This week, Lacrosse.
Open Mic nights have become a regular feature of the Salopian musical scene, ably and energetically organised by Rob Shone (Ch UVI).
Ruchika Scott (G UVI), Susie Watts (MSH UVI) and Pascale Goddard (G UVI) became the first female Shrewsbury School CCF cadets to participate in the Colour Party on Remembrance Sunday.
The Salopian Club Wales and West of England Dinner On Friday 6th November, at the Cardiff and County Club, the current President of the Salopian Club, Sir Eldryd Parry,...
“That has to be one of the best days of my life,” says Henry as we sit around a campfire under an African starlit sky. That morning we had been up at first light for a 10km run in a remote corner of Kenya, a herd of zebra and antelopes...
A new production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play - 'Dinner with Friends'- is currently running at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. It is produced by OS Theatre Producer Tim Johanson (O 00-05) and directed by Tom Attenborough. The play...
This week we remember:Second Lieutenant Charles Ledward Smith, Royal Field Artillery.Hall’s (now Rigg’s), Football XI, left in 1898.Died of illness in the United Kingdom 15th November 1915, aged 35.It is not known where he is buried, neither does...
Eight U15 girls travelled to Eton on Sunday to compete in the Richard Black Cup – a Ladies Fives team competition. This is the first year the School has taken part in this competition and Shrewsbury was one of only two schools represented; the girls...
This week saw 14 pupils from all years gather in Shrewsbury’s newest building - the ultra modern Hodgson Hall - to perform selections of ancient literature for the Classical Reading Competition.
Congratulations to Henry Thomas (Ch UVI), who has reached the second round of the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition.
All four Shrewsbury crews aquitted themselves well last Saturday in challenging conditions over a four and a quarter-mile stretch on the River Thames.
Last Friday evening the Bastille Society was treated to another engaging instalment in this term’s lecture series.
Over the October half-term, 13 members of The Hunt travelled to East Africa for a once in a lifetime opportunity to train amongst Kenyans and Ethiopians amidst quite stunning scenery. The experience was a memorable one and despite the...
There's still much to be said for the good old-fashioned handwritten note, says Toby Percival, Head of Middle School, in an article published in Independent Education Today.
Christmas cards in aid of Medic Malawi and the Shrewsbury School Eye Clinic are now on sale. And the School's charitable enterprise Salopian Ventures, which is fast approaching its 30th anniversary and has raised more than £130,000 for many...
In May 2013, when we proudly reported the news that Adam Booth had reached the top of Mount Everest, he responded by thanking the members of staff who led the Rovers, the School’s mountaineering and adventuring club, for ‘lighting the flame’. On...
The student-run Popular Music Society runs regular Open Mic Nights in the Maidment Building. The next one is on Sunday 8th November. Shrewsbury School TV captured some of the fantastic music and atmosphere at the last one in October.
The Shrewsbury School Parents Association (SSPA) held another successful drinks event at the House Singing Competition. The evening was a great opportunity for parents to meet and mingle throughout the evening, as our children supplied some...
The annual Tucks race once again proved a high-octane affair with the top athletes in the School competing for the laurels.
An entertaining insight from 'Great Expectations' cast member Fintan Simmons (Ch LVI), as they prepare to stage "the most complicated musical that Shrewsbury has ever put on".
Over half term, the Boat Club took two eights to compete at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, USA, the largest two-day rowing event in the world.
During recent years, we have built up a strong exchange partnership with San Bartolomé School in Rosario, Argentina. During half term, 15 pupils spent a week there enjoying warm hospitality from their host families and exchange partners, and a...
The JourneyAt the beginning of half term, 15 boys accompanied by Mr Wright and The Grove’s Matron Maureen Donoghue embarked on a tedious 18 hours of travelling, via Madrid, to Argentina. After a long but uneventful journey we arrived in Buenos Aires...
Huge congratulations to Jack Ashworth (S LVI), Lily Freeman-Attwood (EDH III), Scott Walker (M V) and Thomas Tulloch (Rt LVI) for their fantastic performances at the National Schools’ Equestrian Championships at Addington during half term, where...
As part of their preparations for the forthcoming tour to East Africa, The Hunt have been raising funds to support the work of the Restart Centre in Kenya, home to orphans and street children and a quite extraordinary place. They will be out with...
Dr Richard Case has put together an absolutely stunning photobook of the recent Biology Department Expedition to Guyana. Worthy of a National Geographic award for the quality and detail of the images of the extraordinary array of wildlife and...
This week, the 1st XI girls' hockey team.
The results.