Kingsley ended the Lent Term on a high, as Mr Banks announced in front of his peers that he had earnt himself an Academic Scholarship to Harrow School.
Happy and a little surprised he had finally reached the goal he’d be working towards for so long, Kingsley recounted the assessment process he undertook to get there. ‘When I first opened the general paper at Harrow, I couldn’t see how I was going to get any marks! Then I thought to myself, I have to give it a go and I changed my mindset; obviously it turned out to be alright in the end’. The part that Kingsley found the hardest was the time pressure, meaning he had to use all the techniques he had learnt over the last couple of year to narrowly finish the papers in time.
‘If I had to give one piece of advice to someone undertaking an Academic Scholarship, it would be not to stress too much about every little detail when revising. You can’t waste all your time perfecting everything, instead you need to broadly learn it all as you don’t know what will come up.’
Ma’am Naidoo is credited with keeping Kingsley on track, but he also thanked Mr Holyland and Ma’am Hellings. The former for building his confidence and giving him lots of essay practice, and the latter for delivering great advice and always being around to help him when he needed it.
Whilst Kingsley will miss Caldicott, ‘I wish I could stay for a few more years’, he is very much looking forward to the extra opportunities that Harrow will provide. One part he is particularly keen to get stuck into is the rugby, where he wants to build on the joy and success he has had on Top Field for Caldicott.
