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Honorary Scholarships and Awards Congratulations to all recipients of Honorary Scholarships and Awards in the Summer Term. Academic Scholarships were awarded to Kristina Krasnova, Lian Wilson, Justin Liu, Alexandre Bertrand, Olivia Ainsleigh Jones and Kourosh Jaafari. Sports Awards were presented to Aimée Diab, Hector Higgins, Meara James, Isabel Llabres Diaz, Isabella Makepeace, Guy Wheeler and Noah Wilmot. Arts Awards for Design were presented to Connie Wang, Emily Latham, Yukino Watanabe and Tom Helm. Sade McNichols-Thomas was presented with an Arts Award for Drama, Music and Dance.

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Josie Denvir, Head of School A Life on our Planet by David Attenborough and Jonathan Hughes It may come as a horror to many book lovers that I ‘dog-ear’ any page that I find especially fascinating when I’m reading. By the time I had finished A Life on Our Planet , my entire book appeared to be missing a corner. This is a clear testament to the eloquence and passion Attenborough pours into each page, carefully weaving together anecdote and fact to detail his witness statement of our planet across his lifetime, and what we can expect for the future. It is easy to adopt the mindset of ‘ignorance is bliss’ when faced with a disaster of such a scale, but Attenborough counters a looming sense of dread with a passionate incitement to hope, stirring the reader into action in the hope that humanity may just fix ‘our greatest mistake’.

Jonathan Hooper, Head of Computer Science The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan The Technological Singularity addresses the point in time where artificial intelligence eclipses human intelligence and forms a new era, one of super intelligence. Shanahan tackles this theoretical topic in a way which is accessible for any reader. He explores the pathway to get there and what life, or human existence, would look like in this era. Shanahan navigates you, the reader, through complex philosophical questions in an engaging manner whilst leaving you with more questions than you started with.

Jason Clapham, Head of English The Inheritors by William Golding Lok is running through a forest as fast as he can with a laughing child on his back. All of a sudden he stops, stunned at what he sees by the river crossing: ‘The log has gone away’. From the opening page of The Inheritors , this story of a charming Neanderthal family’s struggle to survive a tribe of homo sapiens is utterly unique. Golding considered it his most successful novel. You will not find a more immersive, exhilarating, technically brilliant— and moving—two hundred pages.