Haberdashers Askes Boys School

"Haberdashers' was the making of me."

George Garnett, Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford.

School Calendar 2007 - 2008

The School Calendar for 2008-9 will be published during the week commencing 28th July 2008.
If you urgently need to know the date of an event next year, please contact the school office on 020 8266 1700.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

August 2007

 

 

 

Thu

16

 

 

AS/A2 Level Results published

Thu

23

 

 

GCSE Results published

Mon

27

 

 

Bank Holiday

Tue

28

14.00

 

School Golf Day (Aldwickbury Park Golf Club)

 

 

 

 

Yr10 Navy Sailing Course

Wed

29

15.00

 

16+ Interviews TBC

Thur

30

10.00-12.00

 

Pre-Season Rugby Training

 

 

13.00-15.00

 

Pre-Season Rugby Training

Fri

31

10.00-12.00

 

Pre-Season Rugby Training

 

 

13.00-15.00

 

Pre-Season Rugby Training

 

 

 

 

New boys' Induction Day (11+, 13+, 16+)

 

 

 

 

 

September 2007

 

 

 

Sat

1

 

 

Senior Rugby Squad Pangbourne Festival

Sat-Sun

1-2

10.30-18.00

 

Maths Problem Solving Conference for U6 Double Mathematicians, London

Mon

3

8.50

 

Autumn Term Begins

 

 

8.50

 

Prep Autumn Term Begins for Years 3-6

Tue

4

 

 

Pre Prep Autumn Term Begins

Thu

6

19.30

 

6th form theatre trip - "Absurdities", Donmar Warehouse

Fri-Sun

7-9

 

 

Chapel Visit to Hilfield Priory

Sat

8

 

 

Rugby Club Day and Argentinian Barbeque

Mon

10

16.00

 

Deadline for Oxbridge Medical, Dental, Veterinary Science Applications

 

 

 

 

Mouthguard fittings

Tue

11

16.15

 

Mouthguard fittings

Wed

12

16.15

 

Prefects' Tea (Old Refectory)

Sun-Mon

16 - 17

 

 

U6 Geography fieldwork, Dorset

Mon

17

 

 

A2 Government & Politics visit to Parliament

Tue

18

a.m.

 

Mid YIS Tests (Year 7 and new Year 9)

Wed

19

a.m.

 

Vocational Guidance Tests (Yr11)

Thu

20

 

 

L6 Parents' Social Evening (Meadows, Joblings & Calverts)

Fri-Sun

21-23

 

 

Portsmouth Naval Regatta (CCF)

Fri-Sun

21-23

 

 

Mountaineering Club trip

Tue

25

 

 

Yr7 Screening stage 1

Wed

26

16.15

 

School Council meeting (Aske Hall)

 

 

19.30

 

6th form theatre trip - "Rhinoceros", Royal Court Theatre

Thu

27

 

 

L6 Parents' Social Evening (Strouts, Russells & Hendersons)

 

 

 

 

Army and Navy Club Reunion Dinner, St James's Square (CCF)

Sat

29

 

 

OPEN DAY @ Pre-Preparatory School

Sun

30

14.00-17.00

 

GCSE and A Level Art Trip to the National Gallery and NPG

 

 

 

 

Yr7 History Trip to Hastings

 

 

 

 

 

October 2007

 

 

 

Mon

1

 

 

Closing date for all US and foreign University applications

 

 

 

 

Drug Education Presentations by Jonnie Leach

Wed

3

19.30

 

6th form theatre trip - "Fragments", Young Vic

Thu

4

 

 

L6 Physics Workshop

 

 

 

 

Roman Catholic Mass (School Chapel)

 

 

16.15

 

Amanda Williams, Freelance Illustrator talk for art GCSE and A/AS Level pupils(Library)

Fri

5

 

 

Closing date for all UCAS Applications (non Oxbridge)

Sat-Sun

6-7

 

 

MUN trip to Cheadle Hulme

Sun

7

 

 

Yr7 History Trip to Hastings

Mon

8

16.00-17.15

 

Yr8 Art Gifted and Talented Group (Art Department)

Wed

10

19.15

 

6th form theatre trip - "Mask of The Red Death", BAC

Thu

11

 

 

Friday Timetable will be taught

 

 

19.00

 

'Families 7' Art and Design Exhibiton Private View (Bourne Hall)

Thu 11 Oct-Fri 23 Nov

 

'Families 7' Art and Design Exhibition (Bourne Hall)

Fri

12

 

 

FIELD DAY

 

 

 

 

Year 7 Screening stage 2

 

 

 

 

Yr8 visits to places of worship

 

 

 

 

Yr9 Day Trip to Bourlogne, France

Sat

13

13.00-16.00

 

OPEN DAY

Tue

16

p.m.

 

Donkin Cup Cross Country (Prep and Pre Prep)

 

 

19.30

 

Theatre trip - "Blood Brothers", Phoenix Theatre (Yr10 & 6th form)

Thu

18

19.30

 

Autumn Concert (Bourne Hall)

Thu-Thu

18-25

 

 

Yr9 French Exchange with L'Alma School, Paris (Away)

Fri-Sun

19-21

 

 

Millfield International Chess Tournament

Fri-Mon

19-22

 

 

MUN trip to Royal Russell School

Fri-Wed

19-24

 

 

Rugby Development Tour to Biarritz

Sat-Fri

20-26

 

 

Y5-U6 History trip to Leipzig-Dresden-Prague

Sat-Sat

20-27

 

 

Sixth Form study trip to Montpellier, France

Sat 20 Oct - Sat 3 Nov

 

Cricket development tour, Singapore and Malaysia

Sun

21

 

 

Fusiliers Competition, Frimley Park

Sun-Thu

21-25

 

 

U6 Spanish Trip to Seville

Sun-Fri

21-26

 

 

Junior Spanish Trip to Barcelona

Mon

22

 

 

Autumn Half Term Holiday Begins

Mon 29 Oct -Fri 2 Nov

 

Art Trip to Berlin

Wed

31

 

 

BMAT admissions test and history aptitude test

 

 

 

 

Oxford aptitude tests for various subjects

 

 

 

 

 

November 2007

 

 

 

Fri

2

 

 

Autumn Half Term Holiday Ends

Wed

7

19.30

 

11+ New Parents Evening

 

 

19.30

 

Theatre trip - "Warhorse", National Theatre (Yr10 & 6th form)

Thu

8

 

 

Senior Maths Challenge

Fri

9

 

 

CCf Remembrance Parade and Tea

Sun

11

 

 

Remembrance Sunday

Mon

12

 

 

Remembrance Assembly (Yrs 7-9)

 

 

16.00-17.15

 

Yr8 Art Gifted and Talented Group (Art Department)

 

 

18.00

 

U6 Parents' Evening

Tue

13

10.00

 

Remembrance Assembly (Yrs 10,11 & Sixth Form)

Thu

15

 

 

Year 9 Social

Mon-Fri

19 - 23

 

 

DT Exhibition (Old Refectory)

Tue

20

19.30-21.00

 

DT Exhibition Private View (Old Refectory)

Tue-Mon

20-26

 

 

History Trip to Leipzig, Dresden and Prague

Wed

21

16.15

 

School Council Meeting (Aske Hall)

 

 

20.00

 

Theatre trip - "The Woman in Black", Fortune Theatre (Yr9 & 6th form)

Thu

22

13.20

 

Science Society - Buncefield Explosion

Sat

24

 

 

Headmasters' Dinner Dance

Sun

25

10.00-18.00

 

Senior Play - Technical Rehearsal

Mon

26

9.30-19.00

 

Senior Play - Dress Rehearsal

Tue

27

 

 

Blood Donation Day

 

 

19.30

 

Senior Play (Bourne Hall)

Wed

28

19.30

 

Junior Concert (Seldon Hall)

 

 

19.30

 

Senior Play (Bourne Hall)

Thu

29

19.30

 

Senior Play (Bourne Hall)

Fri

30

19.30

 

Senior Play (Bourne Hall)

Thu 29 Nov-Sun 2 Dec

 

Paris MUN

 

 

 

 

 

December 2007

 

 

 

Mon

3

16.00-17.15

 

Yr8 Art Gifted and Talented Group (Art Department)

Wed

5

16.15

 

Advent Carol Service (Chapel)

 

 

19.30

 

Prep School Words & Music (Prep School Hall)

Thu

6

18.00

 

L6 Parents' Evening

 

 

19.30

 

Prep School Words & Music (Prep School Hall)

Fri

7

14.00-16.00

 

Carol Service Final Rehearsal (Seldon Hall)

Sun

9

 

 

Yr10 Geography Field Work - Chilterns (optional)

Mon

10

14.30-15.45

 

Carol Service (St Albans Cathedral)

 

 

20.00

 

Senior Commendation (Seldon Hall)

 

 

 

 

NO SCHOOL FOR PREP & PRE PREP BOYS

Thu

13

 

 

Boys' Christmas Lunch

Fri

14

 

 

Autumn Term Ends

 

 

 

 

 

January 2008

 

 

 

Fri

4

09.00-16.00

 

11+ Examination

 

 

 

 

13+ Examination

Mon

7

8.50

 

Spring Term Begins - Main School & Pre-Prep School

 

 

 

 

NO SCHOOL FOR PREP BOYS

 

 

 

 

7+ Entrance Examination

Tue

8

8.50

 

Spring Term Begins - Prep School

Fri

11

 

 

11+ Supplementary Exam

Sat-Tue

12-22

 

 

6th Form Dusseldorf Work Experience exchange (Home)

Mon

14

 

 

7+ Supplementary Exam

Wed

16

19.30

 

Theatre trip - "Billy Elliot", Victoria Palace (All yrs)

Wed-Tue

16-22

9.30-16.30

 

11+ Interviews

Thu

17

19.30

 

Orchestral Concert (Seldon Hall)

Sun

20

10.00-18.00

 

Orchestral Day (Music School)

Wed

23

 

 

Year 10 Parents' Evening including GCSE Advice

Thu

24

16.15

 

U6 Review Meeting (Court Room)

 

 

 

 

Navy Club Officers' Dinner, Mayfair

Thu-Fri

24-25

 

 

7+ Interviews

Sat 26 Jan-Fri 1 Feb

 

 

The Hague MUN

Mon

28

 

 

7+ Interviews

Tue

29

 

 

Year 11 Parents' Evening

Thu

31

 

 

13+ Interviews

 

 

 

 

British Maths Olympiad 2

 

 

 

 

 

February 2008

 

 

 

Wed

6

19.30

 

Wind Bands Concert (Bourne Hall)

Thu

7

 

 

Pre-Prep School Closed

 

 

 

 

Intermediate Maths Challenge

 

 

 

 

Year 8 Parents' Evening

 

 

 

 

7+ Acceptances due

Fri

8

 

 

Pre-Prep School Closed

Fri-Sun

8-10

 

 

L6 Physics Trip to CERN, Geneva

Sun-Sun

10-17

 

 

Senior School & Snow Board Trip to Serre Chevalier, France

Mon

11

 

 

Half Term Holiday Begins

 

 

 

 

Golf Tour to Vilamoura, Portugal TBC

Fri

15

 

 

Half Term Holiday Ends

Sat-Tue

16-19

 

 

CCF Tri-Service Winter Training, Norway

Mon

18

 

 

INSET DAY - Main School Only

Tue

19

 

 

Monday timetable to be taught

Thu

21

 

 

Year 9 Parents' Evening

Sun

24

10.00-16.00

 

Symphony Orchestra Day (Music School)

Fri

29

 

 

Royal Academy Life Drawing Workshop all day for GCSE, A/AS Level pupils

 

 

 

 

SNCO Dinner, Tower of London

 

 

 

 

 

March 2008

 

 

 

Sun

2

14.00-17.00

 

GCSE and A Level Art Trip to the Tate Modern and Tate Britain

Tue

4

19.30

 

Keyboard Concert (Seldon Hall)

Fri

7

 

 

Prep & Pre-Prep School INSET - No School for Boys

 

 

13.30-15.45

 

English Literature trial exam (Bourne Hall)

 

7-8

 

 

RAF Duke of Edinburgh Pre-Bronze Expedition to Ampthill

Sun

9

14.30-17.00

 

Choral Rehearsal (Music School)

Tue

11

 

 

U6 Geography Field Work - Docklands

Thu

13

13.10-14.00

 

Professor Anthony Slinn Art Lecture (Aske Hall)

 

 

 

 

Yr7 Parents' Evening

 

 

 

 

Intermediate Maths Olympiad and Kangaroo (IMOK) Olympiad Paper

 

 

 

 

Friday timetable to be taught

Fri

14

 

 

FIELD DAY

 

 

 

 

CCF Biennial General Inspection

Fri-Sun

14-16

 

 

Haileybury MUN

Sat

15

 

 

Bridge - Schools' Cup

Sat-Mon

15-17

 

 

L6 Geography Fieldwork - Dorset

Mon

17

16.15

 

Yr11 Review Meeting (Old Refectory)

 

 

18.00-20.00

 

Choral Concert Dress Rehearsal (Bourne Hall)

Mon-Sun

17-20

 

 

St Andrew's MUN

Tue

18

19.30

 

Spring Choral & Orchestral Concert (Bourne Hall)

Thu

20

 

 

Spring Term Ends

Fri

21

 

 

Good Friday / Holiday

Sat-Thu

22-27

 

 

Russian History Trip to Moscow and St Petersburg

Sun

23

 

 

Easter Day / Holiday

Tue-Mon

25-31

 

 

CCF Tri-Service Adventure Training Camp to Otterburn

Thu 27 Mar to Thu 3 April

 

Athletics Warm Weather Training, Club La Santa in Lanzarote

Fri 28 Mar to Fri 4 April

 

Junior School School Trip to Chatel, Portes du Soleil, France

Sat 29 Mar to Sun 6 Apr

 

6th Form Dusseldorf Work Experience exchange (away)

Sat 29 Mar to Tue 8 Apr

 

Middle School exchange to Stuttgart (away)

TBC

 

 

 

Senior Football tour to Holland

 

 

 

 

 

April 2008

 

 

 

Mon

14

 

 

Summer Term Begins

Mon-Sat

21-26

 

 

Prep School Yr6 Field Study Week @ Preston Montford

Wed

23

p.m.

 

HABERDASHERS' CO DEPUTATION DAY

 

 

19.30

 

Guitar and Percussion Concert (Seldon Hall)

Thu

24

 

 

Intermediate Maths Olympiad and Kangaroo (IMOK) Olympiad Paper

Fri-Sun

25-27

 

 

Mountaineering Club Trip

 

 

 

 

 

May 2008

 

 

 

Thu

1

 

 

Junior Maths Challenge

 

 

9.00-16.00

 

GCSE and Ceramics Art Examinations

 

 

9.00-16.00

 

GCSE and Ceramics Art Examinations

Fri

2

 

 

CCF Photograph

Mon

5

 

 

Bank Holiday

Tue

6

 

 

Prep School Exams - Week 1 (Years 3 only)

 

 

 

 

Yr 10 Geography Fieldwork - Watford

 

 

 

 

Monday timetable to be taught

 

 

9.00-16.00

 

AS and A2 Art Examinations

Wed

7

9.00-16.00

 

AS and A2 Art Examinations

 

 

19.15

 

Prefects' Dinner

Thu

8

19.30

 

Summer Concert (Bourne Hall)

Fri

9

 

 

L6 Block Leave/Yr11 Block Leave starts TBC

 

 

9.00-16.00

 

AS and A2 Art Examinations

 

 

13.25

 

Big Band on the Quad

 

 

p.m.

 

CCF Open Afternoon

Sat

10

10.00-17.00

 

Junior Play - Technical Rehearsal

Sun

11

10.00-17.00

 

Junior Play - 2nd Technical Rehearsal

 

 

16.00-20.00

 

Junior Play - Rehearsal

Mon

12

 

 

Prep School Exams - Week 2 Yr6 - Key Stage II exams

 

 

16.00-20.30

 

Junior Play Dress Rehearsal

 

 

19.30

 

Confirmation Evening

Tue

13

19.30

 

Junior Play (Drama Studio)

Wed