These Girls Can!
Anna Mostyn in the Fifth Form and Lucy Kellock in the Upper Sixth have recently been involved in highly successful and deeply personal fundraising activities. Anna Mostyn explains the background to her...
View ArticleShell Plays 2015
Parents could have been forgiven for feeling somewhat disconcerted by this year’s Shell Plays on Sunday. As Lucy Maycock, Artistic Director of The North Wall, points out, ‘four Shells had been expelled...
View ArticlePangbourne Junior Sculls
Peter Rudge, Master i/c Rowing writes: The Boat Club had a busy day at Pangbourne on Saturday. In the morning the senior boys raced in both a quad and a coxed four. The coxed four came second behind...
View ArticleWest Side Story
Beth Steer writes: From the opening notes of the prologue, Rebecca Clark’s production of West Side Story crackles into life with an intensity and a fierce energy that kept the audience enthralled. The...
View ArticleSing’s 50th Anniversary Dinner
In the words of Coldplay: ‘It was all … yellow’. The sunniest of colours enjoyed a rare winter outing as Sing’s parents, staff and pupils came together on Saturday night to celebrate the House’s 50th...
View ArticleCheltenham College Gala
Casper Sunley, Captain of Swimming, writes: The 1st swimming team competed at Cheltenham College on 14th November – it was a truly fantastic event where the whole team was able to put down some really...
View ArticleMartyrs Rowing
The 2015 Wallingford Head of the River on Saturday, while frustrating for the school boats, was a new dawn for the Martyrs Boat Club. Not one, but two crews raced in the aptly named St Edward King and...
View ArticleBallet Recital
A highlight of the Autumn Term is the Ballet Recital given by all those taking ballet lessons in the school. There is a particularly strong group of ballet dancers in the Upper Sixth and they have...
View ArticleClimbing to Success
On Friday 27th November the climbing team entered their first competition of the season (possibly the first ever in the history of the School?!) at Big Rock in Milton Keynes. Competitors faced a series...
View ArticlePhysics Winners
On January 29th, two teams of five Shells were nominated by their Physics teachers to attend the annual Ogden Trust Key Stage 3 Challenge at the University of Oxford. Each team was presented with...
View ArticleThe Highland Fling
Jules Flory, Friends’ Committee, writes: It was with great amusement that the enthusiastic parents amongst us dug out our dancing pumps and tartan to join in the Highland Fling organised by the Friends...
View ArticleVisit by Simon Armitage
Most of us were apprehensive about meeting a poet as renowned as Simon Armitage, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, and were worried we would be expected to write a perceptive and original poem...
View ArticlePoetry by Heart
English Teacher, Finola Picknett, writes: Lizzie Davis represented the School at the Poetry by Heart competition, held at The Old Fire Station on Tuesday night. The competition was ferocious and...
View ArticleOrchestral Concert
Mark Sellen writes: From the moment the audience entered St Michael’s Church, Summertown, on Sunday evening they knew they were in for a real treat. The programme cover, showing the chronologically apt...
View ArticleOSE Jewellers’ Visit
On Saturday, OSE Sam Hunter, Becky Wilkes and Kitty Konsta came into School to talk to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Form jewellers about their experiences training in the jewellery sector since leaving...
View ArticleFun Fundraising for Barbados
Simon Roche, Master i/c Cricket, writes: Although it is usual for cricketers to hibernate in the winter, the last few weeks has been a hive of activity for the Cricket Club. They are touring to...
View ArticleJames Shone
On Tuesday 2nd February, James Shone visited St Edward’s to give a number of talks to groups of staff and pupils. James was a Housemaster at Monkton Combe School and was about to become Headmaster...
View ArticleHampton Head
Three crews were in action at Hampton yesterday for the first race of the term: the boys’ 1st VIII, and the boys’ and girls’ J15 VIII. All three categories had a high class entry with most of the top...
View ArticleAuschwitz-Birkenau
“It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say.”-Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor Sixth Former, Aaron Gruen, writes: Waking up at four o’clock in the morning is not...
View ArticleCapital Effort
Harry Mostyn, Apsley Head of House, writes: At 7.30am on Sunday, Apsley awoke – with a chorus of grunts – to the unwelcome sound of a large bell. However, the mood soon changed with a liberal daubing...
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