Welcome back from the Easter holiday; I
hope you all had a good break. Firstly, I
wish to thank everyone who continued working over the holiday to prepare for
our return. Much work has gone on around
the site and many members of staff have been in school supporting numerous
students who are busy revising. Thank
you very much.
If like me you were able to enjoy some
Easter television, I hope you were able to catch two very interesting
programmes. Indian Summer School, a
Channel 4 programme about five British teenagers who spent six months studying
in The Doon School in India; and Living With The Brainy Bunch, a BBC programme
about two struggling teenagers who lived for six weeks with a different family
seeing how their learning habits differed from their hosts’. Both programmes of course raised further
questions, but on the whole were incredibly interesting and ended with some very
strong messages. If you missed them then
I am sure they are still available on iPlayer.
Year 11, 12 and 13 students are now in
their last few weeks of school before the summer examinations begin. I hope the two-week holiday was productive
and that those students have returned to school better prepared for what is to
come. Keep working.
This week the Year 12 geography students
are completing their essential A Level fieldwork in Dorset. I still remember my own fieldwork in the Forest
of Dean and the Isle of Wight measuring footpath erosion, counting cars in the
local town and establishing the impact of longshore drift on the beach. Let us hope they are enjoying
themselves.
Finally, tomorrow Year 13 will be having
their leavers’ photo taken. It is a
chance for the entire year group to capture a moment in time which I know many
will look back on in years to come.
Let’s hope the weather is good so the photo can be taken outside.
