Caterham Enrichment

The American concepts of DEI are crossing the Atlantic. And they’re taking root in our ancient universities, writes David Abulafia: 👇buff.ly/3ICbshb

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Fresh from lifting the top spot @SovereignArt National Prize in London with 'Wisdom with Wrinkles', Andrew O now goes on to compete internationally in their Global Students Prize! Good luck Andrew! Congratulations also to Amelia S who reached the National Final with 'The Dancer'.

Please spread the news to interested students. A poster for the competition here:

A pupil's recollections of the bizarre but gripping tangents made during Latin lessons by his teacher, William Cruickshank of @StPaulsSchool, some 50 years ago. Anything taught with passion is a source of pleasure:

If you have an idle moment over the festive season, why not give our Scholars' Crossword a go? 🎄 (Solutions if you get stuck: caterhamschool.co.uk/wp-content/upl…)

Confused & confuddled about prime ministers old & new? No better time to listen to @AnthonySeldon at the Caterham History Festival this Sat. 18 Nov @muddysurrey @surreylive caterhamschool.co.uk/whats-on/histo…

Opened envelopes & opened doors! 11 Caterhamians moving up to Oxbridge joining the 60 Old Cats who’ve made that move across last 5 years. @oldcaterhamians @CaterhamPrep

Huge shout out to Alex who collected 5 A*s today! Alex is officially the UK’s top young physicist having represented the UK in Tokyo at the 2023 Physics Olympiad where he won silver. Alex moves to study Mathematics and Computer Science at St John’s College, Oxford. @hmc @nicolawoolcock

Next up on our list of subject-specific reading suggestions is: 2. The Articulate Mammal by Jean Aitchison. From the recommended reading list for Linguistics. Let us know if you're reading something great you'd recommend this summer! #edutwitter @UniofOxford

Over the next few days, we'll be posting some summer reading ideas from our subject-specific reading lists. We'd love to hear your own book recommendations too! 1. Computational Fairy Tales, Jeremy Kubica. Computer Science reading list. #edutwitter @UniofOxford

Basic principle for students in literary studies: if you want to become an original, penetrating, insightful critic, you need to do your own thinking, and write your own work

A record 100 pupils in First - Fourth Year have volunteered, just a week after Examinations Week, to sit another paper - the legendarily tough Scholarship Prize Paper. This year they face questions on logic, moles, leisure in art and historiography. We salute you all! 🫡👨🏼‍🎓

@romanhistory1 adorea liba per herbam
subiciunt epulis …              
et Cereale solum pomis agrestibus augent.
consumptis hic forte aliis, ut vertere morsus
exiguam in Cererem penuria adegit edendi,
et violare manu malisque audacibus orbem
fatalis crusti patulis nec parcere quadris …

@romanhistory1 The Trojans were eating pizza in Italy long before this, surely?

Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza theguardian.com/world/2023/jun… via @romanhistory1

1 week until the MASSOLIT Video Essay Competition closes – students MUST have submitted their entries by 5PM Friday 30th June 🗓️ massolit.io/competition

"In the early 1700s a young man wrote a lively Latin poem of 95 hexameters on nothing but cricket. This piece "In Certamen Pilae"=“On the ball contest” is glossed as “Anglice, A Cricket-Match”. It's the first explicit account of how this sport was played." antigonejournal.com/2022/09/certam…

At the busiest time of the academic year, we all pause from the quotidian to witness a moment entirely new to us and yet of staggering antiquity. George III reigned when our school was founded; today we see Caterham's tenth Sovereign crowned. God save The King! #Coronation

Well done indeed to these dazzling five finalists who once again delivered an amazing evening. Particular congratulations to our 2023 Victrix, Violet W, with her virtuosic exegesis of Prometheus in Romantic literature. And thanks to all of you who tuned in and asked questions.