Student Leadership In the summer term of Year 12, school prefects are selected. Leadership roles amongst the prefects now include the head boy, two deputy head boys, the chairman of the school council, the parents' association and Old Skinners' Society liaison prefect, two senior prefects and five house captains. Other school prefects are divided between the roles of duty prefect and form prefect. There are usually approximately sixteen form prefects, who take responsibility for a year eight or year seven form, two to a form. Boards in School Hall denote previous positions of importance including Head Boys and CCF Commanding Officers. Until recently boys who earned a place at an Oxford or Cambridge college would have their name added to the university honours board although that practice has now been ceased due to the volume of boys gaining Oxbridge places each year. In recent years, enthusiastic science students in the sixth form independently took it upon themselves to write and distribute an online science magazine about topics that interested them. Notable former pupils The Leopard song The Skinners' School, like many schools started by London livery companies, has a school song. The lyrics are by Percy Shaw Jeffrey and appeared in the school magazine December 1894, and are as follows: 1 Now hands about, good Leopards all, And sing a rousing chorus, In praise of all our comrades here And those who went before us; For to this lay all hearts beat true, The gallant hearts that love us, So fortune 'fend each absent friend While there's a sun above us. Chorus Sing Leopards Sing (Breathe) Floreat Sodalitas. Little matter, well or ill, Sentiment is more than skill, Sing together with a will Floreat Sodalitas, 'dalitas Pardorum. 2 The ivy climbs by brick and stone About the buttressed Hall; So memory weaves a charm to keep Her servitors in thrall. And whiskered leopards think with awe Of Bab-el-Mandeb's Straits Where in the days of long ago They wrestled with the fates. (Chorus) 3 Then here's a toast before we part, "The School House by the Lew" And may its friends be stout of heart, Its enemies be few So we will pledge our noble selves To use our best endeavour, That while the merry world goes round The School may stand forever! (Chorus) Meanings in the song The song contains two lines in Latin: Floreat Sodalitas and 'dalitas Pardorum. Floreat