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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
The Arts and Beyond:
Another side of GaudyWeek
By Alex Tester, Director of Music
This year, Gaudy wasn’t just about cultural events,
the arts, and sport. When not performing or
rehearsing, the Lower Sixth and Shells took part
in a series of departmental lectures, seminars and
workshops designed to allow a fresh and engaging
look at a range of academic disciplines.
Engineering was the focus for the Physics and
Design Departments. The Lower Sixth designed
and built their own rocket cars, fired across the
Quad at blistering speed during the Gaudy Week
demonstration to challenge the 1,000 mph target
of the British Bloodhound Supersonic Car team.
A member of the Bloodhound team launched the
project by giving pupils an update on progress of
this cutting edge, all-British engineering project,
and also presented prizes to the winning teams.
A pupil film-making project ran alongside the
rocket car challenge to provide a different
perspective on aspects of engineering.
In the History Department, a visiting lecturer
focused on the Battle of Waterloo on its 200th
anniversary. The related discussion involved pupils
exploring different accounts and considering the
issues of the time. Similarly, a two-day Religious
Studies conference focused on the place of religion
in 21st-century society with a series of debates and
research presentations, and another conference
considered the problems in the philosophy of art
for artists and non-artists alike. In an Apprentice-
style marketing challenge, pupils enjoyed the
opportunity to create a marketing campaign for
a male moisturiser. With the rousing tagline of
‘defend your skin’ the winning campaign named
their product Army & Co, and demonstrated clear
thinking around their marketing strategy.
One Lower Sixth group took the opportunity
to be away from the classroom and enjoyed
walking along the Ridgeway, taking in the beautiful
sights of the Oxfordshire countryside; another
group looked into the history of art, visiting the
Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Union
in a quest to analyse some remarkable Pre-
Raphaelite paintings.
In all, it was a week of new activities and fresh
perspectives – a great way to end the term.
Academic Promotions Summer 2015
Promoted to Honorary
Academic Scholarship
Lotty Hope
(Dragon)
Reha Soni
(Danes Hill)
Valery Orlova
(Wychwood)
Promoted from
Academic Exhibition
to Honorary Academic
Scholarship
Alex Miller
(Winchester House)
Millie Tozer
(Banda, Nairobi)
Promoted to Honorary
Academic Exhibition
Benjy Bailey
(Cheam)
Rebeca Barden
(Windlesham House)
Ilana Cope
(Cherwell)
Daniel Gill
(New College)
Kyla Haslett-Hawkins
(Dragon)
Alice Isola
(Sotogrande
International, Spain)
Sanders Lau
(Kingston
International, Hong Kong)
Anish Mehta
(Caldicott)
William Wallis
(St Neot’s)
Sassy Hammersley
(Dragon)
Armela Lasku
(Matthew Arnold)
Danielle Lim
(Windlesham House)
Promoted from Music
Exhibition to Honorary
Music Scholarship
Eva Cottingham-Mayall
(Cheam)
Promoted to Honorary
Music Exhibition
James Buxton
(Wetherby Prep)
Promoted to Honorary
Sports Scholarship
Fergus Flory
(Pilgrims’)
Henry Emmott
(St Hugh’s)
Promoted from Sports
Exhibition to Honorary
Sports Scholarship
Brume Otubu
(British
International, Lagos)
Promoted to Honorary
Sports Exhibition
Will Monks
(Moulsford Prep)
Tom Powell
(St Andrew’s, Pangbourne)
Promoted from Dance
Exhibition to Honorary
Dance Scholarship
Lottie Burr
(St Neot’s)
Promoted to Honorary
Dance Exhibition
Poppy Kettlewell
(Dragon)
Saskia Chancellor
(Queen’s Gate)
Promoted to Honorary
Art Exhibition
Felix Ross
(New College)
Louis Leger
(École
Internationale Bilingue)
Vera Gorlacheva
(School 1264, Moscow)
Promoted from Drama
Exhibition to Honorary
Drama Scholarship
Emily Smart
(Broomwood Hall)
Eva Cottingham-Mayall
(Cheam)
Casper Sunley
(Cheam)
James Buxton
(Wetherby Prep)
Lu Wright
(Broomwood Hall)
Promoted to Honorary
Drama Exhibition
Louis Verschoyle
(Lambrook)
Selena Thompson
(Sylvia Young)
Tanaka Chitsenga
(Dragon)