Thomas Heatherwick (OS 1984) was appointed CBE for services to the design industry. He founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 and has worked on a number of major design projects, including the UK Seed Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the London routemaster bus and the cauldron for the London Olympic Games in 2012.

Current staff also had the opportunity to catch up with their former pupils at the informal BBQ afterwards.

Read more about it on HE and Careers pages

Oliver's latest work called Outside-in is made in lead-crystal and will be permanently installed in the gallery's foyer. For more information on Oliver's sculpture click here

Oliver is also currently artist in residence with the Fondation Hermès in Paris.

In this exhibition Simon Starling invites you to take a ‘rollercoaster ride on invisible rails’ through histories and memories of Tate Britain’s famous Duveen galleries.

Read more about the exhibition which runs until October 20.

Actor, writer and comedian Brett Goldstein (1998) plays Tom in the first episode of the series written, directed by and starring Ricky Gervais.

If you didn't see the episode on 30 January you can watch again.

Edmond, whose interests include trail running, has entered the race on two previous occasions. He takes the Bourne Cup from last year's winner Ben Reynolds and hopes to be able to compete in future races.

THE LEAGUE
The club will compete in an 11-a-side league on Saturdays around London and the South-East against Old Boys sides from many of the other leading public schools.

The team will be entering the Arthurian League, a competition between Old Boys teams of currently 35 leading independent schools across the South East such as Tonbridge, Eton, King’s Wimbledon and Haileybury.

The league runs annually from August-April with around 20 league games and a couple of cup matches (about 25 games per year). As this is a new team the place in the league structure would only come into effect in 2013/14. However, the team has already been entered into this year's Cup and will be playing their first ever game on the 19th January against Highgate Old Boys with a squad comprising leavers from as far back as '01 and as recent as '08. Win or lose, several friendlies against other league teams are being organised over the next few months.

THE SQUAD 
The club is looking to get a squad of 30 OS together under the assumption that availability will fluctuate throughout the season. There is already interest from around 25 OS but they are looking to expand this and include as broad a spectrum of years as possible. There will always be plenty of games for everyone between friendlies, inter-squad friendlies and competitive fixtures.

THE NEXT STEP
An Old Sennockians Football Club is a great addition to the OS community and we encourage you to get involved!

If you are interested in finding out more - whether you see yourself playing every week or very infrequently due to other commitments - please email the following OS.
Alastair Perry (2002)  alastair_perry@hotmail.com
Mark Thompson (2002) thompsonmarkb@googlemail.com

The propulsive landing programme involves landing rockets and capsules on Earth so that they can be refuelled and flown again. It is hoped this innovation will save 95% of the cost of the rocket (compared to throwing the whole thing away every time).

The successful first vertical test flight of the 12-storey Grasshopper took place on December 17, 2012 in Texas.

Leah is reading Music and also holds the William Ewald Performance Exhibition.  

Above, Richard of Bordeaux, 1934. We believe Clive Dunn is in the back row, fourth from right.

Following our hugely popular Geography Photograph Competition in the summer, the Geography Calendar is now available for purchase.

Each photograph was taken by a member of our school community in places all around the world from Antarctica to Knole Park. The photos were selected by a group of students from the school who worked with a professional designer in the production process. The calendars themselves have been printed by a local company on FSC certified paper using vegetable inks and are truly stunning in quality.

All profits from the sale of the calendar will go to Education for All, a charity which supports a school for impoverished girls in rural Morocco. The recent plight of schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai and her campaign to improve access to education for girls in such rural communities has highlighted just how crucial this can be for the development of a country, and how eager young girls are to attend school. As part of our IB geography trip we are able to visit this school at Easter and see how our money has helped. We have raised almost £3000 for the charity to date.

How to Order

Following their popularity last year, we anticipate the calendars selling out fast. They are £15 each for a single purchase or £12.50 each if more than one is purchased. 
 
If you would like to order some, please email geogcalendar@sevenoaksschool.org by Friday 7 December 2012.

Payment can be made by cheque, payable to ‘Sennocke Services Ltd' and sent directly to the school, please mark the envelope for the attention of Mrs L Radford. Calendars will be sent out once the cheque has been received.

Alternatively, please email the above address to arrange collection from Claridge House if you would prefer. 

Paul was Head of Physics at Sevenoaks from 1984 to 1997, when he retired and went to live in Lancaster. He continued to run workshops for the IB, devised a new syllabus and became Deputy Chief Examiner.

Listen to the programme here.

She is also a member of the Excel Talent Para-Equestrian dressage squad and competed at the national championships for the last two years. Her other claim to sporting fame was breaking the national U12 70m hurdles record, which still stands 18 years later.

After contracting meningococcal septicaemia at the age of 25, Diana replaced her previous legs with state-of-the-art carbon fibre ones.

Her long-term aim is to be selected to represent GB and win a gold medal.

The Thiel Fellowship, founded by Peter Thiel, a US billionaire entrepreneur and first investor in Facebook, funds 20 students under the age of 20 with US$100,000 to drop out of college and work on start-up projects in Silicon Valley.

Click here for further details.

This is the first time an OS team have played the School First team for a number of years and hopefully it will become a regular part of School’s sporting calendar. The game took place on a cool March evening under floodlights at Wrotham School and was played in a great spirit. Whilst the score line favoured the school, the game was competitive and enjoyable. The evening finished with a meal for all the players and coaching staff at The Spice Club in Sevenoaks. For further details click here.

The history of John Longmire and his role in music at Sevenoaks is recorded in the History of Music at Sevenoaks School written by Peter Young, who taught music at Sevenoaks School for 36 years. The book can be purchased from the Development Office.

BeetleCam is Back Teaser from Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas on Vimeo.

Miss Diana Day died on Thursday 16 February 2012, aged 93. She was the Secretary to four headmasters at Sevenoaks from 1954-1973 and was instrumental in the founding of VSU at Sevenoaks in 1960. Di was a great supporter of Sevenoaks School.

Di Day with Ollie Barratt at Founder's Day 2010

On his blog on 24 January, Chris writes: ‘I played an unsigned female artist by the name of Phoebe Ray and the reaction to her song "Enigma" was 100% positive.’

Phoebe was also recently interviewed for Strands, the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show magazine. She is currently studying History of Art at Edinburgh University. Read the interview (p100).

Simon Donaldson received a Knighthood in the 2012 Honours List for services to Mathematics. Professor Donaldson is the Royal Society Research Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He attended Sevenoaks School between 1970 – 1975 before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He later became the Wallis Professor of Mathematics at Oxford in 1985 and was awarded the Fields Medal by the International Congress of Mathematics in 1986, generally regarded as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Emma Hope (1978 – 1980) received an MBE for services to the Fashion Industry. After leaving Sevenoaks School, Emma studied at Cordwainers College and began her career designing ballet pumps for Laura Ashley. She then worked for Betty Jackson and Jean Muir before opening her first shop in Islington. There are now three Emma Hope shops in London and her shoes and bags are sold in over 150 stores worldwide. Emma designed shoes for the film Pride and Prejudice (2005). She has won five Design Council Awards, the Martini Style Award, and the Harpers & Queen Design Award.

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