On Saturday 13th June, 11 WHS debaters congregated with GDST students and their partner schools from across the country to take part in a rigorous competition. Motions included “This House Regrets the Explosion in Popularity of Romantisy,” “This House Opposes the Stigmatisation of Being Very Online,” and more. How would you have approached these? For the first motion, Bhairavi and I opened as Government, arguing that literature offers marginal gains regardless of genre or movement. If you find yourself forming a strong counterargument right now, debating might just be for you!
Unconquered Peaks by the Numbers
As someone going on to study political science, I’ve always liked numbers. Not in the mathematical sense, that’s a different story, but the kind that say something about the world: polling percentages, voting trends, approval ratings. Give me a good statistic and I’m happy. So, when I started thinking about how to capture what this newspaper has meant both to me and to the WHS community as my time as editor comes to a close, it felt natural to begin the only way I knew how: by trying to put it into numbers.
Charities Visit to Everyone’s Invited
Last week a group of us had the chance to visit the office of Everyone’s Invited (the Middle School charity). During our time there we were able to learn more about the charity, its foundations and the valuable work it has achieved.
Charity Fair Message
A message from the Heads of Charities Lila Henderson and Jemima Bennett on this year’s Summer Charity Fair:
An overview of Year Group Charities 2022/23
This academic year, each year group took careful consideration with choosing their year group charities, through filling out the form to show initial interests and then deciding from the shortlist. Given we never announced the results of each year group charity in assembly, I thought it would be useful to write an article summarising each of the charities, their focus areas and work they do.

