The Salopian no. 157 - Winter 2015

18 SCHOOL NEWS
House Singing
This year’s House Singing
Competition took place
in front of the customary
packed House on Friday,
16th October. Hopes and
expectations were as high
as ever, and the main prizes
were awarded as follows:
Overall:
Emma Darwin Hall
Unison Song:
Emma Darwin Hall
Part Song:
School House
Entertainment:
Mary Sidney Hall
Most Improved House:
Ridgemount
Most Outstanding Soloist:
James Fearn (Ingram’s Hall)
Best Arrangement:
Alex Bennett and Angus Hay
(Radbrook)
Shrewsbury and the Shewsy in Malawi, July 2016
Since 2010, Shrewsbury School
has been supporting the work of
Medic Malawi, a charity based in
Shrewsbury which supports a hospital
in Mtunthama, serving 100,000
people in rural Malawi, a clinic and
nutrition centre, two schools and an
orphanage.
In July 2012 and again in 2014, a
group from Shrewsbury travelled to
Mtunthama to spend time working
alongside staff in the projects, helping
with the daily routine tasks and
making friends with many of the
children who live there.
When they visited in 2012, the
Shrewsbury students asked what
was needed next, and when told ‘an
eye clinic’, they stood in the space
where the walls would be. Two years
later, the money for that clinic had
been raised at the School, through
an African Ball, non-uniform days,
cookie sales and sponsored events.
When the next group arrived in
2014, they were proud to see that the
Shrewsbury School Eye Clinic had
been built. Trachoma and cataracts
are now treated here, two of the
preventable eye problems which are
all too prevalent in Malawi. Patients
arrive at the clinic unable to see and
leave with their sight restored.
The next trip to Malawi takes place
in July 2016 and will be a joint
venture between the School and
Shrewsbury House in Liverpool.
Sixteen Salopians will be joined by
five young people and two members
of staff from the Shewsy.
The Shewsy have been busy
fundraising for the trip, doing regular
bag-packing at local supermarkets
and running a tuck shop in the
Youth Centre. There are also plans to
sell sweets around the doors in the
local community and to organise a
‘sleep in a box challenge’ during the
winter, when the girls will sleep out
overnight with cardboard boxes and
sleeping bags, gaining an insight into
what it would be like to be homeless,
raising awareness of homelessness
and raising funds for the Malawi trip
at the same time.