Issue 1
Spring Term
9th January 2026
Dear Parents, Welcome back to the new school term in this new year. Welcome to 2026! From Chess Meet to Interhouse Hockey; the entrepreneurial Lifelab to French Breakfast; Wintershall Assembly to Class Assemblies; Open Book mornings to Parents’ Evenings; Mental Health Awareness Week (with Safer Internet Day) to Book Week (with dressing up and author visit), this will prove to be a jam-packed eleven week lead up to Easter. At the commencement of this term’s journey, let’s use all that has gone before (prior learning, previous experiences, earlier successes and past failures), all that has shaped us into the wonderful, Imago Dei people that we are to launch us into the term ahead. As the image below expresses, let us not waste any time with the frustrating ‘what if’s’ of past times – as if any amount of mental re-runs of those moments changes a single thing about our present, other than to lower our mood or raise our blood pressure! Instead, let’s consider ‘what if’ for the future, for the person we want to be becoming. What if I do xxxxx in the present (read more, get up and move more, look for opportunities to say positive things, find new ways to add kindness in my day, listen to my loved ones and find fresh ways to love them fully), so that I become xxxxx in the future (more knowledgeable, fitter, more grateful, more joy-filled, more relational).
Happy New Year – may 2026 be a year of blessing to you and your family, Gareth Tindall