The College held its annual lunch for parents on Saturday March 14th, to coincide with students getting ready to go home for the Easter vacation. The parents invited were those with undergraduates in their first year, and almost 200 people had lunch in the College Hall.
The Master, Roger Mosey, explained the reason for the event in a short speech at the end of the lunch: "We want to thank you for the support you've given to your students over the years. Parents are very much part of this community, and we're looking at more ways in which we can involve parents and families in what we do. It's partly that family involvement strengthens us all: to use a political phrase, we're all in this together. We don't want the feeling that your student goes off to somewhere you never see, and emerges as part of some kind of club from which feel the rest of the family feels excluded. It's partly because it's just a good thing to do: my own parents would have absolutely loved to have lunch in my Oxford college, but this would have been unheard of in the 1970s. What we also hope today is that this will help you fly the flag for Selwyn - so that you can tell people in your wider family or neighbourhood, or in schools your other children might go to, that this is a good place and one you'd recommend. "
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