Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Last week began with a surprise appearance from winter. Snow fell briefly, just long enough for students to get excited and for staff to wonder if break duty would require skis! The snow didn’t stay for long, much to the student’s...

Dear parents, guardians and friends One of the wonderful things about being a teacher is the opportunity that it affords to work alongside hundreds of creative people each day. On Tuesday evening, our Year 11 GCSE musicians put on a concert to showcase their work. Mr...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends We ended last week with a PSHE performance for our Year 8 students entitled “hooked”. This event was organised by Mrs Hornblow, our head of PSHE who said; On Friday, Year 8 students watched a short theatre production called...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Welcome back! We’ve hit the ground running this half term, especially for our Year 13 and Year 11 students who are straight into their PPEs. Good luck to all of them! It’s a marathon, not a sprint, between now and the summer exams,...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends,   The leaves are changing, the nights are beginning to draw in, everything smells delightfully like Pumpkin Spice, and the first half term is almost at an end. What a half term it’s been- we’ve had MacMillan Coffee Morning, a...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, I am starting off the blog this week  with some sporting success. Mrs Bolton and Miss Johnson took 3 teams of great runners to the Berkshire round of the Cross Country Cup at Reading Bluecoat last Tuesday.  All the girls had an...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends,   We are just beyond the midpoint of this half term and already there is so much to share.   Last Friday our Year 11 students did a great job distributing the harvest food parcels amongst elderly residents in the local...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends What have you eaten so far today? Of course, it depends when you are reading this, but I’m sure we can all picture the tasty breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack we’ve had recently. Many of us may have thought about what to choose,...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Our last blog of September is here, and perhaps the dust is beginning to settle on the new term. The new Year 7 students are successfully navigating our school site, donations for our harvest festival are piling high (more on that...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends The school site had lots of work done to it over the summer holidays, with the last of the scaffolding being removed over the last few days. The work includes long awaited repairs on the hall and café roofs, replacement fire doors...