Westminster School

Westminster School Westminster School is one of the UK’s leading academic schools and the only ancient London school to occupy its original site.

W W W It's played three, won three to start the football season, with the boys' 1st XI (2-1), U15A (4-1) pictured, and U...
12/09/2026

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It's played three, won three to start the football season, with the boys' 1st XI (2-1), U15A (4-1) pictured, and U15B (3-2) all tasting victory at home to St Dunstan's.

It began and ended with cake. Jewish Society marked a sweet New Year at its first meeting of term on Rosh Hashanah.Jews ...
11/09/2026

It began and ended with cake.

Jewish Society marked a sweet New Year at its first meeting of term on Rosh Hashanah.

Jews and non-Jews alike shared cake before talking about the joys of a new year — new beginnings, personal change and hoping for better things to come.

Things then took a very Westminster turn, with a deep philosophical conversation about actions, consequences and forgiveness.

Then there was song. And then there was more cake.

Shanah tovah.

11/09/2026

From Abbey, through Dark Cloister to Yard, and straight to class.

“Within 100 years realism has killed romanticism, had a brief affair with symbolism and created modernism, in my opinion...
09/09/2026

“Within 100 years realism has killed romanticism, had a brief affair with symbolism and created modernism, in my opinion the most influential, and interesting movement in shaping modern global literature."

At the first LitSoc meeting of the year, Hermione (Remove, DD) took her audience on a cross-Channel journey, from the 19th century French symbolism of Stendhal, Flaubert and Baudelaire to the 20th century British / Irish modernism of Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, touching on the most significant intertextual, stylistic and thematic parallels between the great authors’ works.

It is never too wet to chess.
08/09/2026

It is never too wet to chess.

2026/27 SQUAD PHOTO800 players, coaches, tacticians, strategists, analysts and, of course, the gaffer, Dr Savage.A stron...
07/09/2026

2026/27 SQUAD PHOTO

800 players, coaches, tacticians, strategists, analysts and, of course, the gaffer, Dr Savage.

A strong group. Plenty of experience. Some exciting new signings.

We like to do things differently, so what could be more Westminster than beginning the School year on a Saturday?!Play T...
05/09/2026

We like to do things differently, so what could be more Westminster than beginning the School year on a Saturday?!

Play Term begins.

The dust has barely settled on A Level results, and we go again with GCSEs.This remains a big and broad challenge for ou...
20/08/2026

The dust has barely settled on A Level results, and we go again with GCSEs.

This remains a big and broad challenge for our 15- and 16-year olds, with ten or 11 subjects taken by all, most including multiple exams. Each pupil has shown great dedication, the capacity to soak up, process and draw interesting conclusions from vast amounts of information, a mastery of a complicated homework timetable, and the almost superhuman ability to get from Weston's to Hooke in time for the start of the lesson.

129 pupils were awarded 1,222 grades covering 24 different subjects: from the 'core' taken by almost all pupils (two Englishes, maths, French, and the three sciences), to the more specialist disciplines, the most niche of all being Japanese, with two students.

200 grades were awarded in seven modern languages; 130 in the three big humanities (geography, history, RS); 92 in the technical disciplines of computer science, electronics and 3D design; 56 in the arts (art, drama, music); and 38 in the classics (Latin and Classical Greek).

Across all examinations:
75% of grades were 9
91% were 9/8
97% were 9-7

27 pupils achieved straight 9 grades, with more than half earning all 9/8 grades.

Enjoy the last days of your summer holiday, and we'll see you in September for A Level study: just four subjects now!

The hard work was all theirs, and the rewards are now all theirs too. But we don't mind briefly basking in the reflected...
13/08/2026

The hard work was all theirs, and the rewards are now all theirs too. But we don't mind briefly basking in the reflected glow.

A few numbers on 2026.

207 Westminsters gained 801 grades, the vast majority taking four full A Levels, as remains the norm at Westminster, reflecting our commitment to academic breadth, intellectual challenge and preparation for highly competitive degree courses.

Between them, pupils studied 22 academic disciplines, from mathematics (181 pupils, with 89 also taking further maths) to Mandarin, taken by two pupils.

Seven of the 22 subjects studied were languages, both ancient and modern, with 28 pupils taking French and four studying Classical Greek.

Across all examinations:

58% of grades were A*
88% were A*/A
99% were A*-B

96 (46%) of pupils achieved at least three A* grades, while 53 (26%) received only A* grades.

So where next?

For most, to Russell Group universities across the UK. 169 of our 207 leavers will take up places at one of 15 Russell Group institutions, notably:

Oxford (43)
UCL (27)
Cambridge (24)
Imperial (23)
Durham (12)
Bristol (9)
Warwick (9)

30 will head across the Pond, to schools including seven of the eight Ivys (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Yale), Stanford, Chicago and Duke.

The courses are numerous and varied (with many making good use of all those maths A Levels): economics (33), sciences (29), engineering (18), maths (14), modern foreign languages (13), law (11), medicine or dentistry (11), English (8), history (8), computer science (6), classics (5).

To all our new Old Westminsters:

Enjoy today.
Embrace what comes next.
Work hard. Be curious. Think critically.
And don't forget: rigour and respect.

📷 Dante (Remove, AHH)

We love Westminster Phab, we love our environment, and we love the standard punny (phunny?) theme. So we very much enjoy...
22/07/2026

We love Westminster Phab, we love our environment, and we love the standard punny (phunny?) theme. So we very much enjoyed our 48th annual Phab:

PHLANET EARTH

Across the residential week, our 25 guests and their Sixth Former hosts celebrated Earth and all things on and in it, visiting the zoo, painting leaves, getting rid of rubbish and taking part in all sorts of product design, art, music and drama, including a reimagining of the Titanic had the iceberg melted due to climate change.

And of course the Phab mainstays of trips to see the sights, West End shows, film nights, karaoke, disco, and the end-of-the-week show.

One of the School’s long-standing outreach programmes, Westminster Phab fosters independence, inclusion, and confidence for guests, hosts and staff volunteers alike, and enables all participants to develop and explore their strengths in a different context.

For more information, visit www.westminster.org.uk/westminster-phab or tap the link in our profile.

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