Category: Head’s Blog

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 5

27th May 22

Even as we welcomed back Year 6 from their residential trip, we said goodbye to our Years 3, 4 and 5 who drove off on their residentials to Condover Hall, Colomendy and Bushcraft. The excitement was palpable as they headed off with rucksacks in tow. It was fantastic to visit the Year 6 children last week,…

Headmaster’s Blog – week 4

20th May 22

With a little hesitation, the sun is putting his hat on. One could feel almost sorry for Coleen, Rebekah, Wayne and their legal teams. Poor things: all cooped up in that stifling High Court, the two leading protagonists dressed to kill; nobody able to inhale anything other than poisonous air. For the rest of us,…

Headmaster’s Blog- Week 3

13th May 22

We take so much for granted these days, do we not? Television, radio, the Internet, the aeroplane, the motor car, the mobile phone, the vacuum cleaner and the electric toothbrush. It is hard to imagine that 300 years ago we had none of these things. Indeed, although the seed drill had just been invented, we…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 2

6th May 22

On a visit to Conkers Activity Centre this week, Year 1 enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities as part of their Science topic on Trees. They took part in a host of activities that you can read about on the school website. From what they have told me, the little ones enjoyed not only gaining some…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 1

29th April 22

As I write, I am looking forward to meeting the School Leaders as we prepare to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and to celebrate her unprecedented achievement of reaching 70 years on the throne. I have no doubt that they will craft what promises to be a memorable assembly and I feel sure that the…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 12

4th April 22

Yesterday evening, partly because I was anxious to increase my driving efficiency and partly because the task was long overdue, I drove to my local garage to put some air in the tyres. As many of my loyal car-owning readers will well know, this is not a simple process. If one was not afraid of…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 11

25th March 22

This week started on a multitude of perfectly pitched high notes and melodic sounds, as our major individual music competition came to a thrilling crescendo following weeks of auditions. On Monday, our visiting adjudicator, Nadia Hinson, oversaw musicianship of stunning quality and variety across Year Groups and disciplines. From the semi-final we narrowed down to…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 10

18th March 22

A famous Russian, Leo Tolstoy, once said “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace, knew something about emotion. Which makes me wonder: on a quiet evening in the Kremlin, what sort of music would Vladimir Putin sit down to? Or, were Putin to be voluntarily stranded on Roy…

Headmaster’s Blog – Week 8

4th March 22

For the early part of the week, as Vladimir Putin built up troops and then started an indiscriminate shelling of major Ukrainian cities, I was sheltering. My minor COVID inconvenience is now at an end, but for all Ukrainians the nightmare gets worse. At present, we pray for those under the bully’s fire, and for…

Headmaster’s Blog

18th February 22

Just as the book Wind in the Willows was inspired by a love of family, so too was the classic Peter Pan, the dramatisation of which has illuminated the school so brightly this week. The characters of Peter and Tinkerbelle came to J.M.Barrie, so I understand, as he formed the idea of telling a tale…