Results 2014: The Jigsaw of Life Begins to Fit Together – 14 August 2014
Just before 8:00am, I was presented with the two familiar login boxes that would now unlock the truth of my future.
Announcements / Exams / Family / School / Summer 2014 / Today
Just before 8:00am, I was presented with the two familiar login boxes that would now unlock the truth of my future.
Photos / School / Summer 2014 / Today
A fantastic finale to our time at Furze Platt, the Prom did one especially brilliant thing: it cleared the air. In the dying days of Year 13, the usual strong sense of community had somewhat collapsed. Tonight, though, it was very much alive and well.
Exams / Family / Maidenhead / Photos / Summer 2014 / Today
A birthday in late-April is no time to hold a celebration (examinations begin in the early weeks of May), but two months on, my late eighteenth birthday party was blessed with wonderful weather.
Five years after the family hosted an evening boat party to mark Mum’s 50th and Harriet’s 18th, I picked this Sunday afternoon to hold my very own. With me engrossed in revision, Dad had done the vast majority of the organising, although I came up with the finer details: deciding on the menu, compiling the playlist, and suggesting a ‘Henley’ dress code.
Exams / Sixth Form / Summer 2014 / Today
Today my exams season ends and the summer can finally begin. I’m watching a show in London, providing the PA for the church fair, and throwing a boat party.
Changing gear on my bike, my chain locked up and threw me off. Beneath me, my bike slid right across the road, twisting the handlebars and bending the derailleur. Picking myself off the floor, I brushed myself down, but my suit was ruined – and my wrist was feeling strange.
Regular readers will know of my involvement with the half-termly production of The Stag, my school’s Sixth Form-run newsmagazine, that I – along with my friends Chloe and Jack – reinvented this time last year....
Head Boy / Maidenhead / School / Speeches / Today
“I arrived at Furze Platt as an unhappy little boy: truth be told, I didn’t really want to be here. I’d said goodbye to my favourite teachers; some of my best friends had gone to other schools; and – worst of all – I’d forgotten my packed lunch. Seven years later, I’ll be leaving as a truly content young men, thanks to a wealth of experiences offered to me by the school.”
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