Stocks Review Summer-2022

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IPS STOCKS REVIEW

From the Head

Dear Stocks,

I am delighted to introduce this first edition of The Stocks Review, curated and edited by our wonderful School Archivist, Angela Platt.

In it, you will find profiles and updates of many ex-pupils who have stayed in touch with the School and who continue to make a positive impact upon our community.

We are fortunate at IPS in being able to draw upon such a wonderfully diverse and committed alumni community. Now that the school is firmly into its second century of our existence, the former pupils of IPS have gone on to achieve in an enormous variety of fields. As they do so, they take an identifiable set of values and characteristics into their endeavours – most particularly, an appreciation of the virtues of hard work, compassion, imagination and, above all else, the service of others. We are so very proud of all which they do. Indeed, we also appreciate the superb level of support which our Stocks give to us. From dispensing higher education advice to our Sixth Formers through to their participation in alumni sports fixtures, it is wonderful to see and to feel the enduring bonds which so many of our alumni feel to their alma mater. In their interactions with the present-day pupils and sta of the School, they remind us all that we are so much bigger than ourselves, and that we can call upon a much wider network of which we are just one part. In a fast-changing and sometimes disorientating world, this is a powerful message which can bring comfort and inspiration by turns. We should like very much to develop this publication in the months to come. If you would like to appear within its pages, or you would like to nominate someone who might be persuaded to do so, then please get in touch. You can send an email to alumni@ ibstockplaceschool.co.uk. Similarly, if you have ideas as to how we might orientate this publication in its future issues then, again, please do drop us a line. The Stocks community is very much your community, and it matters that all of us feel that we have some purchase over its onward development.

I hope that you enjoy reading Stocks Review and I look forward to hearing your reactions to it.

Christopher Wolsey Headmaster