Chronicle Summer 2023

7 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

THE ANNIVERSARY INTERVIEW The Warden with Callum Togher, Molly Butler Adams and Oscar Evans-Pollard

In this momentous year, Head of Communications Tracy van der Heiden talks to the Warden about the School’s past, how it shapes the present - and what the future holds.

2023 is the School’s 160th anniversary. In what way does the Teddies of today continue to champion the School’s founding principles? Every great institution draws on its past to shape its future, and that is what we are trying to do at Teddies. The School was founded to benefit the public, and that remains our focus 160 years on. From our work on widening access to the partnership programme, which started with Teddies Collaborates in the Lower Sixth and which is going to become universal over the next few years, we are staying true to Chamberlain’s purpose. The school motto,

pietas parentum or the devotion of parents, is as valid now as it was then: parents are committing to their children’s futures by sending them to Teddies, and we are as committed as their parents to looking after them while they’re here. How is the School marking the anniversary? There are, in fact, three anniversaries this year! For the anniversary of the foundation, we’ve launched Project 160, our plan to have 160 pupils on means-tested bursaries in the next ten years (see the profiles of past bursary recipients on pages 11, 13