Impact Report 2022

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ST EDWARD’S, OXFORD

A REFLECTION St Edward’s seeks to benefit the public by

promoting and providing for the advancement of the education of children in a liberal and open community”. That is the formal statement of our purpose, which we are seeking to achieve by

promoting scholarship, by delivering excellence, and by inspiring and celebrating commitment to service, within and outside the school community. That last element finds its fullest and most eloquent expression in Beyond Teddies. This report shows the impact of our work this year in pictures and in numbers, in print and in colour, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading it. At the same time, no publication can capture the fun of all these programmes and activities, or the effect that they have on the children and staff involved. Conversations with pupils about their work beyond Teddies, meetings with the children and adults with whom they are working in partnership, and visits to see these many activities have been among the highlights of my first year as Warden. The greatest public benefit of a school like Teddies is not in charitable giving or in the sharing of facilities. That work is important, but it is in the sharing of experience and the building of relationships that children and young people are shaped into adults who want to play the fullest possible part in society, who want to serve their communities, and who live out our values of integrity, courage and kindness, within and beyond Teddies. ALASTAIR CHIRNSIDE WARDEN

St Edward’s School Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7NN www.stedwardsoxford.org