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Some of the Peter Symonds students who have been offered places to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge STUDENTS at Peter Symonds College are celebrating an incredible 56 offers to study at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Between them, students from 28 different secondary schools have received 34 offers from the University of Oxford and 22 offers from the University of Cambridge. Principal Sara Russell said: “I am absolutely delighted for these students who are seeing their hard work and dedication yield wonderful results. The Oxbridge application process is always extremely challenging and incredibly competitive and to be offered a place is a fantastic achievement at any time. To be successful with the additional challenges that successive lockdowns and remote learning have placed in the way make these achievements even more impressive.”
Readers letters
100 Avenue Road from above during January 2021.
- Credit: Edie Raff
And this reviled behemoth returns
Peter Symonds, Canfield Gardens, Hampstead, writes:
It comes as no surprise to those of us who spent several years fighting Essential Living’s (EL) plans for a 24-storey tower block at Swiss Cottage, to hear them now claim that they’re no longer able to afford to include the promised 36 affordable housing units in their development for the site at 100 Avenue Road (Ham&High). They’ve made similar claims on numerous other multi-million-pound developments, and it was clear from the moment they won their appeal against Camden’s original refusal of this particular project that they were determined to dismantle as many as possible of the conditions of their planning permission as might minimise their vast profits.
STUDENTS at state schools and colleges have seen the successful launch of the 2021 HE+ Programme, run by Cambridge University with Peter Symonds College acting as a regional hub. The HE+ Programme is designed to challenge talented Year 12 students to raise their academic aspirations through a series of lectures, workshops and events offered by Cambridge University. More than 500 Year 12 students will take part in the HE+ Programme, which due to Covid-19 restrictions will be online. Students from Peter Symonds will work with those from Bitterne Park School, Andover/Sparsholt College, Bay House, Brockenhurst College, Itchen College, Oaklands Catholic School, Portsmouth College, HSDC in Alton and Havant/South Downs, Ringwood, Richard Taunton College and St Anne’s Catholic School for the extension programme involving university-style lectures and additional support offered by Trinity College, Cambridge.
A VOLUNTEER mask maker has raised more than £1,000 thanks to the help of staff at a Winchester college. Keen quilter Carol Edwards was in between projects and had an extensive stash of fabrics when she began making the masks, and now she has raised vital funds for the the Southampton Basics Bank. She said: “As soon as the need for face masks was proposed I started making them for my family and friends, as I strongly oppose the use of plastic for throwaway items. Friends of my daughters started asking for masks too and so the idea of making them for charity was born.”