Foundation Day Essay Winners
Congratulations to the winners, as chosen by Dr Griffin, for this year's competition: My Idea of Fun. Thank you to Mrs Higginson for organising the competition, reading all the essays and providing Dr Griffin with the shortlist.
Year 6 (Prep):
- First Prize: Benji Dubois, What is Fun?
- Second Prize: Lorenzo Corbo, Spending Time with my Extended Family
Year 7:
- First Prize: Ethan Turner-Peters, Chess
- Joint Second Prize: Molly Curtis, Ponies and Zac Sattar, My Little Sister
- Third Prize: Aamani Seth, Refurbishing Properties
Year 8:
- First Prize: Alice Coker, Sometimes being Social, Sometimes being Alone
- Second Prize: Grace Dhesi, Going on my Phone
- Third Prize: Harriet Firth, Playing Hockey in Goal
Year 9:
- First Prize: Diya Bhatt, Fun is Flexible and Fluent
- Second Prize: Clementine Buchanan, Imagining the Queen’s Idea of Fun
Year 10:
- First Prize: Millie Parker, Going to the Seaside at Southwold
- Second Prize: Amelia Blythe, Not being Part of the Capitalist System
Year 11:
- Joint First Prize: Shruti Chakraborty, Childhood Innocence and Freedom and Beatrice Sadler, Riding a Horse at Full Gallop
- Second Prize: Akshayaa Subaharan, Cooking
- Third Prize: Jayree Taylor, Loud Music
Year 12:
- First Prize: Eleanor Jones, Walking Outdoors
- Joint Second Prize: Yaameen Yusuf, a Long Drive with Music and Lewis Hurd, at the Playground as a Child
Year 13:
- First Prize: Urvita Roy, Board Games
- Joint Second Prize: Thomas England, the Chemistry of Enjoyment and Antonia Veary, the Joy of Language
- Third Prize: Nathan Wong, Football Matchday