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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. Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London. Did you know?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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
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Harrow is a full boarding school for boys only in northwest London.
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• 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
Did you know?
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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.
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Harrow Football
"Again we rush across the slush -A pack of breathless faces -
And charge and fall, and see the ballFly whizzing through the bases".
Stet Fortuna Domus, 1891
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• 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.
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Soccer
Rugby
Cricket
Athletics
Harrow has a tradition of success in sport.
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Badminton
Basketball
Climbing
Croquet
Harrow competes against a large number of good independent schools.
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Fencing
Hockey
Judo
Lawn Tennis
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Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Water Polo
Cross Country
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"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.
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The Byron Consort is Harrow’s elite vocal ensemble
Choral Society
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The Symphony Orchestra
Chamber Music
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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
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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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Links
• http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/• http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/default.aspx?id=217• http://khs-net.kingsbury.brent.sch.uk/kingsburians/gallery/kingsburyarea/large/Harrow
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