As is traditional at Caldicott, every boy from the 3rd Form upwards learnt a poem by heart this term to recite to their English class. A selection of those who performed well from each year group were put through to the semi-finals and on Wednesday 25th January the Declamations final was held in the Centenary Hall. The audience comprised teachers, boarders, parents and this year's adjudicator, Mr Tom Wayman, Head of English at Wellington College.

Every boy gave a memorable performance and the range of poetry chosen was vast; upbeat, playful pieces such as Microsoft Christmas contrasted heavily with more sobering choices such as Mid-Term Break. The evening closed with a moving and utterly silencing extract from Clive Jermain's screenplay The Best Days of Your Life declaimed by C White. 

Mr Wayman then came forward to give each boy individual feedback on his declamation and choose a winner and a runner up from each year group as well as an overall winner. He was also allowed to award two special prizes, a junior one and a senior one, to those whose declamations stood out but did not qualify for any of the other prizes. The following were declared the winners of these prizes:
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From left to right: C White, G Bracken, T Ruhan, J Granville and M Stalder