Welcome to the Fifth Year Blog!
What a great pleasure it has been to work with you all over the past five and a half terms. You haven’t always got everything right, but none of us do! Overall, you have been a great credit to Hampton and I am very proud of you. Clearly, thoughts are firmly on the upcoming exam season. Ultimately, I hope each of you can look back on this experience and reflect that you tried your best, which is all anyone can ever ask. It will be a stressful period and the last thing we want is for anyone to put too much pressure on themselves or to burn out. It will be wonderful to see happy pupils on Thursday 20 August but, even where there are disappointments, we must remember that these are redeemable, and that life goes on. Exam results are important, but far more important is that you are all fabulous young people on your way to becoming kind and altruistic members of society and I have seen abundant evidence of this.
So, Fifth Years, I hope you have enjoyed your time at Hampton so far, I hope you have made friendships which will last for life, and I hope you will be kind to yourselves and of course work hard, but also maintain some perspective and balance on what is important in life. If we can do anything to help, we will.
Good luck!
Mr Malston
5A
What a two years it has been! As a Form, you have a been a privilege to work with, and it has been great to see you grow both as individuals and as a group of friends. You have always been a cheery and cheeky bunch, which has made Form Time a fun experience. You are a slight throwback as a Form Group, not obsessed by TikTok or gaming, but rather more interested in making card schools and drawing fantasy football formations on the board every breaktime. What has been your crowning achievement as a Form Group is the back-to-back Interform Champions, under the stewardship of Aarav. Whilst you are not always the most skilful in the sports, you always turn up as a great team which has been the core of your success as a group, and if you remember this throughout your life, you will never go far wrong.
Good luck with all your exams, and we hope you enjoy your long, deserved summer after them.
Don’t be strangers in the corridor when you see us!
All the best
Mr Hall & Mr Towl
5B
You might have ‘B’ in your name, 5B, but, in my eyes, you have all been nothing but ‘A’ team material from September 2024 onwards. We may not have topped the interform charts, but there have certainly been some memorable moments and performances. The interform rowing stands out as an occasion where so many of you showed your grit and determination and the contributions you made to the forums (especially those of you who led them) mark you out as future leaders. Many of you have shown resilience, from overcoming challenges in particular subjects to overcoming serious injuries. Above all, what is most impressive is your positive outlook, your love of fun and your passion for whiteboard art (no further comment needed!) And, who could forget our penguin and our tomato plant? I’d say good luck to you all but, you make your own luck really, and I know you are all doing this by working hard.
See you on results day!
Mrs Morse
5C
Well… where do we even start?
Two years (and for some of you, even longer) of what can only be described as organised chaos, questionable humour, and — every now and then — genuine moments of brilliance. It has honestly been a pleasure watching you grow from excitable boys into young men who (mostly) know when to be sensible… emphasis on mostly.
You’ve brought energy to every Form Time — whether that’s through your unwavering commitment to conversations that start somewhere sensible and end absolutely nowhere, or your ability to extract just enough wisdom from PSHE. I’m still not entirely convinced how much of those TED Talks actually landed, but I live in hope that somewhere between the discussions, debates, and the occasional tangent, a few key life lessons stuck: go out into the world, do good, back yourselves, and — crucially — be consistently good people. Not just when it suits, but all the time.
What has stood out most is how much you’ve developed. There’s been real growth — in your confidence, in how you carry yourselves, and in how you look out for one another. That shift from boys to young men hasn’t happened overnight, but it has happened, and it’s been great to witness. You’re a group with character, personality, and a strong sense of identity — and that will take you a long way.
As you head into exams, remember this: you are more capable than you sometimes give yourselves credit for. Back your preparation, stay composed, and trust that the work you’ve put in will show. Then enjoy what is a very well-earned summer — you’ve more than earned the chance to switch off (within reason…).
And genuinely — don’t be strangers. It’s been a privilege.
All the best,
Mr Cumberbatch & Mr Bradley
5D
Best of luck with everything, 5D! It’s been a pleasure getting to know you all better this year and I hope everything goes well for you this summer and beyond. You have all worked incredibly hard and you deserve every success that comes your way.
Best wishes
Mrs Bedford
Thank you to 5D for one of my favourite memories of Hampton so far….when we sat, in support of one of our tutees, and watched their chess in the same way that we might watch a soccer match.
All the best to you all for the future. It will be bright, no doubt.
Mr Lee
5E
On paper a dream team and in person a dream team, a lovely bunch who in the majority got it right and navigated right from wrong in a personable and humorous manner. Regrettably, detentions have got in the way of you conquering all before you as well as a lack of attendance at a few interforms… You’ve had a number of Form Tutors along the way and recently the sad loss of Mr Gray showed the fantastic relationship and admiration you had for him and which I know he had for you all. Having worked with you and Mr Gray for a year as your Form Tutor I could see how much pleasure Mr Gray took from working with you (and persevering with some of you!) and how eager, in spite of his illness, he was to still spend time in the Form and see you all, as well as ensure you were all maximising your extraordinary potential both in the classroom and outside across the numerous co-curricular activities you all take part in. On that note, the potential you have needs now to be realised, please do study hard over these last few weeks and approach the exams with the confidence and resoluteness that will help you all achieve the results you deserve.
Following that, have a fantastic extended and well-deserved summer holidays.
I look forward to seeing you in the Sixth Form and for those of you leaving, I wish you all the very best in the future.
Mr Hooper
5F
Boys, it has been an absolute pleasure to share the last two years of your Hampton journey with you. We have found it immensely rewarding to see you develop into such mature, kind and humbly confident young men and we’re excited to see all of the wonderful things you’ll go on to pursue and achieve in the Sixth Form. We have genuinely looked forward to seeing you each morning (and our routine of tackling ‘Wordle’, ‘Worldle’ and ‘Clasherdle’) and just know that everything we asked of you we asked because our only interest is in supporting you to maximise the enjoyment and reward you get out of your Hampton experience. So, it’s not goodbye, but ‘see you soon’ as we’ll no doubt cross paths a great deal in the Sixth Form.
One final piece of advice: continue to unapologetically be your kind, ambitious and – quite frankly – hilarious selves; as Oscar Wilde once said, “everyone else is already taken!”
Mr Leafe
5G
Well, here we are! It’s been an amazing two years being your Form Tutors, with all the ups and downs that goes with the “GCSE years”.
We wanted to thank you for being a wonderful Form. We have both thoroughly enjoyed getting to know each of you, and it’s been a privilege to support you through a very important period of your time here at Hampton. Your many talents have wowed us on a regular basis – from excelling in sport to the amazing musical contributions and drama performances. Your thoughtful, mature discussions during PSHE make us hopeful for the future – when you are all in charge!
To those of you who are leaving Hampton – we wish you all the best for your future, and we are sure you will be a success at whatever you do.
And for those who will be in the Sixth Form next year – we hope to see you in our lessons, or on the sports pitch, on the stage or just around the School in general. Please still say hello to us!
Finally, we wish you all the very best for the next few weeks of exams and a wonderful summer holiday beyond!
Best Wishes
Mr Trivedi & Mrs Nicholson
5H
Well done for all your hard work this year. Good luck for your exams, have a lovely summer, and all the best for Sixth Form when it arrives!
Miss Alishaw
5J
We may not have been the form who scored the highest in each of the interform quizzes, nor came first in every interform sporting endeavour. Never mind! There are certain things to which you cannot attach a numeric value: friendship, kindness, compassion, character, humour, empathy, resilience, and an ability for understanding which things truly matter in life. If there were a leader board for these qualities, 5J would have been the reigning champions from the first day of the Fourth Year to the final day of the Fifth Year.
Don’t be a stranger,
Mr Bracken, Mr Larking (& Mr Rudajev)
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