The Fifth Form Options Fair is held on a Saturday morning each January - generally the last Saturday in the month - and is an opportunity for all pupils due to start in the Sixth Form the following September to learn a bit more about their chosen Sixth Form subjects.  All Fifth Formers and all new entrants into the Sixth Form are invited to attend, with their parents.

The morning starts with an address by the Headmaster in Quod (the Sixth Form Common Room).  There is then the opportunity to attend 4 subject sessions, each lasting approximately 20 minutes.  In each of these, the Head of Faculty gives a short presentation; there is then the chance to ask questions and to meet current Sixth Formers studying that subject.  The Options Fair finishes with lunch at 1pm.

For further information, please contact Kate Bronner on 01743 280527 or email kbronner@shrewsbury.org.uk.

"Superpower Geopolitics: the Cold War…and beyond!”

This lecture is part of the Shropshire Branch of the Geographical Association 6th Form Lecture Series and is a joint lecture with the Royal Geographical Society. It takes place in the Alington Hall. 

For much of the twentieth century, global politics — and global culture — was dominated by the Cold War and the geopolitical stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union.

We are now living through an era where those old certainties are being dramatically overturned. Almost every day, our newspapers are filled with stories that suggest that the traditional “old powers” of the United States and Europe are coming under increasing global pressures from a host of rising powers, most particularly India and China.

This talk explores these geopolitical shifts, and considers how the term “superpower” can reveal important realities, and expose long-standing myths, about international politics. The talk will conclude by considering, what we might call, our ‘geopolitical futures’ and the growing risks and threats associated with ‘new resource frontiers’ in, for example, the polar regions.

Alasdair Pinkerton is a Lecturer in Geography and Geopolitics at Royal Holloway College. His research focuses on the geopolitics of public diplomacy and international communications. He has a particular interest in the BBC World Service and the geopolitics of cold war communications within and beyond the United States. His first book, which examines the geopolitics of radio, will be published next year by Reaktion books.

Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and an Admissions Tutor at the University of Sheffield.  He is part of the S3 - Sheffield Synthesis Solution team.  The team conducts world class research in organic synthesis including the development of novel catalysts for organic reaction mechanisms, and provides courses and consultancy from the basics of organic chemistry to the cutting edge of synthetic chemistry.

This Darwin Society lecture takes place in the Science Lecture Theatre, and is sponsored by RSC/WMCTC.

The Old Salopian Football Club are through to the quarter finals of the Arthur Dunn Cup, having won recently against Radley (4-1) and Malvern (4-0), and we are delighted that they are playing this match at The Schools.

Do please come along and support them.