Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another busy and purposeful week in school, with lots to celebrate and a few important reminders to share. I led assemblies this week focussing on herd mentality, the bystander effect and morbid curiosity, exploring why people sometimes follow the crowd, stay silent, or spectate when they know something isn’t right.  Students were encouraged to think cr

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, and that you had a restful and enjoyable holiday break.  Happy New Year to you all.  As we return to school, we do so with renewed energy and a shared readiness for the challenges and opportunities of the new term ahead. The start of a new calendar year always brings with it a powerful sense of possibility.  It is another opportunity for a fresh start — for students to reflect, reset and work towards

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well as we come to the end of a busy, joyful and very festive term. It has been a really good final week in school. There was a lovely atmosphere throughout the building, not least on Wednesday when huge numbers of students enjoyed Christmas lunch together. It was genuinely lovely to see staff and students sitting, eating and chatting side by side. Celebration assemblies have also taken place across the

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well.  As we move into the final full week of term, there is lots to celebrate and share with you. Thank you once again for your patience following last week’s electrical fire in the canteen. The team has worked incredibly hard to get things back up and running and we returned to full service today.  I will update you immediately if any further issues arise, but hopefully we are out the other side now.  Yo

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another full and positive week in school, so I wanted to share some key updates with you. Thank you once again for your patience and understanding on Tuesday when we had to close the school due to the local power cut and subsequent electrical fire, affecting the extractor on the roof of the canteen.  The word fire  is always unsettling, but our teams

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your loved ones well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another full and positive week in school, so I wanted to share some key updates with you. Attendance - Our whole school attendance for last week was 93.32% . Here is the breakdown by year group: Year 7  - 95.11% Year 8  - 93.35% Year 9  - 90.34% Year 10 - 94.20% Year 11 - 93.67% It was fantastic to see families at Thursday’s Year 9 Progress Evening. 

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It has been another busy and positive week in school.  I wanted to share a few important updates with you below. Attendance - Our whole school attendance for last week was 94.00% . Here is the breakdown by year group: Year 7:  95.34% Year 8:  94.11% Year 9:  92.29% Year 10:  92.68% Year 11:  95.92% This week, our students enjoyed two live language theatre performances in

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. Tutor–Parent Day yesterday was once again a highlight for us.  It is always a pleasure to welcome families into school for meetings with form tutors, to discuss how students are getting on.  I was particularly proud to see so many of our students walking their families through the school, pointing out classroom spaces, displays and the work they are doing.  These moments d

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. Welcome back, I hope you all had a restful half term and enjoyed some quality time together.  It has been a great start to this next half of term, with students returning focused and ready to learn.  The first few days have been full of purposeful energy and good learning across the school.  Our assemblies this week have reflected on Armistice Day and the significan

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as we finish for the half term. It is pleasing to share that this week our whole-school attendance has risen to 94.41% , up from 94.09%  last week. This is a positive step in the right direction and highlights the impact of regular attendance on student progress and wellbeing. Your support is invaluable in helping us move closer to our whole-school target of 98% .  Every day i

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  It’s been another busy and inspiring week here at Kelmscott, with lots happening both in and beyond the classroom, as we have come to expect. On Wednesday, our Year 7 students had the chance to experience the Astrodome, a mobile planetarium organised by the Science Department. This immersive dome transported them through the night sky, exploring planets, constellat

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always.  I am delighted to share...

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. We were deeply saddened...

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well; a Friday update for you as always. We welcomed record...

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, a Friday update for you as always. Attendance first of all,...

Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, a Friday update for you.  We have had a very positive week...

Dear Parents/Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well, a Friday update for you as always, as we come to the end of the...

Dear Parents/Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well. A summer update for you as we approach the start of a new...

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Drone footage collected and edited by Year 9 student Filip Ionescu - Great work!