Rhubarb Issue 12: November 2023

Partnerships

I t has been a busy year for Partnerships, with the launch of Teddies Collaborates, which sees the entire Lower Sixth Form volunteering weekly in the local community. In addition to this, we held 23 large scale Partnership events in the 2022-2023 academic year, including Zimbe! by Alexander l’Estrange, our biggest music partnership event to date, with over 200 Year 5 and 6 children participating. Alongside these, we also fundraised for Oxfordshire Youth, the School Charity, facilitated The Big Donate in partnership with local charities, shared facilities with local organisations, supported local sporting events, and hosted the Youth in Mind Conference .

1. St Edward’s annual Primary School’s cross- country tournament, 150 year 5 and 6 pupils from 9 local primary schools in attendance. March 2023 for me throughout the service programme and it definitely had the biggest impact on me Jarvis, Lower Sixth pupil volunteering at St Aloysius’ Primary School ‘Inspiring People’ series. February 2023 4. Graham Quelch running a workshop of interactive science demonstrations for Cutteslowe Primary School, part of National Science Week 5. A Chemistry demonstration by Dr Matthew Fletcher for the Science of Christmas lectures, December 2022 6. Hockey tournament in partnership with Oxford Hawks Project 2000. December 2022 7. Ibrick sessions delivered to Northern House Academy in partnership with House of Fun, developing STEM skills. Spring term 2023 640 primary school pupils took part in educational workshops at Teddies The ability to communicate with younger people in other communities was really important 2. Lower Sixth Sports Leaders at Cutteslowe Football Masterclass. March 2023 3. John Simpson speaking at the North Wall. Part of their

BEYOND TEDDIES

Over 500 local primary school children have been involved in large scale sporting partnership events

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38members of staff have worked directly with Partnerships and Teddies Collaborates

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