Ian Powell Memorial Award

Father Andrew Robinson has maintained a generous and creative spirit during the most challenging of times.

He is our all-singing, all-dancing, video-making, joke-making, prayer-giving Chaplain who has generously shared his skills every week to help deliver Chapel services, as well as Assemblies and, who could forget his take-over of House Music this year.

Andrew’s pedagogy, particularly through his sermons, is superb to behold in reaching young people where they are, spiritually, culturally, conceptually, in all their diversity. He presents the messages and values of Christianity in a fast-changing world with genuine personal integrity.

To students, staff, parents and alumni, Andrew is generous with his time, a compassionate listener, discrete and circumspect in his advice. He is sensitive and wise (perhaps beyond his years), and he leads by example, in service, humour and warmth. He plays a critical role in supporting the School community when we grieve, as we did this year, giving in support to all who need it, even as he deals with his own grief.

During the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, Andrew shouldered a considerable and often solitary burden of writing, filming, editing and producing online services and events. In so doing, like all, he faced doubts about the traction of his work, but he kept turning to the camera and speaking to our need for connection, courage, hope, and faith.

We are blessed indeed, and we thank him beyond words.

– Sandy Goddard, Director of Community Development