British public school (Public School) is known as the "living fossil of education", the public school has a long history, first-class teachers, academic achievements, outstanding academic achievements, outstanding school achievements, known as the cradle of the elite, every year will be for Niu Jian and other world's top schools to send a large number of students.
Today, there is no british public school that is famous in the UK and even in the world than the "Nine Public Schools":
Eton College,
Charterhouse,
Harrow School,
Winchester College,
Westminster School,
Rugby School,
Shrewsbury School,
Merchant Taylors' School
and St Paul's School.
Westminster College
One of the oldest private schools in the UK
As one of the Nine Universities, Westminster College (also known as Westminster College) is one of the oldest and top private schools in the UK. Today's Westminster College is located in the heart of the city of London, the Westminster Abbey dedicated area, where countless British kings have held coronation ceremonies, and Prince William and Princess Kate have also held weddings here.
Westminster dates back to 1179, when it was a small charity school built by Benedictine monks in Westminster Abbey.
Source: Westminster College official website
In 1540, after the dissolution of the monastery, King Henry VIII personally decreed to ensure the survival of the school.
In 1560, Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, issued the Royal Charter for the Reconstruction of the Westminster College and granted royal patronage.
Elizabeth I allowed Westminster College to continue to this day, and is therefore known as the founder of Westminster College.
For a hundred years, Westminster College belonged to the Royal Chapel of Westminster Abbey until the Public School Act was enacted in 1868, when Westminster College became independent.
But since then, the school has remained on its original site, the only school in London that has been running on the site of its founding school for hundreds of years, and has always maintained a close relationship with Westminster Abbey and the British Royal Family.
Source: Westminster College Official Website Source: Westminster College Official Website
Westminster College is a boarding and full-time school that was founded as a boys' school. In 1973, Westminster College expanded its enrollment to include girls over the age of 16, becoming a coeducational school ever since.
As a public school with a long history and academic excellence, Westminster has cultivated countless elite talents in the course of nearly 900 years of history, including British prime ministers, Nobel laureates, famous architects, composers, writers and so on.
More than half of the students achieved an A-Level score*
Oxbridge conveyor
The School of Westminster is one of the most academically outstanding of its many schools, with more than half of its students receiving A-Level or above for 10 consecutive years.
In 2019, for example, 55.47% of Westminster College students received an A* score, and in the A-Level/Pre-U program, 84 out of 195 students received at least 3 A*, of which 36 students received 4 A*.
Westminster College 2019 A-Level Results Source: Westminster College official website
Westminster College 2019 Pre-U Results Source: Westminster College official website
Due to its excellent academic performance, Westminster College has repeatedly won the first prize in the promotion rate of Niu Jian.
In 2018, Westminster College's ox sword acceptance rate was 32%, ranking first.
In 2019, westminster college cattle sword acceptance rate reached 50%, while the second place public school cattle sword acceptance rate was only 33%.
In 2020, the admission rate of Westminster College is about 35.7%, 39 of the 199 graduates are admitted to Cambridge University, 32 are admitted to Cambridge University, in addition, students have also received admission to the world's top universities including G5 in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Tradition and innovation go hand in hand
Academics, arts and sports are equally important
Westminster College is committed to developing a love of scholarship and respect for traditional scholarship, while also encouraging students to remain open to new and innovative thinking.
The reason why students have performed well in the exam and successfully entered the world's famous universities stems from their love for academic learning, they are full of curiosity and enthusiasm for subject knowledge, and every student shines in their field of love.
Westminster College hopes that each student will not only have outstanding academic performance, give full play to their talents, but also pursue a healthy and comprehensive lifestyle, so the school has customized a strict time planning schedule for students to ensure that each student can maximize the use of time and develop good learning and living habits.
Each year, Westminster College holds the John Locke Lecture Series, inviting renowned speakers from business, politics, culture, the military, the arts and academia.
Such as Simon Schama, British historian, lecturer in art history at Columbia University, BBC documentary narrator, New Yorker literary commentator; Nick Clegg, British politician, currently Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications; Lucy D"Orsi, senior coordinator of national protection and security in the UK; and Dominic Grieve, British Conservative MP. And other well-known figures have been guests in Westminster and gave speeches.
Simon Schama
(First from the left)
Nick Clegg (second from left)
Dominic Grieve (first from right)
Source: Network
Participation in music, arts and drama activities can fully stimulate students' creativity and innovation ability and build students' self-confidence, improve their communication skills and empathy skills. Participation in arts activities can also have a positive impact on students' academic performance, increasing their interest in and performance in other subjects.
It turns out that creativity is one of the five most important skills business leaders want to see when recruiting new talent in this day and age; and research shows that Nobel laureates are 17 times more likely to actively participate in the arts than the average scientist.
Exclusive art studios, perfect facilities and equipment, highly diversified art teacher teams, etc. provide students with space for bold imagination and experimentation. Westminster College offers courses in art, music and drama, a public exhibition area for outstanding works, and an annual Summer Show to recognize students with academic excellence and publish the school's creative magazine for that year.
At Westminster College, the school community gathers to sing together every week, students and staff sing twice a week at Westminster Abbey, and the school regularly organizes students to perform in the square. The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of music and has produced many well-known musicians.
Westminster College Choir
Known on campus, Westminster College's athletic program offers more than 25 different sports activities for students, with Tuesday and Thursday afternoons each week as exclusive exercise time for students.
Professional coaches are invited to guide students in safe and effective training, and some of them have also represented the UK in international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
Through continuous professional training and practice, Westminster College students have won numerous awards in fencing, judo, rock climbing and rowing competitions.
Westminster College students compete in rowing competitions
Rowing wins the school representative color
Confession Tuesday grab pancakes
Each historic school has some interesting little historical stories and will also preserve some strange traditions, such as the "straw hat" of Harrow Middle School and the "squash" of Eton College.
Enter the official website of Westminster and you will find that the web page is full of pink borders, which is the "standard color" of Westminster College.
This is related to the founder of the school, Elizabeth I, who planted pink roses that the Queen liked in the Westminster Public School Garden, so Westminster College adopted pink as the standard color of the school.
There is also a long-standing little story about the establishment of the standard color of the school. Westminster College is said to have gained the right to use pink as the standard color in a contest.
In the intercollegiate rowing competition of 1837, Westminster and Eton college wore pink clothes that were popular at the time, and Eton College bought some light blue ribbons to distinguish them. In this rowing competition, Westminster College won the final victory, so it was able to use pink as the standard color, while Eaton School later used light blue as the school's representative color.
The College of Westminster also retains an ancient tradition of celebrating on Confession Tuesday every year, which began in 1753. At the beginning of the event, the chef will throw a piece of pancake fixed with horsehair on the table, and students can compete for this pancake within a minute, and the student who finally gets the largest pancake block will be rewarded.
Westminster School
epilogue
The essence of Westminster College's centennial education stems from the eternal values written in the charter letter when Queen Elizabeth I rebuilt the school in 1560: the way of a young adult, like the spring of the country, when receiving a free and enlightened education, carry forward the glory of the country.
For Westminster College, its glorious long history, shining alumni, open and inclusive learning atmosphere, the exploration and love of knowledge conveyed, and the cultivation of personal talents are its unique temperament and spirit. In the future, it will continue to shine in the long river of history.