Riverside Highlights Issue 5 2014-15, Half Term Highlights, Term 3a

HALF TERM

HIGHLIGHTS
TERM 3a

ISSUE 5

2014/2015

T O P P E R F O R M E R S E A R N S P E E C H D AY H O N O U R S
On Friday 1st May, Shrewsbury International School celebrated the
achievements of pupils from Years
3-13 in our annual Speech Day and
Prize Giving Ceremonies.
Prize-winners and their families,
along with other specially invited
guests, staff and students gathered in the school’s Memorial Hall
to celebrate the achievements of
Shrewsbury students across the
range of academic, music, sport,
performance and community activities.
Nearly 80 students from our Prep
School, and 130 students from the
Senior school, were handed their
prizes by this year’s guest of honour, the Reverend Gary Dobbie,

awards reflect their special
achievements throughout their
In the aftermath of the recent
time at Shrewsbury and their conearthquakes in Nepal, Rev. Dobtributions as role models in every
bie’s address carried particular
resonance, focusing on the themes aspect of school life.
of re-building, and the small acts
With their A-level examinations
of kindness which hold the world
now upon them, they join the rest
together.
of Shrewsbury’s Class of 2015 in
Shrewsbury’s charity committee is looking to emulate the impressive
achievements of last year’s graducurrently developing an action
plan for providing targeted aid to ates, who are now studying at 50
leading universities in 10 different
affected communities, likely to
countries around the world. And
mirror the school-rebuilding projects that Shrewsbury is support- with nearly 300 university offers
to choose from, the stage is set to
ing in typhoon-hit Philippines.
for another very exciting year for
Shrewsbury’s Class of 2015.
Receiving honours in their last
ever Speech Day at Shrewsbury
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were fourteen of the School’s
most Senior students, whose
Chaplain of our UK sister school.

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