Park Post
Summer 2018
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This has been a unique year for The Park School and as the Head, I feel privileged to have steered the School as we have made the transition from the centre of Yeovil, where the School was founded in 1851, to the beautiful setting of Chilton Cantelo House. The School will be reunited in September when our 13 – 18 year olds join our younger pupils, who have already enjoyed a year in our new location.
Change can be unsettling and uncertain, but it can also open up exciting opportunities. To quote Barack Obama: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person – or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for; we are the change that we seek.” This has been a year of challenge for us all, with snow and floods adding to the pressures on staff teaching and working on two sites. However, with the sun now shining and much refurbishment and redecoration completed (and more scheduled over the summer holidays), the beautiful site at Chilton lends itself to Forest School, Welly Walks, Tree Planting and a wide range of sporting activities, all of which have already been enjoyed by our pupils. Our children are thriving in this delightful setting where imaginations run riot, building nests and camps and hideouts under the trees, or sitting watching and listening to the sounds of nature in our peaceful rural setting.
Welcome to our first school magazine
as The Park School, Chilton!
‘Our children are thriving in this delightful setting’...
I am delighted that with the support of our board of Governors, the dream, the vision of The Park School, at Chilton is coming to fruition.
There is a busy summer ahead, during which we will refurbish the Science Labs, ready for our Senior School students. We will move our Art and DT rooms, as well as our Computer Science Room, not to mention all our books, desks, and so on..... We will have a dedicated BTeC Sport Teaching room, in the main house acknowledging that this is an increasingly popular post 16 option, alongside our traditional A Levels.
We are also delighted that we will be building an outdoor classroom, supported by the generosity of our enthusiastic PTA, which has worked tirelessly to raise funds with some memorable events this year.
As I write it is hard to believe that it is just one year since we completed on our purchase and collected the keys to our lovely new home! I for one can’t wait to show you what we are going to achieve as a School in the coming academic year. I hope you enjoy a taste of what we have done this year, as you look through this magazine.
Independent Co-educational Day & Boarding 4-18