"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." ~ John Singer Sargent

Checkmate ♟️Our U9 and U11 teams competed in the ‘Champion of Champions’ Chess Tournament hosted by King’s College, securing first and second place in this prestigious event.

230 years on and still squaring up against our oldest sporting foes, Charterhouse. On this occasion, it was a good 5 wicket win for the Westminster 1st XI at home on Vincent Square. The first Westminster/Charterhouse match was in 1794 - the oldest schools match on record.

One of the final competitions of the school year saw Kit (Sixth Form, MM) take the lawn bowls crown, with an 8-3 final win over Leyla (Sixth Form, AHH). Freddie (Sixth Form, MM) came in third.

The Pilgrims' Way mountain bike expedition: 181km over four days, from Surrey to Hampshire. Spectacular views. Great teamwork. Tired legs!

"The Westminster onslaught was heavy from the start". Another year, another Henley Royal Regatta Royal, and a solid start for the pink boat in the Princess Elizabeth. youtu.be/BxyhrlbqPMU?fe…

Our revels now are ended. The final week of the school year saw a “fantastic and unique” (~Head Master) production of The Tempest, outside in Ashburnham Garden. We are such stuff as dreams are made on…

🏆 2008 2009 2013 2016 2018 2021 2022 2024 Eight-time London Schools' U19 Cup Winners.

Speed and sustainability the drivers as Westminster pupils taste F1 success   Zephyr Racing, a team of six Lower Shell pupils, took part in F1 in Schools UK, the first Westminster pupils to enter this hard-fought STEM competition. Read more at westminster.org.uk/news

WUS pupil breaks chess record - Youngest ever to achieve Candidate Master (CM) status. 👏 At just nine years old, our Year 5 pupil, Ethan, surpassed a FIDE rating of 2200, making him the youngest ever player to obtain the prestigious title! ♟️ westminsterunder.org.uk/about/news/

The annual GB v France match will feature an U16 Westminster crew of George (Upper Shell, LL), Kuzey (Upper Shell, BB), Angus (Upper Shell, PP) and Jack (Upper Shell, HH). The Four came through tough qualifying to take the spot on the starting line, just outside Paris.

A solid fifth place at this year's National Schools Chess Championship. The train to Nottingham for the two-day, 26-team finals gave the team some final practice time.

Great summer sporting pursuits: golf, tennis ...curling?

"He was an inspirational leader whose intelligence and tenacity found solutions even when challenges seemed insurmountable." Mike Milne OW — multi-award-winning CG animator — obituary theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Top universities will welcome our Class of 24, as 58% of all A Levels are graded A*. 56 will head to Oxford, 30 to Cambridge and 23 to Imperial. In the US, schools include Ivy League UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Yale and Brown, as well as Stanford and MIT. westminster.org.uk/there-is-so-mu…

Westminster’s 128 GCSE exam pupils have received an excellent set of results. Top-line figures are that 94% of all grades awarded were at 9 or 8, equivalent to an A*, with 77% at the highest 9 grade. The ‘A grade’ (9-7) percentage is at just under 99%. westminster.org.uk/a-display-of-g…

Cover star! The 2025 #TatlerSchoolsGuide features an awful lot of Westminster School and Westminster Under School. Both schools are reviewed, and "exciting changes are afoot", with our move to co-education and pre-prep from 2026 noted. Become a Westminster ➡ westminsterunder.org.uk/admissions

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