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It is with great pleasure we congratulate Girinath Haridas (6R) who has been selected to represent England in the upcoming European Youth Chess Championship.

Congratulations to Joe Woof (6Q) for qualifying for the 50m backstroke in the Independent Association of Prep Schools Finals.

Congratulations to Billy Borten (5V) who was selected to represent Fulham Football Club last weekend at a tournament in Paris

In our continuing support for our link school in Buwembe Uganda, the 2012 calendar presents 12 images especially produced by pupils at DUCKS and Dulwich College.

On Wednesday, 12 October the Year 3 boys came to school dressed as Athenian citizens. The boys pretended it was the year 490BC and that they were in the agora in Athens awaiting the news of the progression of the Persian army.

Joe Craig, author of the popular Jimmy Coates series of books spoke to boys in Years 5 and 6 in the morning and followed this up with a lunchtime talk in the Raymond Chandler Library.

The Junior School Chess Squad secured first place in an inter-school chess tournament on Sunday 29 January. It was the regional eliminator for a national tournament, to be held in Camber Sands in the summer.

The Remembrance Ceremony at the College included, for the first time in recent years, a full contingent of the 25th Camberwell (1st Dulwich College) Scouts as well as members of the CCF.

On Wednesday 15 February all of the Year 3 boys visited Southwark Cathedral.

On Friday 23 March the entire Junior School got on its running kit and ran a mile for 'Save the Children'.

Congratulations go to Ethan Staunton (6RS) who has been selected for the U13 Surrey Hockey squad. Ethan was selected from a large group of boys invited to a hockey camp after an initial trial. This is a particularly remarkable achievement given that he was trialled alongside boys two years above him.

On Tuesday the entire Junior School took part in the annual House Team Building Day. With the older Year 6 boys partnering their buddies from the younger year groups, each House attempted to overcome a series of mental and physical challenges that demanded close team work.

The boys in Year 6 celebrated Valentine’s Day with a visit from our very own cupid and librarian, Mrs Forbes.

Our Junior School boys have achieved some remarkable successes in the Kent Junior Chess Championship Grand Prix 5 held at Gravesend on 19 February.

In July, two Dulwich teachers and five students undertook a tiring but fascinating trip to Buwembe school in Uganda, which Dulwich College has supported for many years through fundraising events and gifts

The new academic year marks the launch of a refreshed look and feel for all College publicity materials, including the website, signage, stationery and prospectus.

A level results 2011 Boys at the College achieved their best ever results this summer, with 91.6% of grades at A*, A or B. 70.8% of grades were A or A*, and 25.8% were graded A*. Half the boys in the year group achieved 3 A grades or better.

Congratulations to Lucas Wilson (6R), Sam Fanning (6RS) and Jake Fetherston (6Q) who have been selected for the Surrey Cricket U11 squad.

The author Caroline Lawrence visited Dulwich College Junior School on Thursday 15 March. She gave a presentation to the whole school and had us all in fits of laughter.

"Whoosh! The sound of the past two weeks flying by in a whirlwind of lessons and library books, timetables and lunch tables and times tables, new blazers, new teachers and new faces. Yet somehow the experience of these 14 days feels like a long established routine, new faces seem like old faces and new places feel like home..."