Welcome to Harrow School
Did you know?
History of the School
"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
Harrow Football
Drama
Visual Arts
Did you know?
Settling into a boarding school
Links
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Welcome to Harrow school

1. Welcome to Harrow School

Unit 4, lesson 1
English 9 – УМК В.П. Кузовлева, Н.М.
Лапа и др :Москва, «Просвещение»
2010
Никитина С.Г., учитель английского языка, МОУ «СОШ №133», г. Пермь, 2011

2.

Harrow is a full boarding school for boys
only in northwest London.

3. Did you know?

• 7 British Prime Ministers were educated at
Harrow
• 85% of Harrow boys come from UK prep
schools
• 10 pupils a year go on to University in the
USA

4. History of the School

• The School was founded in 1572 under
the Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I to
John Lyon, a local farmer.

5. "Welcome poet and statesman too..."

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
• A list of famous Old Harrovians might
indeed name many statesmen, including
Peel, Palmerston, Churchill, Pandit Nehru
and King Hussein of Jordan;

6. "Welcome poet and statesman too..."

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
• A list of famous Old Harrovians might indeed
name many poets and writers as diverse as
Byron, Sheridan, Trollope, Dornford Yates
and Richard Curtis;

7. "Welcome poet and statesman too..."

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
• A list of famous Old Harrovians might
indeed name Lord Rayleigh, the physicist
and Nobel prize-winner;
• Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography;

8. "Welcome poet and statesman too..."

"Welcome poet and statesman too..."
• A list of famous Old Harrovians might
indeed name the archaeologist Sir Arthur
Evans and Bruce the explorer;
• Sir William Jones, father of philology;
• Admiral Rodney and Field Marshal
Alexander;
• and nineteen winners of the Victoria
Cross.

9. Harrow Football

"Again we rush across the slush A pack of breathless faces And charge and fall, and see the ball
Fly whizzing through the bases".
Stet Fortuna Domus, 1891

10.

• Harrow aims to provide a very high
standard of coaching and competition
for the best sportsmen while enabling
the less gifted to find something they
can enjoy.
• Pupils can play sport every day if they
wish, and for the enthusiast there are
outstanding opportunities to play and
excel.

11.

Soccer
Cricket
Athletics
Rugby
Harrow has a tradition of success in sport.

12.

Climbing
Badminton
Croquet
Basketball
Harrow competes against a large number of good
independent schools.

13.

Hockey
Judo
Lawn Tennis
Fencing

14.

15.

Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Water Polo
Cross Country

16.

"The Songs tradition is a remarkable and
enduring aspect of a Harrow education".
Songs Concerts always include Forty Years
On, which has become known as The
Harrow Song.

17.

The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble
Choral Society

18.

Chamber Music
The Symphony Orchestra

19.

Harrow has a thriving rock and pop music scene, with between
five and ten bands rehearsing regularly, with personnel from all
year groups.

20. Drama

21. Visual Arts

22. Did you know?

• 8 boys are going on to study Art or
Architecture at university
• 100% of Harrow pupils who took A-level
Art in 2009 got an A grade
• 330 pupils out of 815 are studying Art.

23. Settling into a boarding school

Five hundred faces and all so strange,
Life in front of me, home behind,
I felt like a waif before the wind,
Tossed on an ocean of shock and change.
(Excerpt from Five Hundred Faces by EE Bowen)

24.

Thank you for your
attention.

25. Links


http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/
http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/default.aspx?id=217
http://khsnet.kingsbury.brent.sch.uk/kingsburians/gallery/kingsburyarea/large/Harrow%20School.jpg
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/images/image_bank/news/byron
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Richard_Sheridan.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope
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http://esask.uregina.ca/management/app/assets/img/enc2/selectedbig/51F3D143-1560-95DA4322AC316171592B.jpg
http://adg.llnl.gov/Research/scattering/LordRayleigh.jpg
http://www.nndb.com/people/397/000098103/talbot-1-sized.jpg
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