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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
Low Island
Sponsorship of Oxford Rugby
Football Club is the latest in a string
of partnerships with local sports
teams. Bursar Stephen Withers
Green says, ‘We are a School at
the heart of a community and it’s
incredibly important to us that
we have meaningful links with the
clubs, organisations and people
at the heart of that community.’
In addition to sponsoring ORFC
(Teddies were the first opponents in
the Club’s first ever fixture back in
1910 – we’re pleased to report that
we won …), Teddies also supports,
in a variety of ways, Wolvercote
CC, Cherwell School, Hinksey
Sculling School (a community rowing
club), Orchard Meadow, Pegasus
and Windale Primary Schools in
the Blackbird and Greater Leys
estates, county age-group sport in
cricket, netball, tennis and rugby, the
Summertown Stars football team
and the Wasps Academy.
OSE Carlos Posada, Jamie Jay and Felix
Higginbottom, along with Jacob Lively, make up
the alt-rock band Low Island who are currently
making a name for themselves. The four-piece
is receiving airplay on Radios 1 and 6, and will
take the main stage at a number of the summer’s
big festivals – Brighton, Oxford and London, to
name just a few. Given their schedule, we were
honoured that they agreed to return to Teddies
to be our headline act of the summer weekends’
schedule. Carlos Posada said afterwards, ‘We
felt privileged to have been asked back, and were
very grateful for the opportunity to play in front
of the pupils and staff, and particularly to play
in The North Wall, a beautiful space that is full
of happy memories for us. My own personal
experience at Teddies was pretty much entirely
defined by time spent between The North Wall
and the Music School, so it was incredibly special
to be part of an occasion that fused the two.’
Low Island: definitely ones to watch.
James Colson Lake (New College)
Community Sport