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Year 12 A Level students dazzled with two terrifically inventive pieces of original drama.

Perkyns Ho Year 9 and George Good Year 13 recently spent a morning at the studio of Phil Manzanera OA recording tracks for Phil’s forthcoming new album.

Last Wednesday saw the final Upper School Games climbing session at Arch+ in Bermondsey for Year 13s, marking the end of two years’ worth of  camaraderie, sweat and blisters.

Our African and Caribbean Society (A&C) has hosted a range of speakers and talks this year and there is still more to come.

Here the boys are shining the shoes ready for their next owners.

It was wonderful to welcome back 30 OAs, parents (past and present) and friends of the Careers department to our first in-person networking event in over two years.

On Thursday this week 80 boys who will be joining Year 9 this September came to spend the afternoon at the College.

The College was delighted to have re-ignited the Dulwich Inter-Schools Cycling Championships since our last foray in 2019.

There they met Tom Bilson, the Head of Digital Media at the Courtauld Institute, who showed them the exhibition of Anthony Kersting OA’s Kurdistan photographs which were taken in 1944-6.

Following the success of both Archie McCombie (Year 11), who came first in the coveted Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prize, and Sam Stewart (Year 13) who was awarded third prize in the in the University of the Creative Arts (UCA) 2021 Film, Media and Performing Arts Competition, we are delighted to announce that Oliver Sachs (Year 12) was awarded the top prize in the annual Young Art Exhibition in the Year 10 and 11 category.

We were delighted to welcome friends old and new to the Great Hall on Tuesday 5 May to celebrate all things bookish in the CWISL CWIZZ.

The second half of the Lent Term was truly alive with concerts and musical events, and it culminated with an impressive Spring Chamber Concert on Wednesday 30 March.

Friday 29 April saw the Junior Schools at both Dulwich College and James Allen's Girls School burst with colour as we enjoyed the long-awaited Junior School Symposium once more.

Our talented GCSE cohort presented us with nuanced believable performances of extracts from Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock.

Year 12 and 13 Spanish classes had a great start to the summer term, spending Friday 29 April with a group of students from Colegio Esclavas Santander.

After a late-night training session at Hemel Snow Centre on Sunday, our ski racers finished another successful indoor season on Monday racing in the English Schools Open Indoor Championships.

Dulwich College Mountaineering Club climbing trip to Stanage Edge in the Peak District, 2-4 April 2022.

On the 2nd anniversary of the first lockdown a group of Year 12 Biologists travelled to the Museum of London to hear Professor Chris Whitty lecture on one of his areas of interest – infections that use touch to transmit.

During the Lent term the Dulwich College community has been active in finding ways to support the people of Ukraine. Our chosen charity is the Disasters Emergency Committee and funds have also been channelled through the Red Cross.