No . 130 The Trusty Servant
Visits to the school have been digitised . Studium ran on MS Teams , with Sir Vince Cable and others given a tasktime by savvy dons in order to master the technology . Show-arounds too are currently via screens . This has its advantages : it ’ s always sunny on the screen and there are no nasty surprises or noxious smells upon gingerly pushing open a door into a gallery .
Finally , The Trusty Servant has welcomed the birth of a new sibling magazine , Winchester Weekly , a digital offering giving parents the up-todate news so important in these fast-moving times . Indeed , it ’ s part of a communications revolution at the College , with drone-footage of the site , YouTube videos about the school ’ s historic collections for the Heritage Open Days , and photogenic dons sharing their stories ( your editor has somehow been missed off the list ). The Trusty Servant looks on nervously , stressing that blackand-white photos on sepia-tinged paper still have their niche in the journalistic marketplace .
Academic News
This year is the first time that Wykehamists have been selected to represent the UK in all three main Science Olympiads . Remarkably , two of the three pupils were from VI Book 2 . The results and countries organising the remote theory-only competitions were :
Physics ( Romania ) Max Wong ( ex F )
Chemistry ( Turkey ) Rtvik Patel ( Coll )
Biology ( Japan ) William Leung ( Coll )
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Sporting News
Desperate not to be denied their season of cricket , ten leavers and a smattering of younger players returned for a series of matches in August , mostly against adult teams for whom our boys may play in future . Win Coll may well have been the first school to play an external cricket fixture this summer , a narrow loss to the OWs on 5 th August , followed by another loss to a Hampshire Development XI . Ours was certainly the first school game to be re-arranged with the MCC , on 18 th August , alas rather a disastrous defeat . Ten top years , desperate for some time on Lords after a term at home , returned to take part , joined by the usual smattering of younger players . It looked like being a whitewash , but the final game ( a second fixture against the OWs ) was a thriller . Winchester batted first , posting 171 , with Ridley ( K , 15-20 ) smashing 76 in the middle order and Batten ( A , 18- ) shepherding the tail with a neat 27 . The OWs replied steadily before captain Flatt ( I , 15-20 ) and Whillock ( F , 18- ) picked up 4-8 between them . OW captain James Irvine-Fortescue ( K , 00-05 ) then swung the game in their favour . His departure to a good catch at mid-off by Flatt off Batten precipitated an OW collapse from 114-4 to 149-9 . But the last-wicket partnership of Rathod ( H , 07-12 ) and Bertlin ( I , 13-18 ) countered quickly , to leave 2 to win off the last over . Tall ( F , 16- ) bowled , Bertlin pushed into the covers , Axtell ( C , 15-20 ) swooped , Adams ( D , 15-20 ) ran 15 yards from mid-off to be at the bowler ’ s stumps to whip the bails off and seal victory by a single run .
Cricket was also played well into Short Half ; a new competition called the Winchester Hundred saw boys divided into mixed-yeargroup franchises and complete to slog as many runs as possible off 100 deliveries .
In addition to autumnal cricket , the exotic mix of sports offered in Short Half included one played with an oval ball . Fear not : Our beloved Game will be busting off as usual ( at least since 1964 ) at the start of Common Time .
The new sports centre is not rising quite as swiftly as planned , but for good reason : medieval archaeological discoveries . The main reception entrance and corridor will lie above the line of Gynge Lane , a road last mapped in the 1370s . As well as some pottery , oyster shells , medieval glass and a knife , the team from Border Archaeology discovered a stonelined well . But the most interesting discovery was of a cat skeleton ,
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