Head Teacher's Message

We have experienced an incredibly busy term and we have had much to celebrate. Once again I would like to thank all of the students and staff who came together to stage our first musical production - The Lion King. We have celebrated the hard work and efforts of our teams who fought hard battles on the fields with many wins, draws and admirable losses. There are also those students who took part in academic challenges including Bebras and Junior maths challenge. We celebrate the all.

It is important that I acknowledge the expectational challenges we have experienced over the last two years and the significant disruption we have all experienced, in some form, to our learning.

For all of us, the end of this term marks the first time in three academic years that we have all been in school for two consecutive terms. What I mean by this is, in the academic year 2019-2020 the disruption to our learning resulted in two terms of remote/online learning and, in 2020-2021 after the autumn term in school, we learned remotely for the spring term before returning to school in the summer term.

For many of us this has been incredibly tiring and challenging without realising why! Many parents/carers have now also returned to work offices for the first time in two years and we are all still adapting to this new landscape - whilst still experiencing illness within our families. It is important that we all continue to support each other and the school community during this next period of adjustment.

This week we also successfully dropped off a large number of donations at the Prosperity Café in Twickenham - thank you again for your generous support last week; including a donation of some beautiful hand knitted hats made by a community knitting group in Kew Gardens. Thank you to the Facilities Team for filling the mini-bus and dropping the donations off.

The summer term brings both challenges and opportunities from new enrichment choices, learning more about what GCSE courses students will be following next year, to the challenges and opportunities our Year 11 students face as they embark on their GCSE exams.

Wishing you all a restful Easter break and I hope that you are able to spend time with family and loved ones and recharge your batteries.

Ms K Dooley