It's amazing how popular you can become by cancelling a day of school due to bad weather! Anyone would think that three day weekends were a popular phenomenon! In all seriousness, I would like to thank you all for being patient at pick up on Thursday last week, and for your kind words to the staff who were working hard to ensure the safety of all the children.

Wow! What a week we have had! Firstly Mr Spanswick has been unwell since half term and Mrs Nott unfortunately broke her ankle on Wednesday evening, so you’re left with me. We wish them both speedy recoveries.

As we move closer to half term, the school is drawn again towards our considerable efforts supporting the charity groups whom we hold so close to our hearts. The stories behind The Link Foundation and Rosie’s Rainbow and the tireless work of their founders, Una Loughrey and Carolyn Mayling, inspire me every day to ensure that my staff and I present our pupils with the right perspective on life and to encourage an active interest in their local community. The traits of modesty and selflessness amongst our boys were two areas that our visiting inspectors picked up on immediately last week and lavished great praise on the pupils and staff for this.

Our first week of fixtures has been such a success. Our Under 9 team played their first football matches for the school against an extremely strong St Paul’s team, and every match was very close. Mr Barber also noted the exemplary behaviour the boys demonstrated while visiting this big London school, and he was very proud of the boys attitude, character shown in the games, and drive to do their best. 

Happy New Year!!

I hope you were all able to to enjoy a peaceful Christmas break, and seeing the boys tearing around the playground yesterday, it would seem they have had a very good rest and have lots of energy to burn!

The Lent Term, while being the shortest of the three, is often considered to be the busiest. We have so much to look forward to including workshares, joint music concerts and musical visits to London, football matches and cross country events, Sevens rugby festivals, sports tours to the West Country, books and bushcraft evenings, French breakfasts, regional and national chess tournaments, our charity week, visits to the Living Rainforest, the Roald Dahl Museum, the National Archives…….I could go on!! All in all, lots of fun and hard work to be getting on with!