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January 2012
Congratulations!
Among last term’s achievements Zander
Cornish-Moore won the senior heats in the
Oxford Diocese of the Cranmer Reading
Competition and goes forward to the national
finals in the spring; Thomas Salt won a
prestigious Roentgenium award following his
participation in the new Cambridge Chemistry
Challenge and William Nott won second prize
in this year’s Institute of Economic Affairs
Student Essay Competition. Jordan Anning
was awarded an Arkwright Scholarship, in
recognition of his potential in engineering and
design, and Julius Coventry won an army
scholarship and a place at Sandhurst. Ethan
Clarke gained a place as an oboist in the
National Children’s Wind Sinfonia for 2012 and
Thomas Dingwall won an Oxford Cricket Board
player of the year award for the second year
running, this time in the U12 category. The
senior debaters had a good win in the opening
round of the English Speaking Union’s National
Debating Competition, while Thomas Salt,
Phoenix Tse, Omri Faraggi and Julian Ting,
won the regional final of the UK Mathematics
Trust senior Maths Challenge without dropping
a mark. Very many congratulations to
everyone.
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Staff profile:
Rebecca Cottam
Examinations Officer, responsible for the
administration of external examinations, a
job she enjoys for the methodical discipline
it requires. Having worked at the School for
almost 10 years, she became the full time
Examinations Secretary in 2003, taking over
as the Examinations Officer on Dr Wilmore’s
retirement.
At the beginning of last term she became a
section officer with the RAF side of the School
CCF. She had been briefly involved with the
RAF after leaving school and missed being part
of the organisation.
In her spare time Rebecca, who is married with
one daughter, is a UKA Level 2 Athletics coach
with Radley Athletics Club. Her main interest is
the high jump though she is qualified to coach
sprints and hurdles too. Her daughter is the
current county champion at discus and shot
putt and her husband is also an athlete as well
as a coach.
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