Category: Head’s Blog

29th September 23

This week, I spent some reflective time at the annual IAPS conference in Liverpool. Such events are good for the soul, lend perspective and provide a strong overview of the Educational landscape. Based on the seminars and keynote speakers from Julie Robinson, CEO of the Independent Schools Council, to the fully tattooed ‘Scary Guy’, who…

22nd September 23

Is it just me, or has some of the romance gone out of life? Not domestically, of course, but in an ecological, cultural, meteorological sense. A couple of hundred years ago, the poet John Keats was writing whimsically about autumn as the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. Now, we seem to pass straight from…

15th September 23

We know that the Duke Orsino maintained in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that music was the food of love. Living so close to Cadbury World, some of us may take issue with that! Whatever your taste, BCS pulls out all the stops (pun intended) this week, providing everybody with something. Our school organist Ashley Wagner and…

8th September 23

With our superb catering team conjuring up a Harry Potter-esque atmosphere, this week’s House Suppers for Chandler and Grace House introduced our new House system in magical style. The tables were decked out in House colours and the two House Captains certainly made their mark. Mia (Chandler House) and Rayan (Grace House) gave an insight…

13th July 23

Welcome, ladies and gentleman, girls and boys! Just to check that your brains have not gone into standby mode, I have a quick test for you.  I’d like you to turn to the person next to you, please.  While you’re there, say something nice to them.  It doesn’t matter what, just pay them a compliment,…

7th July 23

As I write my last Update of this academic year, I feel that the penultimate week sums up beautifully in its variety, all that is so exciting about our School.  On Monday, I was fortunate to join the outgoing Year 6 cohort as they made their way to Aztec Adventure in Worcester. The children and…

30th June 23

‘Bringing together two of literature’s most-loved characters, ‘Sherlock & Cinders’ is an ensemble piece ideal for 9-13 year olds.’  So said the blurb about the play, and the blurb proved to be absolutely spot on. The Year 6 production was an unqualified triumph last evening, with Cast 1, Mr Coley and Mr Matthews’ cohorts, giving…

23rd June 23

‘Time flies,’ they say, ‘when you are having fun’.  As another busy week reaches its climax, we are enjoying ourselves so much that I cannot work out where the term is going! Before I discuss the events of this week, I must congratulate the Music Scholars, who delivered an exceptional concert in Chapel last Friday…

16th June 23

Anything that I write below will be overshadowed by the awful events of early this week in the city of Nottingham. I will add nothing more, because it is so appalling and upsetting to consider the circumstances and the emotional aftermath. Except to write these Biblical words: ‘Love is patient, love is kind. It does…

9th June 23

There are not very many of us alive who have any significant memory of the Second World War. But this week, amazingly, we played a proud host to a woman who played a leading part in the downfall of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. On Tuesday evening, we welcomed Betty Webb, MBE, a former code…