Harrow is a full boarding school for boys
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![Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London. Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-2.jpg)
Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London.
![Did you know? • 7 British Prime Ministers were educated at Harrow • 85% Did you know? • 7 British Prime Ministers were educated at Harrow • 85%](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-3.jpg)
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
![History of the School • The School was founded in 1572 under the Royal History of the School • The School was founded in 1572 under the Royal](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-4.jpg)
History of the School • The School was founded in 1572 under the Royal Charter granted by Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a local farmer.
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"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;
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"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;
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"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;
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"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.
![Harrow Football "Again we rush across the slush A pack of breathless faces And Harrow Football "Again we rush across the slush A pack of breathless faces And](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-9.jpg)
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
![• Harrow aims to provide a very high standard of coaching and competition • Harrow aims to provide a very high standard of coaching and competition](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-10.jpg)
• 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.
![Soccer Cricket Athletics Rugby Harrow has a tradition of success in sport. Soccer Cricket Athletics Rugby Harrow has a tradition of success in sport.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-11.jpg)
Soccer Cricket Athletics Rugby Harrow has a tradition of success in sport.
![Climbing Badminton Croquet Basketball Harrow competes against a large number of good independent schools. Climbing Badminton Croquet Basketball Harrow competes against a large number of good independent schools.](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-12.jpg)
Climbing Badminton Croquet Basketball Harrow competes against a large number of good independent schools.
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Hockey Judo Lawn Tennis Fencing
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Sailing Shooting Swimming Water Polo Cross Country
!["The Songs tradition is a remarkable and enduring aspect of a Harrow education". Songs "The Songs tradition is a remarkable and enduring aspect of a Harrow education". Songs](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-16.jpg)
"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.
![The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble Choral Society The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble Choral Society](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-17.jpg)
The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble Choral Society
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Chamber Music The Symphony Orchestra
![Harrow has a thriving rock and pop music scene, with between five and ten Harrow has a thriving rock and pop music scene, with between five and ten](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-19.jpg)
Harrow has a thriving rock and pop music scene, with between five and ten bands rehearsing regularly, with personnel from all year groups.
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Drama
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Visual Arts
![Did you know? • 8 boys are going on to study Art or Architecture Did you know? • 8 boys are going on to study Art or Architecture](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/ed88706cc7102ce2a5d7cdcb7ff2128a/image-22.jpg)
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.
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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)
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Thank you for your attention.
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