Doris Wang richly deserved this year’s Cheltonian Endowment Trust Prize. Having started her College career a disembodied voice on the other side of the world, attending via Mr Richard Preece’s laptop during a Covid- compromised Fourth Form, Doris, through talent and sheer determined graft delivered the winning NEA, and attended more final Summer Term APT on a thrice-weekly basis than even Richard Nixon, legendary briefing file absorber, would have managed himself. Toby Krauer similarly wasn’t satisfied with merely evaluating his sources, he sent grinning dispatches from the field (Brighton Pavilion).

Lower Sixth delivered a lot of fun too. Jackie and Jack (without prior consultation) took Morley Dinner costume to the next Halloween-esque level, narrowly not breaching the grounds of taste, and Castro and Che buddied up alongside Carter, Churchill (on AND off duty) and some cardinals. Student presentations covered pyramids, Disney princesses, Napoleon, Barbenheimer, and, possibly most memorably, an earnest consideration of ‘what if’ D-Day had seen the Allies land AT-ATs via mulberry harbours. The Third Form visited Dunkirk (a first for College) at the end of their time in Flanders fields: if only we could have got them there in X-wing starfighters… though Blackadder on the coach went down just as well as ever.

Miss Jo Doidge-Harrison