News & Diary
Winchester Weekly – 9th September 2025
WEEKEND ARRANGEMENTS FOR BOARDERS (13 and 14 September 2025)
Details for this weekend can be found below. 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 11 September. Log in, select ‘Interactive’ and ‘Weekend Sign-out’ to complete the form.
Advance Notice
The weekend of 8/9 November sees this term’s Community Weekend. Parents are welcome as always to attend the sports matches on Saturday afternoon. A programme of activities is planned from Saturday evening onwards, when our focus will turn internally to celebrate and benefit from one another’s company. Pupils should not take their Flexible/Prefects’ Weekend leave nor Sunday leave this weekend, as they will be participating in activities within School.
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
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.
Below, you can find links to our lecture series and music diary for the upcoming term.
Congratulations to Sebastian (D) for making his first class cricket debut yesterday. He took to the field for Middlesex in a County Championship match against Derbyshire at Lord’s. Sebastian bowled well, regularly beating the bat and should have taken a wicket by LBW!
In other cricketing news, OW and former sports scholar, Jonathan Figy, was recently featured in an interview with The National. The article covers Jonathan’s international debut at 18, struggling during the Covid pandemic, and how encouraging words from College cricket coach Paul Gover helped him stay the course when he was considering giving up the game.
You can read the article at the link below.
Congratulations to Lachlan (C), Zain (A), Wilson (X) and Jacques (B) for being shortlisted in this year’s John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize.
The annual competition invites pupils 18 and younger to answer an essay question of their choosing on topics ranging from philosophy and politics to history and theology.
The essays are then judged by a panel of senior academics from leading universities including Oxford and Princeton.
The final results will be announced at an awards ceremony in early October.
Good luck boys!
Over the summer, sports scholar, Jesse (C) travelled to Nigeria to lead some work for his charity, Lace the Dream.
A grassroots charity, Lace the Dream provides football equipment to talented but under-resourced young players in communities across Nigeria.
Many children still compete barefoot or in slippers but in just three weeks, Jesse managed to reach over 300 children, donating boots and organising and refereeing matches.
Well done, Jesse!
Brian Li, Chairman of The Hong Kong Friends of Winchester College and Fellow of Winchester College, recently hosted a drinks party for all new families in Hong Kong on Friday 22 August.
This was a great opportunity for families to meet up and get to know each other before they join Winchester in September. A wonderful time was had by all.
If you are interested in hearing about events in Hong Kong, please do sign up to the OW Hong Kong Guild via the link below.
Our next Sixth Form Open Events for new entrants will be held on the 13th and 16th of September, ahead of the application deadline date of the 29th.
If you have a friend or a family member who would 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.
