Patron's Parade
Special additions to the usual Patron’s Parade format today, in this, the school’s 140th anniversary year. The Parade honours the school’s Patron His Majesty King Charles, who accepted the Patronage of the school last year, continuing an unbroken line of sovereign patrons since Queen Victoria. Two new banners for the pipers! One featuring The King’s Cypher and another sporting the Royal Engineers crest. During the march on to the Parade Square, the Pipes and Drums formed the figure of 140 (pictured below), later the drummers performed Drummers’ Beating. Guest of Honour today was Colonel Gareth J Boyd, Commander of the Mission Ready Training Centre Bassingbourn, who inspected the Parade, which was led by Sergeant Major Alisha Limbu. The Drum Major was Lucy Carter, the Pipe Major Harry Gordon and the trumpeters were Jess Fowler and David Brocklebank. Presentations were made in music to the trio who reached the semi-final of the Pro Corda National Chamber Music Competition; Gold, silver and bronze medallists from the UK Schools Music Festival; the U18 Football team, winners of the Surrey Sixth Form League Cup Final; the Ten Tors team; the U15 netball squad who finished third in the country in the Sister n Sport Cup and the golf team who were placed fourth nationally in the ISGA National Final.
