N E W S L E T T E R - Radley College

NEW sOCIALS
The new school year saw the opening of two new socials,
the first for 80 years at Radley. They are highly individual
buildings, each designed for 65 boys, with large public
spaces, well appointed study/bedrooms, and interesting
modern interpretations of Radley’s traditional Shell
accommodation, social hall and cubicle. Particular
features are the unusual windows, the modern shapes of
wall, stairwell metal work and the Arts and Crafts tile
hanging and gabling which set the two buildings apart
from most other boarding houses built elsewhere.
The rolls of J and K Social were created across the last
academic year by boys volunteering from the original
socials and indicating a wish to be this pioneer corps.
They have been joined by a new entry of Shell arriving at
Radley and going straight into J and K. The reaction of
boys to their new surroundings has been overwhelmingly
positive, despite the fact that the builders and fitters
worked right up to the last afternoon of the summer
holidays to get K Social finished. The challenge now for
Mark Hindley (Tutor of J Social), Niall Murphy (Tutor
of K Social) the respective Heads of Social (Sam Gundle,
Dragon and Guy Chalk, Cothill) and the house prefects is
to forge distinctive house identities across this academic
year.
THE RADLEIAN NEWSLETTER 3