The Salopian - Winter 2021

SCHOOL NEWS 11
wider community and environment. We occupy a position of
tremendous privilege and our students have the opportunity
to change the world – not in a self-serving, CV-boosting
kind of way, but because it is the right thing to do. As my
granny used to say, God has no hands on earth but ours,
and we’d better use them. Stuart Cowper, Naomi Pritchard
and many others have done amazing work developing
relationships with local schools and charities, and we
have all seen the difference that purposeful volunteering
can make. Last Christmas, I was down at the Food Bank
with a group of the Radbrook boys, and that first-hand,
personal interaction with the poverty on their doorstep
was genuinely transformational for them. We would like
to see every student engaging with the School’s social and
environmental mission. Reading the news over the last few
months has been a pretty depressing experience, from the
Afghan crisis to the UN’s publication on climate change. As
teachers, we have the opportunity to shape the generation
that will meet those challenges – and I think we can start
that on a Thursday afternoon. Floreat Salopia!