This year there was another very fine team performance by King’s, who were unofficially placed 4^th from about a hundred competing prep schools. 200 of the 750 entrants qualified for Paper 2, and these 200 included a record 12 King’s pupils. Richard Barwise achieved a brilliant second place – the highest individual showing ever by a King’s pupil. Indeed Richard was the only candidate to achieve 80% or more on both papers. The examiner commented that ‘in many years Richard would have been a worthy champion’. Year 7s Joseph Stedman-Jones and Cameron Skinner produced highly promising papers and Evy Cavalla (the highest placed King’s girl for several years) and Tom Etheridge both moved through well on Paper Two.

 

The examiner's report again featured a number of humorous comments and observations. ‘Elizabeth got her own way because she was a woman’, ‘Henry VII, unlike some Kings, was a clever man.’ ‘Elizabeth I never married and therefore had many successes.’  ‘Charles I, like the present government, put on heavy extra taxes and paid the price’.

 

 

 

Oliver Shore                                         107^th=

James Hopkinson-Hughes, Will Adams     147^th=

Paul Clarke, Alex Holiday                       182^nd=