Impact Report 2022-2023

12 ST EDWARD’S, OXFORD

Academic Initiatives

This year we have opened up the super-curriculum evening talks and lectures to pupils from local secondary schools. Popular talks were the van Tulleken Brothers (Operation Ouch) on Global Health and Health Inequality, and Politics with Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom. We have welcomed students from our neighbouring schools including Cherwell, Cheney and The Swan School as well as from further afield. As part of the Inspiring People talks with The North Wall, we welcomed BBC Foreign Correspondent and World Affairs Editor, John Simpson. He did a ‘pre event’ with 24 pupils (12 pupils from Teddies and 12 pupils from Cherwell School) and in small groups pupils were given global politics topics to discuss. Afterwards the pupils joined the larger audience of members of the public and pupils from other schools in The North Wall where John Simpson told the audience about his fascinating career. For the second year running the pupils in Pathways and Perspectives have had the opportunity to participate in drama workshops with five local primary schools. The St Edward’s pupils lead the workshops, using their creativity and acting abilities to bring the lessons to life. The primary school children were actively engaged throughout the workshops which focused on themes ranging from internet safety to the Ancient Greeks and acceptance and kindness to others.

Latin Teaching Scheme (LTS) Teddies has been involved in teaching of Latin (and/or Classical Greek and Ancient History) in local schools for 15 years now. This year we have had two skilled and enthusiastic Sixth Form Classicists, George Bradshaw and Elliot Sarooshi, teaching Latin at Wolvercote Primary School, as part of ‘Kids Do Classics’. This enterprise will continue in September when we shall also be welcoming into the School pupils from The Swan School and, online, A-level Ancient Historians, wanting to read sources in the original language, from Blackpool Sixth Form College. Success for All Educational Trust: Academic Enrichment Day Teddies hosted our first Academic Enrichment Day and were delighted to welcome 30 Year 10 pupils from Redden Court School, The Royal Liberty School and Sanders Draper School that are all part of the Success for All Educational Trust in Essex. The day included a morning in Oxford starting in the Randolph Hotel with a talk from Tommy Turner OSE 2 and current student at Oriel College, followed by a tour of the Weston Library and Wadham College. Lunch was at Teddies followed by science experiments in the labs in the afternoon.

2. OSE: Old St Edwardian