE, KCL and UCL all came to talk to the pupils about applying and studying in London. It was such a success with the students that this will be repeated next year.

Ringing the musical changes

Charterhouse’s tradition of musical excellence continues with outstanding performances and a flurry of fresh ideas

Music at Charterhouse continues to be a major part of Carthusian life with more opportunities than ever for our pupils to get involved. The department strives to cater for the needs and desires of a wide range of musicians in the School community. It has also gone through a lot of change recently, in terms of both its personnel and its outlook for the next few years. There are more School ensembles being created, a fresh vision for Music IT and exciting future building plans. Such excellence and potential in all our pupils continues to create a vast range of wonderful music-making here at Charterhouse. Here are some of the things we’ve been up to.

Rule Britannia!

In conjunction with the organisers of Artifex, the Music Department was delighted to be able to host our inaugural Proms in the Park event as the grand finale of our School Arts festival. An orchestra comprising current Carthusians and musicians from throughout the School community performed pieces from many beloved films as well as favourites from the Last Night of the Proms. The sun shone and the music flowed from the dome in this special Glyndebourne-style event.

House Singing

OQ2019 saw a different format to House Singing in that every girls’ and boys’ House, and hence every member of the School, took to the stage. Judged by Emily Dickens, a former member of the acclaimed a cappella octet Voces8, Chetwynd took the top spot, closely followed by Lockites and Gownboys. A wonderful win for our new all-girls’ House.

Quarter Concerts and Evening Recitals

There is a wide array of concerts at Charterhouse, from our informal 10-minute Quarter Concerts, available to all musicians whatever their stage, to our more formal Evening Recitals. Last year the latter included a diverse group of individuals from an outstanding British-born Chinese pianist whose talents defy her age (only 11 years old!), to our wonderful Scholars – particularly well done to those pupils new to the School such as Jago Brazier (R), Vladimir Margarint (S) and Elvin Lam (H), and also the winners of our Piano Prizes for OQ2019, including Adrian Choy (L) and Antonio Zhang (H).

Music in the Community - singing at Eastlake nursing home

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Owen Chan (S) has secured an organ scholarship to Merton College,

Oxford. • Henry Le Feber Robertson (S), Aoife Mulligan Smith (Su), Benedict

Wong (G) and Gabriel Brown (G) have all been offered Choral

Scholarships to their Oxbridge colleges. • Michael Huang (G) stole the show at this year’s Piano Prizes. Full of poise, maturity and excitement, he was a deserved winner. • Edward Wilmouth (G) submitted a piece of music he had composed for the BBC Inspire Competition over the summer and made the shortlist.

The Changing Face of Music

The new Elective Programme for the Specialists started in OQ2019, giving pupils exposure to the world of music technology with our brand new Mac Suite. Supported by the thriving Music Production Society, led by Louis Renault (R), the pupils have been exploring GarageBand and Logic Pro, among other software, to expand their horizons and try new methods of composition. The Music Production Society predates the Electives, having officially started in 2017, and demonstrates a strong

interest among pupils to explore the interaction between studio equipment and live instruments. b

Lack of Talent

The ever-popular Lack of Talent revealed a vast diversity of musical performances over the three nights. There were some excellent cover versions of classic rock and pop songs, above left, as well as a wonderful number entitled ‘Just a Hug’ written by Louis Thomson (S), above right.

We’ve enjoyed another fantastic year of sport with plenty of opportunities for the boys and girls to get involved in a wide variety of activities

BOYS' FOOTBALL

2019’s Boodles ISFA Cup campaign saw a first-round bye and a comfortable 4–0 home win against Taunton School before a hard draw in the third round for the Carthusians with the squad facing the side who had won the HUDL League for the last two years. It was a valiant attempt but the campaign ended in round three of the knockouts, with a 2–1 loss to Repton. There were some notable performances across all the teams for the year with the U15s reaching the fourth round of the U15 ISFA Cup, and the U16s performing well with a strong close to their season. The 14A team also showed huge promise and were winners of the Elgin League with a notable 5–0 win over Eton College.

And let’s not forget the traditional Pupils vs Staff football match, which saw the monitors just inch ahead of Brooke Hall to win on sudden death penalties.

GIRLS' FOOTBALL

Our two girls’ football teams are both doing well. The 1st XI Team, captained by Isla Horscroft (F), reached the semi-finals of the ISFA sevens tournament at the start of OQ2019 with the majority of fixtures occurring in early 2020. Chetwynd won Inter-house football in LQ2019.

BOYS' HOCKEY

The boys’ 1st XI Team won the England Hockey Tier 2 National Championship Final beating Bedford on penalty strokes in May 2019. The nail-biting final saw an excellent goal by Raph Boulanger (P19) in the first half, and brilliant goalkeeping from Elliot Clarke (W19). In November 2019, the 1st XI team won the Active Surrey sports award for Youth Team of the Year 2019.

GIRLS' HOCKEY

There are three girls’ hockey teams with 40 girls in total playing in regular fixtures every week. The 1st Team is captained by Mattie Monteforte (Su). The first interhouse girls’ hockey was won by Chetwynd.

CRICKET

The 1st XI boys’ cricket team had an impressive start to their season enjoying wins over Radley, Cranleigh and Hurst. Success continued with both the 1st and 2nd XIs winning against the OCs on Carthusian Day and victory for the 1sts over Westminster, Lord Wandsworth, Free Forresters and Winchester. A very successful season for the team, captained by Ross Richardson (F19). Elsewhere, after a formidable win over Eton College, the U14s progressed to the quarter finals of the Surrey Schools 20/20 knockout cup competition where, unfortunately, they fell to King’s College School.

NETBALL

Five teams play regular netball fixtures, with a mid-season tour to the United Arab Emirates providing an opportunity to train intensively, play other schools and develop cohesion.

SHOOTING

Last year was an extremely successful and exciting year for our shooting team with 15 trophies won! These consisted of: • The CCRS .22 Eley Competition (formerly the Green Howards

Country Life Trophy, last won by

Charterhouse in 1939). Captained by Henry Waldern (V), the team excelled in this difficult four-phase competition. Alex Zu Sayn-

Wittgenstein-Sayn (G) did not drop any points in the first three phases, and the team were very ably led through the ‘landscape’ phase by James Ingham (S), resulting in a victory we have sought for many years. • We also went on to win The

Jeudwine Cup (service rifle),

The Earl Roberts (service rifle) and The Newcombe Cup (air rifle) in the Cadet Council for Rifle

Shooting Commonwealth Matches. • In Target Rifle, we started by winning The Arthur Clarke long range match. At the schools meeting, we won The Queen’s

Regimental cup as the best school in Kent/Surrey/ Sussex. Max

Gerhardt (H) won The Oratory

School Challenge Cup as top scorer in the Marling and Marlborough

Service Rifle matches, and when this was added to his Target Rifle scores he was announced as The

NRA Cadet Champion at Arms 2019. Orlando Everitt (g) won The

Financial Times Trophy in the GP rifle match, and he was the top under 16 Cadet in the Ashburton bringing home The Silenta Trophy. • At the Brigade CADSAM in

September, Charterhouse won every prize available: The Best

CCF, The Falling Plates and Top

Team overall. Alex Zu Sayn-

Wittgenstein-Sayn was the top over 16 Shot and Nick Shutt (D) the top under 16.

FIVES

The game continues to enjoy a healthy interest at all levels. The Yearlings’ Tournament is under way, run by Ambrose Witherspoon (B) and Jamie Marmion (B), and, with 16 yearlings having chosen the sport, we have a good chance in the nationals this year at that level.

The senior first pair beat Eton but just lost to Harrow (two of the favourites for 2019/20). Particular mention should go to Hector Platt (B) for his prowess in the game. Meanwhile, thanks must go to Jonny Nelmes (BH16-) for his boundless enthusiasm for the game at all levels, and to Oliver O’Callaghan-Brown, a parent of a former pupil, who has done so much to develop the senior players within the club as coach and mentor.

LACROSSE

There is currently one lacrosse team which plays fortnightly, captained by Sophie Gudgeon (Su). They have developed well as a squad and achieved success playing local rival schools. b

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

James Ingham (S) was selected as a member of the successful United Kingdom Cadet Target Rifle Team to tour and compete in Jersey in the summer and is trying out for a place in the British Cadet Rifle Team (Athelings) 2020 to go to Canada.

Charlie Howard (G) came second overall in the Target Sprint competition during the schools meeting at Bisley. He was called forward to the National Finals in Bristol in October where he came fifth overall.

Alex O’Callaghan-Brown (R19)

won the English Schools U19 400mH last summer, and was the ‘best athlete’ at the Eton Lord Burghley trophy match in May 2019.

Liv Sinnes (F) took third place at the HMC Golf Singles at The Royal Berkshire.

Toby Berry (g) attended the Public Schools Fencing Championships in March 2019. He finished as a runner up in the boys’ junior épée competition having fought all the way to the final out of 80 first round fencers.

Ollie Sheen (W) spearheaded the bowling attack helping Surrey U17s Cricket to become National Champions.

Claudia Cooper (Su) came sixth in a national showjumping competition in November 2019.

Charlie Goutkin-Smith (S)

represented the ISFA U14 National Football Squad in February 2019.

Deaths notified since 2019

With sadness, Charterhouse reports the passing of the following Old Carthusians, notified since April 2019. OCs are listed chronologically according to their year of leaving

Pre 1940

R31 PEARSON, General Sir Thomas aged 105 on 15 December 2019 S38 HADFIELD, Robert aged 98 on 21 May 2019 g38 McINTOSH, Sir Ronald aged 99 on 1 April 2019 L39 CUNNINGHAM, Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh aged 97 on 12 September 2019 V39 DUDLEY, Robert aged 98 on 3 May 2019

1940s

W40 BERNERS-LEE, Conway aged 97 on 1 February 2019 R40 LACY-THOMPSON, Charles aged 95 on 19 February 2018 V40 SEATON, Dr Derek aged 96 on 4 June 2019 V40 SOWREY, Air Marshal Sir Frederick aged 96 on 28 July 2019 H41 GARRETT, Stephen aged 96 on 2 December 2019 B41 STEWARDSON, John aged 95 on 10 May 2019 V42 BENDIT, John aged 94 on 26 April 2019 H42 HARDING, Charles aged 95 on 24 August 2019 V42 MEREDITH, Roger aged 93 in October 2018 D42 NEILD, Professor Robert aged 94 on 18 December 2018 S42 PAYNE, Donald aged 94 on 22 August 2018 S43 CAVE-BROWNE, Major Patrick aged 93 on 5 February 2019 H43 HEYWORTH, John aged 92 on 11 June 2018 H43 MYGIND, Sidney aged 93 on 21 June 2018 H43 STRINGER, Michael aged 93 in August 2018 D43 WHITTLE, Glynn aged 92 on 12 February 2019 D44 ASHLEY, John aged 93 on 22 June 2019 V44 DARVALL, Peter aged 93 on 5 November 2019

H44 POWELL, Brigadier George aged 93 on 2 April 2019 R44 THOMPSON, Guy aged 92 on 1 October 2019 G45 BLAKE, Martin aged 92 on 27 June 2019 G45 GARLAND, T. Rex aged 91 on 30 January 2020 D45 JORY, Michel aged 92 on 17 July 2019 S45 LIND, Peter aged 90 on 27 March 2019 g45 McCONNEL, Adrian aged 90 on 10 September 2019 H45 PARSONS, Stiven aged 91 on 24 June 2019 G46 FERREIRA, Dr Chris aged 87 on 2 August 2019 S46 HUNT, Roger aged 91 on 1 September 2019 R46 PRICE, Bernard aged 91 on 11 May 2019 R46 VINE, Paul aged 91 on 7 April 2019 V47 DARBY, John aged 89 on 24 October 2019 V47 PERRIN, John aged 88 on 10 January 2019 g47 REMINGTON, Derek aged 90 on 24 May 2019 W47 SHOTTER, John aged 88 on 9 July 2018 V47 VALE, John aged 89 in February 2019 g47 WHITE, Gerald aged 90 on 5 April 2019 W47 WINTER, Patrick aged 90 on 17 August 2019 H48 HALFORD, Timothy aged 89 on 15 September 2018 H48 JONES, G Bruce aged 88 on 9 September 2019 g48 KITSON, Sir Timothy aged 88 on 18 May 2019 G48 MILLAR, David aged 89 on 9 September 2019 R48 PELLY, Peter aged 87 on 11 September 2018 R48 WHITELEY, Dr Jervis aged 89 in February 2019 W49 BROOKE, David aged 87 on 30 April 2019 L49 CELLAN JONES, James aged 88 on 30 August 2019 H49 DICKSON, Dr Michael aged 85 on 28 March 2018 H49 FATHERS, Antony aged 87 on 7 January 2019 D49 JORY, Gerald aged 89 in June 2019

1950s

L50 ASHWORTH, Kenneth aged 87 on 10 April 2019 B50 ROYLE, John aged 86 on 19 October 2019 V50 TURNER, Peter aged 86 on 16 July 2019 H51 EVANS, John aged 85 in April 2019 L51 GAUNTLETT, Roland aged 86 on 28 December 2019 D51 MACKWOOD, Patrick aged 86 on 2 June 2019 H51 STEVENSON, Samuel aged 86 on 22 January 2020 V52 COX, Edward aged 84 on 23 March 2019 W52 ELLIS, Robert aged 83 on 9 November 2019 H52 HODSON, Christopher aged 84 on 17 September 2018 G52 LIGHTBODY, Peter aged 85 on 29 December 2019 H52 McALPINE, Sir William aged 82 on 4 March 2018 G52 SALWEY, Squadron Leader Christopher aged 85 on 16 August 2019 g52 YATES, Dr David aged 84 on 20 April 2019 R53 CURTIS, The Revd Peter aged 83 on 30 July 2019 H53 EVANS, Dr David aged 84 on 17 November 2019 B53 BERG, John aged 83 in January 2020 L54 DENT, Michael aged 80 on 12 April 2019 G54 WILKINSON, Christopher aged 84 on 9 January 2020 L55 ABBOT-ANDERSON, Alan aged 80 on 20 March 2018 D55 BONHAM-CARTER, Peter aged 82 on 19 June 2019 B55 BOORD, Antony aged 79 on 22 March 2018 R55 HILLS, The Revd Richard aged 82 on 10 May 2019 D55 LANGLANDS, Dr James aged 82, in February 2020 L55 MACE, The Revd David aged 82 in March 2019 B56 GRAHAM, Martin aged 81 on 8 November 2019 g57 CARLTON, Anthony aged 79 in 2019 B57 CLARK HUTCHISON, George aged 80 in 2019 V57 HANSELL, Anthony aged 80 on 24 September 2018 L57 LENAGHAN, Brian aged 79 on 26 December 2019 H57 MASON, Nicholas aged 80 on 22 December 2019 g58 EVANS, Rodney aged 79 on 6 August 2019

1960s

L61 CATES, Armel aged 75 on 22 April 2019 R62 de GRUNWALD, Nicholas aged 74 on 17 August 2019 H61 HENSON, Nicky aged 74 on 16 December 2019 D66 KIRKE-SMITH, David aged 71 on 11 January 2019 R68 WESTENDARP, Charles aged 68 on 11 April 2019

1970s

D70 S71 L73 R74 V75 L79

SLINGER, John aged 66 on 5 August 2019 SEDGWICK, Peter aged 66 on 7 July 2019 CATTERWELL, Graham aged 64 on 18 November 2019 SPOONER, Timothy (TJ) aged 63 on 2 December 2019 LUCAS, Annabel aged 61 on 4 March 2019 BIRKETT, Richard aged 56 on 30 October 2018

1990s

S91

SUTTON, Lescon aged 47 on 28 August 2019

BROOKE HALL

ATTENBOROUGH, Peter aged 81, Headmaster 1982 -1993 on 19 February 2020 ARMSTRONG, Dr Matthew aged 48, BH 2003-2014 on 11 August 2019 FREAKE, Brian aged 93, BH 1968-1986 on 13 January 2018 GILBART-SMITH, Cary aged 75, BH1966-2004 on 26 December 2019

GOVERNING BODY

LAUGHTON, Sir Anthony aged 92, GB 1981-2000 on 27 September 2019

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• OC Art Society • OC Football Club • OC Golfing Society • OC Media & Literary Society • OC Racing Society • OC Lacrosse Club • OC Technology Society • OC Lawn Tennis • OC Swimming & Water Polo • Old Carthusiasts • OC Fencing Club • Charterhouse Friars Cricket • OC Yacht Club • OC Property Club • OC Rifle Club • OC Real Tennis • OC Fives Club • OC Motorcycle Club • OC Royal Marines • OC Russia and CIS • OC Basketball • OC Netball • OC Livery