Welcome to the 2023

Wykeham Journal

A Vision rooted in values

Winchester College is a world leader in education. The school’s strength and influence reach across the globe.

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A Wider Perspective

I arrived at Winchester — a school with which my family had no previous connection — in January 1965. In those days most pupils started in September but there was a small intake each January. The Headmaster when I started was Desmond Lee, who seemed...

George Brock

A Musical Legacy

Winchester’s Goddard Legacy Society brings together 236 people who have promised legacies to the school when they die. Most of the society’s members, naturally enough, are Old Wykehamists. More than 40 were not at the school but have relatives who...

James Turner,

Lisa Turner

Never Forgotten

This year Winchester’s War Cloister will be a century old. Rudyard Kipling, who liked it very much, felt sure that it would stand unchanged 100 years after its completion, and he was right. ‘One could see, when one had admired, how it will weather...

Josephine Walton

A Sustainable Society

Curious people seek schools that grow their curiosity. Oscar Mitcham (H, 2018-23) arrived at Winchester by just this route. Oscar asks questions, a lot of questions. He was at school near the family home in Edinburgh and the school agreed that he...

Oscar Mitcham

Exploring Learning

From his vantage point Bill Mills (K, 1979-84) can see both Winchester’s past and its future. He and his family do not just have a long history of attending the school. Their connection continues today. The Mills family is currently represented by...

Bill Mills

Classics For All Ages

If you were asked to guess which two classroom subjects at Winchester have forged the strongest connections with people outside the school, you might mention Maths. You would be right: with a Wykehamist Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak (H, 1993-98)...

Edmund Lewis

From the college

Welcome & Warden’s Report

I write this on a glorious November afternoon, having followed in Keats’s footsteps along the path from College to the Hospital at St Cross. This walk, at a similar time of year, inspired Keats to write his Ode to Autumn. For me, more modestly, it brought home both our huge good fortune to be surrounded by so much beauty and our serious responsibilities as custodians of such a wonderful landscape and so many historic buildings.

Headmaster’s Message

My very first lunch up to House was in Trant’s in 2008, when I sat at a table next to a boy called Adam. At first I was leading the conversation — as dons generally must with younger boys — and asking questions about their Ekker, their favourite subjects and what they were reading.

Bursar's Report

Working at Winchester is often quite breathless, particularly during term-time, for all those involved not only in teaching but also in supporting that mission. Reflecting on achievements over the past year necessarily requires a pause, and it is a pleasure to take a snapshot of the past 12 months.

Development Report

The first time I came to Winchester College was about 30 years ago: I was in my first proper job, working as the Undergraduate Admissions Officer at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and had been invited by one of the Housemasters to come for lunch with pupils (or “lunch up to House” as I now know to call it) followed by a tour of the College.

Historic pillars in the cloisters of Winchester College

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