Firstly, I would like to say how pleasing it is to have Year 13 back in school. They returned last Thursday after having to self-isolate at home for the previous two weeks. Lessons during that time continued virtually via Microsoft Teams, but nothing can replace being in the classroom and engaging with the learning there. Welcome back Year 13.
Each week, as we progress through the term and our new way of working, we are looking to see if we can introduce some of the activities that would normally go on in and around school. A number of them have evolved and moved to a temporary home on line, but senior rugby training for years 12 and 13 has started, CCF training and parade continues on a Thursday, and this week preparations for the next Harvard trip begin. And also, very soon, peripatetic music lessons begin. All of these activities are being risk assessed to ensure they can go ahead, with the long term aim being to bring back as many as possible, but as carefully as possible. It is vitally important that we return to the MGS we remember.
Just a quick update, the all-weather pitch is coming on well with a completion date around the middle of November. As I do a lot of my duty in the Year 7 area up by the new pavilion, I have watched the progress of the pitch on a daily basis. I was particularly impressed with the machine being used to ensure each level of hard core and gravel being laid are level. Now the fencing posts are being installed right around the pitch as well as the retaining wall that lines the edge that runs adjacent to the school building. We are all looking forward to it being completed.
