Welcome to Harrow School

Welcome to Harrow School

Unit 4, lesson 1 English 9 – УМК В.П. Кузовлева, Н.М. Лапа и др :Москва, «Просвещение»

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Никитина С.Г., учитель английского языка, МОУ «СОШ №133», г. Пермь, 2011

Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London.

• 7 British Prime Ministers were educated at Harrow

• 85% of Harrow boys come from UK prep schools

• 10 pupils a year go on to University in the USA

Did you know?

History of the School

• The School was founded in 1572 under the Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local farmer.

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."

• A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed name many statesmen, including Peel, Palmerston, Churchill, Pandit Nehru and King Hussein of Jordan;

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."

• A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed name many poets and writers as diverse as Byron, Sheridan, Trollope, Dornford Yates and Richard Curtis;

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."

• A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed name Lord Rayleigh, the physicist and Nobel prize-winner;

• Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography;

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."

• A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed name the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans and Bruce the explorer;

• Sir William Jones, father of philology;

• Admiral Rodney and Field Marshal Alexander;

• and nineteen winners of the Victoria Cross.

Harrow Football

"Again we rush across the slush -A pack of breathless faces -

And charge and fall, and see the ballFly whizzing through the bases".

Stet Fortuna Domus, 1891

• Harrow aims to provide a very high standard of coaching and competition for the best sportsmen while enabling the less gifted to find something they can enjoy.

• Pupils can play sport every day if they wish, and for the enthusiast there are outstanding opportunities to play and excel.

Soccer

Rugby

Cricket

Athletics

Harrow has a tradition of success in sport.

Badminton

Basketball

Climbing

Croquet

Harrow competes against a large number of good independent schools.

Fencing

Hockey

Judo

Lawn Tennis

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Water Polo

Cross Country

"The Songs tradition is a remarkable and enduring aspect of a Harrow education".

Songs Concerts always include Forty Years On, which has become known as The Harrow Song.

The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble

Choral Society

The Symphony Orchestra

Chamber Music

Harrow has a thriving rock and pop music scene, with between five and ten bands rehearsing regularly, with personnel from all year groups.

Drama

Visual Arts

Did you know?

• 8 boys are going on to study Art or Architecture at university

• 100% of Harrow pupils who took A-level Art in 2009 got an A grade

• 330 pupils out of 815 are studying Art.

Settling into a boarding school

Five hundred faces and all so strange,Life in front of me, home behind,I felt like a waif before the wind,

Tossed on an ocean of shock and change.

(Excerpt from Five Hundred Faces by EE Bowen)

Thank you for your attention.

Links

• http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/• http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/default.aspx?id=217• http://khs-net.kingsbury.brent.sch.uk/kingsburians/gallery/kingsburyarea/large/Harrow

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