Shrewsbury School

After an intensive five-week training programme, nine Royal Marine cadets were selected to take part in the prestigious Sir Steuart Pringle Trophy, held last weekend at the Royal Marines Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon. Among them...

On Friday 29th September, the Army section of the Shrewsbury School Combined Cadet Force set out to put into practice the many hours of extra training they have done over the past month for the annual Military Skills Competition.

On a hot sunny afternoon this week, pupils walking between lessons were confronted by a swarm of bees on Central...

United Nations flags fluttered proudly above the Main School Building last weekend, to welcome more than 100 delegates representing countries from all over the world to the inaugural Shrewsbury School Model United Nations Conference.

It has been a hectic week for the Shrewsbury Debaters, not only within the School but on a national platform too.

"For us 'MUN-ers', the Paris Model United Nations Conference (PAMUN) is the culmination of all the Wednesday evening MUN sessions that we go to. With delegations from across the world stretching from Dubai to California and even a delegation from...

The MUN Conference season got off to a good start last weekend, with Shrewsbury School delegates performing well at Cheadle Hulme.

Congratulations to the Shrewsbury School CCF Royal Marine Detachment, who gave a tremendous performance last weekend in defence of the prestigious Pringle Trophy that they won last year.

Seventeen teams entered this year's House Quiz; just four made it through to the final, which took place in the Ashton Theatre on 6th May. Quizzing at Shrewsbury follows a format similar to that of  BBC TV's 'University Challenge' and is...

Amongst Shrewsbury’s more arcane societies, the Reeling Society, founded by Rory Fraser (Ch), Head of School 2013-2014, must rank high.

On the first weekend of half term, a group of 17 debaters, representing Nigeria, Croatia, Syria and Afghanistan headed off to the Paris MUN with Mr Peach and Miss Burge. At the same time a crack team of seven representing Ukraine, Malaysia and...

Thursday afternoons at Shrewsbury are devoted to a vast programme of extra-curricular activities. On Field Days lessons are suspended and pupils and staff have the chance to spend a whole day on their activity. This brief account of what they...