The Chronicle, Summer Term 2017

5 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

James Colson Lake (New College)

Low Island

OSE Carlos Posada, Jamie Jay and Felix Higginbottom, along with Jacob Lively, make up the alt-rock band Low Island who are currently making a name for themselves. The four-piece is receiving airplay on Radios 1 and 6, and will take the main stage at a number of the summer’s big festivals – Brighton, Oxford and London, to

name just a few. Given their schedule, we were honoured that they agreed to return to Teddies to be our headline act of the summer weekends’ schedule. Carlos Posada said afterwards, ‘We felt privileged to have been asked back, and were very grateful for the opportunity to play in front of the pupils and staff, and particularly to play

in The North Wall, a beautiful space that is full of happy memories for us. My own personal experience at Teddies was pretty much entirely defined by time spent between The North Wall and the Music School, so it was incredibly special to be part of an occasion that fused the two.’ Low Island: definitely ones to watch.

Community Sport

Sponsorship of Oxford Rugby Football Club is the latest in a string of partnerships with local sports teams. Bursar Stephen Withers Green says, ‘We are a School at the heart of a community and it’s incredibly important to us that we have meaningful links with the clubs, organisations and people at the heart of that community.’ In addition to sponsoring ORFC (Teddies were the first opponents in the Club’s first ever fixture back in 1910 – we’re pleased to report that we won …), Teddies also supports, in a variety of ways, Wolvercote CC, Cherwell School, Hinksey Sculling School (a community rowing club), Orchard Meadow, Pegasus and Windale Primary Schools in the Blackbird and Greater Leys estates, county age-group sport in cricket, netball, tennis and rugby, the Summertown Stars football team and the Wasps Academy.