2022 Heritage Leaver Mara Pintece was recently recognised in this year’s Cambridge Classical Association Reading Competition, where she prepared and performed  a passage, in the original Latin, from ‘The Metamorphoses’ – a narrative poem written  by Roman poet Ovid over 2,000 years ago. Mara, who is currently studying A-Level Latin  at King’s Ely, entered the ‘Senior Verse’ category of the competition, which was held at the Cambridge University Faculty of Classics. She earned a ‘Highly Commended’ award for her performance, based on her pronunciation, scansion, and how well she performed and reflected the content of the poem.

And in another classical languages achievement, Catherine Rudge, also a 2022 Heritage Leaver, has been awarded first place in the Senior Greek Verse category of this year’s CAS Reading Competition at the University of Cambridge. Catherine is currently a Sixth Form pupil at the Leys, studying Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Greek. Mr Burden has clearly been preparing his pupils well for studying  the classics!

This past summer, Heritage Alumnae Laura Burton earned a bronze for Great Britain at the World Rowing U19 Championships in Italy. During the women’s quadruple sculls final, she and her crew finished in an impressive 6 minutes 33.54 seconds, closely following behind first place Romania and second place Germany. This most recent victory for Laura comes after a busy 2021, during which she won in the girls’ singles sculls title at the National Schools Regatta in May and was selected for the British Rowing U19 squad winter training camp in December. Laura, a 2020 Heritage Leaver, attended sixth form at The Perse and is currently spending her gap year with the Leander Club’s prestigious rowing  programme in Henley.