Day School & Sixth Form Newsletter 28 May 2021
The Headline Firstly, thank you so much for the ‘inundation’ of emails (there is no collective noun for emails so I shall propose this one) congratulating me on my new position with The National College, and on the birth of my son. I was genuinely humbled that so many of you took the time to send in such kind words of support. Mrs. Blake and baby Tom are both doing wonderfully well, and I have realised that I clearly missed a trick in not asking you all to write my reference! Thank you - it really does mean a lot to me that this journey we have taken together has meant so much to you. Secondly, what a wonderfully busy, bustling, buzzy week it’s been here at HQ, with rehearsals galore for shows that are now just around the half-term corner, the very successful A Level Devising Performances, and all the hard-work and dedication that I know have gone into every Assessment and every end of year exam that the pupils and sixth formers have completed this week. It’s been a powerful and poignant reminder of how special this place is, and how special our young people are as people, as learners, and as performers. Next week is the half-term break, and I hope you all have exciting things planned and that the weather is kind especially if you’re planning an outside event, and then we enter the last half-term of the year which is promising to be one filled with performances – and of course Prizegiving 2021. I look forward to seeing as many of you as will be possible as we travel through June and July, and to sharing our events with you as the world hopefully continues to turn a little more normally than it has over the last 18 months. Have an enjoyable and restful half-term break. AB