Chronicle April 2016

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waste (see page 12). Films with the
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pupil film unit Teddies on Camera.
It is always a great treat to reach the
Summer Term and the focus it brings to
our academic endeavours.
The academic life of the School features
highly in this edition with the unveiling of
our proposed development of the Quad,
including a striking new Academic Centre and
Library (pages 4 & 5), and a major piece on
preparing for a career in Medicine following
Word from theWarden
a conference organised by James Vaughan-
Fowler, Head of Careers. Five women came
to talk to pupils about their experiences of
working in different areas of Medicine – we
welcomed an ethics specialist, a consultant
pathologist, a consultant breast surgeon, a
lecturer in pathology and a senior research
nurse. Although the speakers were part of a
group promoting women in science, our boys
also attended, and both boys and girls have
written up their thoughts – see pages 10 & 11.
The work of our Careers Department
is in stark contrast to a recent study by the
Association of Employment and Learning
Providers which said that the quality and
availability of information, advice and guidance
is ‘a very serious concern’. This follows a
Daily Telegraph survey at the end of last year
which found that ‘nearly half of teachers
believe that careers advice offered by schools
is inadequate or poor’. Here at St Edward’s
we take the careers function very seriously;
we appointed James Vaughan Fowler, a
Members of a Very
Noble Friendship
A new book by school Archivist
Christopher Nathan OSE
On 4th August 1914, when the Great War
broke out, the 40-strong OTC force were
attending their annual camp at Tidworth. The
announcement that hostilities were about to
begin spread like wildfire; life would never be
the same again. 673 members of the School’s
community went into uniform over these
years. 121 OSE and three teachers were
lost and many more wounded - some many
times over.
This book
describes
what occurred
in those
tumultuous
times, both
at the various
battle stations
all over the
world and
also back
in Oxford.
The book will be available to purchase
from July priced at £15 + £4.95
for postage and packing within the UK.
To purchase a copy, for details
of international postage costs or to
arrange collection from the School,
please contact the OSE Office on
or
01865 319362.
Warden Ferguson faced enormous
challenges at the School with the constant
exodus of key people, as well as having to
announce in Chapel the lists of those lost,
often with siblings in the congregation.
Big School (now the Library and Old Library) in 1916
professional head-hunter, several years
ago. Mr Vaughan Fowler has been doing an
extraordinary job revolutionising careers advice
for pupils and I have no doubt that we are well
ahead of the crowd in this particular area.
Elsewhere, we focus on this year’s school
charity, Restore, which supports people with
mental health problems in Oxfordshire. We
also enjoy a lively account of the cricket tour to
Barbados by Jonny Nelmes and an entertaining
retrospective celebrating the 40th anniversary
of John Wiggins’ first boat race win for Oxford
in 1976. The BBC spent some six months
following the preparations and selection of the
Oxford crew all the way through to the race
itself – copyright complications permitting, we
hope highlights of the footage will be available
soon on Teddies TV.
Stephen Jones
Front cover: James Curtis and Brandon Allen
in Barbados by Simon Hipwell