News & Diary
Winchester Weekly – 2nd September 2025
From the Second Master
Weekend Sign-out
WEEKEND ARRANGEMENTS FOR BOARDERS (6 & 7 September 2025)
Details for this weekend can be found below. Please note that Junior Part (1st year) pupils will remain in school this weekend to complete their induction activities and attend the Societies Fair.
Please access the Parent Portal via the link below to inform us of your child’s plans for this weekend by 23:00 on Thursday 4 September. Log in, select ‘Interactive Forms’ and ‘Weekend Sign-out’ to complete the form.
Short Roll for new parents
If you didn’t manage to pick up a copy of Short Roll from the Boarding House at the weekend, please email Catherine Coxon ([email protected]) to obtain a copy.
To access these events, please ensure that you are a registered user of the Winchester College Society website, and are logged in.
Coffee – Winchester – 26 September (new parents)
Are you a new parent to Winchester College? If so, we would like to invite you to join us for coffee before the first exeat of the school year on 26 September. It will be held in Musã at 12pm. We look forward to meeting you.
Drinks combined – (all parents)
Parents are invited by Winchester College Society to join us for drinks at either New Hall, Winchester on Thursday 16 October or at the Cavalry and Guards Club, London on Thursday 12 February. We are delighted that the Headmaster will be joining us at both events and is looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Futures Fair – 15 November (VIth book, but comms to OWs/Parents to hear from specific industries)
Futures Fair will be held on the evening of Saturday 15 November, from 6:00PM – 8:00PM. We would love to hear from any parents or Old Wykehamists who are happy to talk about their own careers or the sectors they work in to VI Book pupils.
We are looking for expertise from all sectors, but if you have experience in Humanities, Languages, Geography, Psychology, Art, Scientific Research or are an Entrepreneur, we’d love to hear from you.
If you are also able to borrow any marketing materials from your employer that would add to the sense of occasion.
Parents Quiz – (all parents)
Our Parents Quiz returns for 2026 on Friday 27 February. Gather your teams and get ready to buy your tickets for an evening that promises to test your general knowledge.
Yuriy Evdokimov, a current parent is back by popular demand and will host the evening.
The tickets are sold by table, which seat 10 people each and the cost includes your food and drink for the evening.
Save the Date. More information to follow.
Parents are very welcome to join us for College events. Upcoming events, including the Autumn Lecture Series (link below) are typically highlighted in the Winchester Weekly newsletter.
One such talk will be with the Rt. Honourable Andrew Mitchell, MP, the former cabinet minister and current Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield.
We were delighted to welcome our new scholars and their families this weekend as they were formally admitted into the College.
For parents of scholars, photos from the ceremony can be accessed via the link below. An email with the password has been sent out separately.
Prints can be ordered directly from photographer, Jim Pascoe.
Over the summer break, 16 Wykehamists travelled to Philadelphia, USA for a soccer tour.
During the tour they took part in the StreetSoccer USA tournament, which saw both the U16 & U19 teams make it to the finals, where they faced off against all-star select teams.
The U16, depleted due to injury and illness, put up valiant effort, but lost 4-2. The U19 put on their best performance of the weekend, winning their game 4-2 & claiming the trophy.
Outside of the tournament, the team played multiple matches against other schools in Philadelphia and New Jersey, including a game against Germantown Friends School. They also took in the sights, visiting Independence Hall Museum, the World Trade Centre and 9/11 Memorial, and even ran the step to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, made famous by the film, Rocky!
Over the summer, Freddie (C, VIBk2), embarked on the Grande Traversée des Alpes, a month long hike across the French Alps from lake Geneva to Nice, on foot, with a tent.
He did so to raise funds to help fight against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a condition that causes debilitating and overwhelming fatigue that isn’t alleviated by rest.
After walking 600kms over 24 days, dealing with 30km elevation gain, Freddie reached Menton on the French Riviera, and raised nearly 4000€.
Well done Freddie!
Congratulations are in order for Laurie (H, VIBk2), who recently earned his piano Fellowship Diploma from Trinity College London.
The diploma is only available to those who have worked through grades 1-8 on their chosen instrument. Two weeks after his GCSEs, Laurie sat a 50-minute exam that put his skills to the test, ultimately resulting in being approved.
The diploma is equivalent in standard to a postgraduate course recital at a conservatoire or university, and indicates a professional standard of performance and musical understanding.
Congratulations, Laurie!
George Mallory’s Olympic gold medal for Alpinism has been loaned by the Mallory family to the College and is on display from September in the the College museum, Treasury.
George Mallory took a leading role in the three British expeditions to Everest, climbing alongside his fellow Wykehamist climbers, Guy Bullock and Henry Morshead. Mallory was introduced to mountaineering by the College Tutor, R.L.G. Irving.
George’s medal has never before been on public display. Spink, the medal auctioneers, describe it as a an object of ‘national importance’. Memorials to all three Wykehamist climbers can be seen in the school’s medieval cloisters.
The medal, among many other artifacts, can be viewed in Treasury every day, 2-4, free of charge.
We’re delighted that, as of the 1st September 2025, the merger between Winchester College & The Pilgrims’ School is officially complete.
The milestone marks the start of an exciting new chapter in our shared history and educational vision. One that opens up important opportunities for our pupils & community, strengthens our commitment to excellence and intellectual ambition, and develops new opportunities for greater collaboration and innovation for the future.
Find out more about The Pilgrims’ School via the link below.
Our next Sixth Form Open Events are on the 13th and 16th of September, ahead of the application deadline date of the 29th.
If you have a friend or a family that would be benefit from a Winchester education, they can learn more at the link below.
As a reminder to current parents, and an introduction to the new, below is a link to the College’s photography platform.
The images are free to download, and prints can be purchased from the photographers, Camilla Winter-Moore and Jim Pascoe. Their details are shared on the relevant albums.
The password and username are shared in the covering email to this newsletter.
