The Student Voice
This week in assembly I fed back to the boys the things that were shared at the Student Council meeting held just before half-term.
This week in assembly I fed back to the boys the things that were shared at the Student Council meeting held just before half-term.
Music has been much on my mind recently. Over the last week or so, we have been receiving the results of our boys' Music Scholarship auditions, there has been a lot of good news, and a lot of very happy boys.
I had Year 5 parents’ evenings last week, Year 7 parents’ evenings this week, and I have started my Year 5 Future Schools meetings (potentially 42 half hour meetings in three weeks – phew!); I have spent a lot of time talking about pupils’ progress and potential with parents in the last 10 days.
One of the presents I received from Mrs Duncan at Christmas (and is sitting on my desk as I type), is a Bob Ross page-a-day desk calendar.
Is it better to be Steve Bull or Cristiano Ronaldo? A provocative question I know, but bear with me.
As we reach the end of the first week of the Lent term it has been wonderful to see the boys again. All seem to be getting back into the swing of things after the shock of the first few days (this is true for teachers as well as the boys!).
Another Pilgrims’ term draws to a successful close. In our final assembly on Wednesday, I thanked all the boys and the staff for making it such a good and productive term.
This will be strikingly similar to a Pilgrims’ Way article I wrote in the summer! It will also be necessarily short as I have spent much of my time this week writing reports for all the boys.
I hope that you have been enjoying the first week of the World Cup. There is, of course, some controversy around the staging of this World Cup that has perhaps made it difficult to feel as enthusiastic about it as we might normally do.
It has been a great week to be in our community. Last week's fireworks display was a wonderful community occasion. To enjoy an event like that, together, was special.
An interesting article on BBC sport here caught my eye last week. James Milner is one step away from his 600th Premier League appearance; if he plays this weekend (as he well might), he will join an illustrious list of just three players to have reached that milestone – Frank Lampard (609), Ryan Giggs (632) and Gareth Barry (653).
It is too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that education is a narrow concept confined to the three Rs; Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmatic! I know that I am preaching to the converted, but I wrote in my last article about something called Cultural Capital, and I would like to expand on what it is and why I think it is important.