To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2026, we caught up with #ShiplakeOldViking Wallace Fisher (22E), who has recently finished a three-year apprenticeship with Hudson Boat Works. You can read the full article at www.shiplake.org.uk/news/2026-02... #ShiplakeCommunity #NAW2026
We’re pleased to welcome #ShiplakeOldViking Simon Faulker (85E) to our Wellbeing Day for a session on Gap Year travel and personal safety. Simon uses his expertise to run bespoke safety courses for young people traveling abroad. Book your tickets via connected.shiplake.org.uk/events/view/...
Congratulations to #ShiplakeOldViking Polly Hart (25E) for being shortlisted in The Arts Society's A Level Art Competition 2025-2026. Her striking screen print titled 'You Don't Know What You Have Lost Until It Has Gone' is up for public voting via theartssociety.org/level-art-co...
It was wonderful to once again welcome back #ShiplakeOldViking Rory Abery (20W) to deliver a talk on ADHD to our #ShiplakeSixthForm pupils! Rory previosuly visited during INSET to talk to our #ShiplakeStaff and today it was the turn of our pupils. #ShiplakeIndividual
#ShiplakeDrama is already looking ahead and is already planning BIG! Auditions were held last week in the Tithe Barn for our next whole school production, 'Our House', and we can't wait! Great as well to see #ShiplakeOldViking, F Collar (25O), back helping and on the panel. #ShiplakeIndividual
Three days of #ShiplakeStaff INSET is complete: welcoming new colleagues, hearing from #ShiplakeOldViking Rory Abery (20W) on ADHD strategies, and team-building with an Old School Sports Day & Quiz! We're ready for the 2025-2026 academic year to begin! #ShiplakeInspirational
'It was part of who we were'
#ShiplakeOldViking Ben Hunt-Davis (90W) shares how the culture of sporting passion at Shiplake College helped shape his journey to Olympic gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Sign up now for #ShiplakeFestivalOfSport at buff.ly/KteNDaD #ShiplakeCommunity
Today we hear from #ShiplakeOldViking John Falk (71B) who reflects on #ShiplakeRugby at Shiplake during the 60s and 70s. His story highlights the power of teamwork - a value that still shapes #ShiplakeSport today. Register a team for Festival of Sport at buff.ly/KteNDaD
Good luck to our boys' quad who are racing at #HRR25 today; boating at 10.20am, racing 11.00am! We look forward to seeing many of you there supporting! Good luck to #ShiplakeOldViking Callan Wallis (24B) who is racing at 10.55am and to #ShiplakeYear12 pupil C Watkins who is coxing at 5.50pm! #GoBees
It was fantastic to welcome back #ShiplakeOldViking Harry Conibear-Griffiths (12B) to the College for a #ShiplakeScholars' Masterclass. Harry's talk was on crisis management; read more at https://f.mtr.cool/cusoqcronj #ShiplakeIndividual
