Wykeham Journal2025 edition

Welcome to the 2025

Wykeham Journal

Immersive Learning

The Wykeham Journal offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on the life of the College and the principles by which it continues to be shaped.

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Immersive Learning

Walking through Peterhouse Courtyard, Cambridge

Teaching Treasures: A Broader Education

I remember heading up to books to sit my final A-Level History paper. It was a misty morning, and I felt a quiet pre-exam apprehension as I walked out of Beloe’s. I arrived at School early and stepped into Chantry cloister. I sat down to give my...

James Hunter (K, 2018 - 23)

Immersive Learning

Teaching Treasures: The Same Room, A Different View

'Douglas! I heard you were going to… Winchester? Never heard of it. My da said it was quite a good school, but Douglas – it can’t be that good of a school if… you’re going there??' Thus (quite without malice) a former schoolmate reacted to my 1988...

Jeremy Douglas (Coll, 1988 - 92)

Access and Affordability

The Paddy Dear Award

Nearly 650 years ago William of Wykeham had a vision: to promote education in England and to create an institution that would endure. More prosaically, 52 years ago I was a chubby, spotty 13-year-old at Winchester College on a bursary that helped...

Paddy Dear (C, 1974 - 79)

Deep Community

Proud to play my part

How could I explain my job at Winchester College to someone outside? It’s unlike any other position I’ve ever had. I first came as a contractor, rewiring Chawker's ready for James Hodgins to take over as Housemaster in 2009. I remember sitting down...

Steve Hayward

Evidence-based Practice and Impact

Lady presenting to na audience at a lectern

The Future of Assessment

Daisy Christodoulou is the author of four books, including Seven Myths about Education and Teachers vs Tech. She is an experienced English Teacher and Director at No More Marking, a provider of online comparative-judgement software. Daisy is...

From the college

Warden’s Report

Over five years ago, the Governing Body laid out a strategy for Winchester College. Our goals were to see the School admit girls in VIth Book, grow to 900 pupils over a period of 6 - 8 years, and increase access via a growing bursary programme.

Headmaster’s Message

As will be clear from the last few issues of the Journal, despite many headwinds Winchester’s vision of education is thriving.

Bursar's Report

When reflecting on how to best prepare my first annual report, I thought it prudent that I looked at how my immediate predecessors had approached the task.

Director of Development's Report

It is not often that the national media shines its light on an individual donation made to an individual British school, but that is exactly what happened this spring when Paddy Dear (C, 1974 - 79) was interviewed by The Times about his endowment of the Paddy Dear Bursary Award.

View looking down the historic arches of the war cloisters, with a stone floor.

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