Headmaster's message Friday 6th October 2023

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 Dear Parents and Guardians,


This week we have celebrated our annual Science Week. This is now a significant event in our calendar which each year goes from strength to strength. This year's theme was 'The Atmosphere' which gave us an excellent opportunity to explore a range of themes including how objects move through the atmosphere, the different atmospheric layers and climate science and meteorology. The week ended with one of Mr Neville's now legendary assemblies and this year, it was beyond amazing. Mr Neville kept the plans very secret and I had heard rumours about him coming down from the ceiling in the Araya Hall. What we did not expect was for Mr Neville to have completed a skydive for the event. It was truly outstanding!

This week and next week we are running our leadership development programme with two highly skilled trainers from the UK running professional development for staff as well as our Sixth Form prefect team who had an excellent session yesterday. It is now an annual part of our professional development calendar which will help us to continue to raise the standard of leadership in the school.

This week we held our Pre-Prep parent forum and next Tuesday we have the Prep Parent Forum at 8am. We will also be launching a range of community building events next term, starting with a coffee morning in the garden on 27th October. Save the date!

Next week, we will not have a newsletter due to the break. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a pleasant break. I hope all of our students get plenty of rest and come back refreshed for the next half of term.

Jonny Liddell

Headmaster