Enthusiasm and great concentration led to a performance from a ‘scratch choir’ of Paulines that won one of the two Palladian Vocal Ensemble competitions on 29 August in the USU Refectory. Just over 100 Paulines joined forces to create the largest ensemble of voices for a Palladian team. This choir sang Kircher’s Cornerstone accompanied by our own Organ Scholar Bailey Yeates on piano. Quite frankly most of the singers are not choristers and had never done this before, they did have some expert support amongst them with the 17 resident members of the St Paul’s College Choir and all were under the direction and tutelage of our Director of Music Jack Stephens. Congratulations well deserved for an amazing effort and an emotionally charged and fine performance.

The smaller ensemble scored a highly commended singing Words by the Real Group in close harmony. It was impossible to tell the top performers apart – all of them were so good!

DEBATING: St Andrews 1st | St Paul’s 2nd | Wesley 3rd

ART: Women’s 1st | St John’s 2nd | Sancta 3rd

There is more excitement than ever-before in the Palladian Cup in 2024. The current point scores have St Paul’s and St Andrew’s ‘neck-and-neck’.

Palladian point scores sit at: St Andrew’s 13 | St Paul’s 11 | Women’s 8 | St John’s 8 | Sancta 4 | Wesley 4