Dear Parents and Carers I hope this letter finds you and your families well. Attendance this week stands at 92%. While this continues to sit above the national average, we are determined to improve attendance further still. Attendance matters enormously: one day missed each week equates to around 38 days of learning lost over a school year; one day each month adds up to more than a week of learning; and even a single day missed each half term soon accumulates. We know how muc

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