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St Edward’s:
150 Years
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Jubilee (N)
The first Jubilee girls started school in September 2012 under the
superb guidance of Assistant Housemistress Miss Boast. Living
in Cooper Lodge, the five boarders and two day girls have kept
a close eye on the building work, donning high-visibility jackets
and hard hats at every opportunity to inspect the progress. We
have had full years for boarders in the Shell, Fourths and Lower
Sixth from September 2013, so the House is noisy and fun.
I joined the staff full time in January. Armela Lasku, a Jubilee
girl who was one of the two winners of the 150th Anniversary
Bursary, helped lay the date stone during the Topping Out
ceremony. We hope Jubilee will continue the success of the other
girls’ Houses while bringing its own character to the School.
The gorgeous Cotswold stone building is already a landmark
on the Field side and we know the girls are very proud of
their new House. We hope the Jubilee girls will follow in the
footsteps of our first seven girls, with a sound work ethic and
the desire to be involved in as much of School life as possible.
Pupils at St Edward’s are privileged to have many academic,
sporting and social opportunities, and the first Jubilee girls have
been involved in as many of these as their time has allowed.
Phaedra (Fred) Gowen
Housemistress, Jubilee (N)
Far right: Housemistress Phaedra Gowen
inspects plans for the House with her girls.
Right: The time capsule for the History
Department, one of the two buried under
the steps of the new House at Gaudy 2013.
Opposite: The stone before
the Topping Out ceremony.
Back row (left to right): Mick
Hewer, Feltham Construction,
Site Manager; Nick Hardy, TSH
Architects, Principal Project
Architect;andStephenWithers
Green, Bursar; Front: Matthew
Thornton; Warden Jones;
Richard Hayes, Estates Bursar;
Armela Lasku.
Below: Interior of the brand-new Jubilee House, 2013.
Below left: The Topping Out ceremony explained by Warden Jones: (left to
right) Richard Hayes, Matthew Thornton, Armela Lasku, Paul Thornton and
Warden Jones.