xxxx Salopian Week 2018_Layout 1 10/05/2018 17:17 Page 1 SALOPIAN WEEK 2018 Monday 25th – Saturday 30th June xxxx Salopian Week 2018_Layout 1 10/05/2018 17:17 Page 2 xxxx Salopian Week 2018_Layout 1 10/05/2018 17:17 Page 3 HEADMASTER’S WELCOME Speech Day Concert, with its informal, Proms-like feel is the look like. I hope that you will all get behind this project to ideal opportunity to bring a picnic and celebrate in a convivial, see a significantly enhanced facility for our thespians and if not a carnival atmosphere. We will be hoping for a classic audiences, which is due to be opened in the autumn of 2020. Top Common sunset, but whatever the weather, a warm There is much more to celebrate. This September will see welcome awaits you. the opening of two new international schools. One is a new This year, as well as recognising many individual achievements, school in Bangkok and the other is Shrewsbury International we will also be celebrating ten years of co-education at in Hong Kong, which has been built on a splendid, purpose- Shrewsbury. I have been thrilled, over the course of my eight designed site in the Tseung Kwan O (Siu Chik Sha) district. years as Headmaster, to see co-education, planted by my Both these schools look set to open with healthy numbers predecessor, Jeremy Goulding, take root and grow. It is and to experience rapid expansion and development wonderful to report that now, with the development of from here. Moser’s as a girls’ house, we have four girls’ houses and over As well as looking to the future, over the course of the last 30% girls in the School; a target we have achieved two years three and a half years, we have been looking back a hundred ahead of schedule. To celebrate the first decade of years to remember those Salopians who fell during the First co-education and mark the tenth anniversary of the arrival World War. I hope very much that you will have followed our of girls at Shrewsbury, we have invited as a Guest of Honour series of articles, communicated through the e-Newsletter, Elle Gurden, who was in the first cohort of Sixth Form girls to where we have identified the individuals who have fallen in I very much look forward to welcoming you to join Mary Sidney Hall in 2008, and I very much look forward specific weeks. As we move through to the commemoration to hearing what she has to say to us about her early Shrewsbury School Speech Day, which always of the Centenary of the Armistice, we hope to dedicate a Roll experiences in the School as encouragement on our represents a wonderful climax to the school of Honour, paid for by the Salopian Club, to sit at the back of co-educational journey. year. Over the last few years we have Chapel as a reminder to the current generation of boys and reformed the model of Speech Day to provide Also this year we will be celebrating the centenary girls, of the sacrifice made by those who have gone before. refurbishment of the Moser Library. I hope that you will take what we hope will be a marvellous opportunity For both my wife Elizabeth and myself, this Speech Day will be the opportunity to look round the Library, to see some of to celebrate the numerous individual and particularly poignant. We have thoroughly enjoyed being part our treasures – the Moser Watercolour Collection and the of Shrewsbury’s dynamic evolution over the course of the last collective achievements of our boys and girls. (Ancient) Taylor Library. We are most fortunate as a school eight years. There is most definitely something that is to have one of the finest collections of incunabula (printed We realise that many of you come from across the country uniquely Salopian – a blend of traditions, a spirit of place and a texts) from the 15th Century, which allows us to trace our and, indeed, from around the world to join with us on Speech mix of diverse personalities. We will take with us vivid teaching and learning origins right back to the very beginning Day. We are keen to generate large audiences at the Eve of memories and send on best wishes to the twenty-eighth of the evolution of the printed word. Speech Day Concert, which this year, with the cancellation of Headmaster of Shrewsbury School as he assumes his duties a number of the other major concerts as a result of ‘the beast Talking of ‘teaching’, the pulse of any school, this year we will next term. from the East’, will take on added significance; the Junior be saying goodbye to a number of distinguished colleagues, Floreat Salopia! School Play; the exhibition of pupils’ work and the events of with over 250 years of accumulated Shrewsbury service Speech Day itself, which may well include a dramatic finale to between them. Speech Day itself will provide an opportunity the final day of Bumping Races. to thank them for their collective contribution. This year, as always, we will be saying goodbye to some The next stage of the 2020 development campaign – the fantastic musicians, who have contributed indefatigably to the re-development of the Ashton Theatre – will be launched in Mark Turner musical life of the school during their time here. The Eve of the coming months with an exhibition of what the project will SALOPIAN WEEK 2018 | 1 xxxx Salopian Week 2018_Layout 1 10/05/2018 17:17 Page 4 Vehicle access is via Porthill SPEECH DAY PORT HILL Gates only on Speech Day Porthill Gates KEYNOTE SPEAKER Main Entrance Severn Hill Cricket School PORTHILL ROAD Porthill A488 Radbrook Ridgemount Tennis Courts PORTHILL ROAD All weather playing area Eleanor (Elle) Gurden was part of the Route to pioneering first cohort of Sixth Form girls Car Park Hodgson River Severn who joined Shrewsbury School in 2008. An Hall Oldham’s Mary Sidney Hall Hall energetic all-rounder, she threw herself into Stott Chatri Building all aspects of school life from the outset, Pavilion The Moser Library taking part in several House plays and musical and the Ancient Library Lower Common Craig 14 events and helping Mary Sidney Hall establish Building 8 Art School itself as a force to be reckoned with in the Fives courts House Singing Competition. The 7 9 Grove Main School ROMAN ROAD Building During her two years at Shrewsbury, her impact 6 10 2 on the establishment of girls’ sport was profound. The Boat House She played hockey, netball, tennis, athletics and Quod Chapel Kingsland 1 rounders at first team level, and was the first ever 3 Hall Darwin 11 Building Head of Girls’ Sport and Captain of Boats. Her Marquee 11 All weather infectious enthusiasm combined with her sporting Hockey pitch Central 11 ability inspired fellow pupils and staff alike. CANONBURY ROMAN ROAD 12 School Top Common 13 House Kingsland 11 Alington Since leaving school in 2010, she has continued to House Hall support Shrewsbury Sport and has been Chair of 11 Pavillion/School Shop the Old Salopian Women’s Sports Club for several 11 11 Ashton Theatre Maidment Building years. In 2013, her family generously donated a B4380 (Music) 11 Gym trophy named in her honour, to be awarded each 4 Swimming Pool 15 5 Rigg’s Hall year for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Female Churchill’s BUTLER ROAD Ingram’s Hall Hall Sport’. Elle will be presenting the trophy to this Emma Darwin year’s winner during the Speech Day Prize-giving Hall ASHTON ROAD Ceremony. Tennis GREVILLE ROAD KENNEDY ROAD Courts ASHTON ROAD After leaving Shrewsbury, Elle went on to study Squash Courts B4380 Foundation Office Chemistry at Manchester University. She has spent Moser’s Hall the last three years working in London in sales and to A49, A458 and M54 marketing with Heineken UK and currently with Mondrian Investment Partners Ltd. 2 | SALOPIAN WEEK 2018 xxxx Salopian Week 2018_Layout 1 10/05/2018 17:17 Page 5 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2018 MONDAY 25th JUNE FRIDAY 29th JUNE continued 2.00 p.m. Cricket: Boys’ 2nd XI v Midlands Cricket Academy (Home) 6.30 p. m Junior School Play ‘Richard III’ (Ashton Theatre) 5 7.30 p.m. Leavers’ Concert (Maidment Building) 4 6.30 p.m. BBQ and picnics (until 10.15 p.m.) (Top Common) 1 6.30 p.m. Shrewsbury School Parents’ Association Pay Bar (until 10.00 p.m.) (Marquee) 1 TUESDAY 26th JUNE 8.30 p.m. Eve of Speech Day Classical Gala Concert (Marquee) 1 4.00 p.m. Cricket: Boys’ U14C XI v Oswestry School T20 (Home) 6.00 p.m. Cricket: Girls’ U17 XI v Shropshire Cricket Board (Away) SATURDAY 30th JUNE – SPEECH DAY AND PRIZE-GIVING 9.00 a.m. Tea, Coffee and Biscuits (available all day) (Quod) 6 WEDNESDAY 27th JUNE 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. Exhibitions in Quod, Chatri Building, Art School, Library, Darwin Building 11.00 a.m. Cricket: Boys’ U16A XI at Christ College Brecon T20 Festival (Away) 6 7 8 9 10 11.30 a.m. Cricket: Boys’ 1st XI v Uppingham (Day 1) (Away) 10.00 a.m. Leavers’ Service – open to all parents, leavers and staff (Chapel) 2 2.00 p.m. Inter-House Athletics (London Road) 11.15 a.m. Headmaster’s Report to Parents and School Prize-Giving (Marquee) 1 5 6.30 p.m. Junior School Play ‘Richard III’ (Ashton Theatre) 12.30 p.m. Drinks in Houses or House Tepees 11 1.00 p.m.