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New Year Quiz

YMS students found a good way to banish the winter blues by gathering in the Square Room on Thursday 15 January for our annual whole-school Quiz. Staff set testing questions on such topics as history, science, time (with some particularly puzzling proble…

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Duke of Edinburgh Car Wash

Four YMS students have chosen to raise money for charity for the volunteering section of their Duke of Edinburgh award. Their first money-making idea was to wash cars in the staff car park. This is proving very popular and they have so far raised about £…

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Valeriy Sokolov in Concert

Last year the scheduled concert by Valeriy Sokolov & Friends in our star-studded Alumni Celebrity series ended up as a concert merely by his Friends, since Valeriy himself was unable to secure a visa to leave Ukraine. Fortunately there was no such proble…

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Viols at the YMS

We were delighted to welcome to the School today Richard Boothby, director of the UK's leading viol ensemble Fretwork. Richard led workshops with both senior and junior pupils, introducing them to an instrument which, though less familiar to them than …

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Ham Dram

BBC dramatist Nick Perry came in to talk to pupils about writing for radio. Pupils in the C group are currently writing their own radio dramas in English and are about to start production. Nick showed the pupils what a professional radio script looks like…

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