The latest in the fortnightly Bulletins from the Futures Department, full of useful information, reminders, resources and weblinks for Fifth and Sixth Formers and their parents.

Winners of this year’s Bentley Elocution Prize, one of the oldest school competitions, now in its 153rd year, have been crowned.

Eight Salopian biologists entered the Royal Society of Biology Olympiad 2020 and between them amassed four gold medals, two bronze, plus two highly commended awards.

The Arnold Hagger Prize is named after one of the great Mathematics masters at Shrewsbury School in the 1950s who, along with Basil Saint and Frank Hadland, established Mathematics as a serious academic subject here.

On Thursday 13th February, we welcomed an enthusiastic and talented group of young creative writers from schools all over the UK, who had been selected as finalists in our annual Essay Competition, for a fun and inspi...

At the invitation of Sixth Former Sophia Bureau, Lord Hague kindly visited Shrewsbury School on Friday 7th February to deliver a talk to pupils from Shrewsbury and other local schools as part of our Academic Extension...

What do Donald Trump, Spike Milligan and Ludwig Wittgenstein have in common?

As part of their introduction to their Organic Chemistry course, Miss Woo’s Fourth Form set were given the task of writing a poem entitled ‘The Day Crude Oil Ran Out’.

A talk that enthralled pupils and staff alike, on venoms, poison dart frogs and crocodile blood...

On Friday 31st January, eight pupils from the Upper Sixth who are studying Classical Civilisation attended the Ancient Drama Festival held at Warwick University, which culminated in a performance of the Sophoclean mas...

On 16th January, we were delighted to welcome renowned historians Dr Sam Willis and Professor James Daybell, who gave a thought-provoking and very entertaining talk to pupils on ‘The Histories of the Unexpected'.