Dear Parents Watching the scenery go past whilst on a long train journey gives ample time for finding your own thoughts. So, as I was returning home on Saturday evening from a conference, between moments writing this Newsletter, I reflected back on what had been two active days of debate, discussion and information sharing. The […]
Dear Parents The start of this calendar year has seen various rules be put into place and others removed, and all within a period of ongoing absences from both staff and students that are beyond our control. It would be easy to highlight the challenges that this has brought, but that is now a well-rehearsed […]
Dear Parents On Monday of this week I have to admit I stood as normal on duty as the students arrived and gave over to a shiver. As I commented to many of our students as they came into school you could tell winter was upon us. The first deep frost and lingering cold of […]
It is fair to say that school life is thriving. Both in and out of the classroom the students are participating, learning and moving forward, both as individuals and with their studies. So that is the focus of much of this newsletter – the great things that have been going on in school and the […]
Dear Parents Since half-term students have come out of our geographical bubble areas and have been re-discovering the various parts of the school they have been cut off from since last March. It was delightful last week to see Year 7 occasionally lost, not to see them in any way distressed, but to know that […]
Dear Parents As I write this the sun is oddly warming my desk, a treat in the last few weeks it has to be said. April and the first week of May have been a meteorological surprise. I have to cast my mind back over 30 years to a point I can remember seeing snow […]
Dear Parents If I cast my mind back to this time of year in 2019, I would normally have been talking about the hectic period of coursework completion and marking that goes on before we get into the full swing of external exams. Instead, for the last two years we have been looking at a […]
Dear Parents There is information about next week to bring you up to date on. Return to School Information As we enter the last few days of this week it is gladdening to think that this time next week we will have seen all of our students back onsite; a week today we will be […]
Dear Parents The manner in which the students have engaged, as I say every week, has been very impressive throughout this half term. They have been producing very good work, and the various ongoing assessments are showing students have a good level of understanding of what they are covering. It was no surprise, therefore, that […]
Dear Parents This last week I was struck by just how much lighter it is getting in the morning, and how the evenings are actually now starting to draw out. I know I am lucky in that I get to go to work and leave my house each day, but it really is noticeable that […]
