As you know, or rather, as you should know if you were listening a few weeks ago, I have been keeping a Gratitude diary for the last few weeks and number 70 in my list of things for which I feel grateful this year is having discovered the podcast, “Strangers on a Bench”. Have you […]

1st Team Captains The netball and boys’ hockey 1st teams have established themselves well so far this season and have made equally strong starts to their respective campaigns. I can now announce the captains of our senior 1st teams for the term: Hockey – Barney T Netball – Freya H U14A Girls Hockey Semi Final […]

Welcome back. I hope you all had a good Christmas and that you return refreshed and looking forward to the term ahead. The Year 11s aren’t with us this morning because they start their mocks today – we wish them every success with those. A few words about the Ski Trip. Miss Williams who led […]

Well, I hope you had a wonderful half-term. I have heard great things about the school trips that have happened whilst we have been away: our wonderful and longstanding Japanese Exchange, hosted by the parents, pupils and staff of the Aoyama Gakuin School in Tokyo; a successful Year 11 Silver Duke of Edinburgh Expedition, and […]

I thought it was only right for me to speak today about the extraordinary example of Rob Burrow, the Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain rugby league international who died last week aged 41.  As many of you will know, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019 and whilst he was already an […]

I would like to start by congratulating all those in Year 9 who took part in the Year 9 play last week, a process of many weeks, culminating in two excellent performances here in Great Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evening.   Mrs Pulman-Jones had written a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ famous novel Great Expectations, […]