Welcome from the Head Master Dr Gary Savage
Dear Elizabethan Club members, I write my first introductory note to you as Head Master at the end of a simply extraordinary year. When it began, we were dealing with the two very important challenges posed by the continuing pandemic and by the Black Lives Matter movement. Then, in January, the second wave of COVID-19 forced us into a renewed period of fully remote teaching and learning, which only concluded in March – at about the same time we were confronted by the further challenge of Everyone’s Invited and the Westminster Testimonies. In addition, we have been seeking since January to understand how precisely the government would like us to assess pupils’ work for the purposes of GCSE and A Level this year. In each instance, we have sought to act with the integrity and probity which you would expect, notwithstanding the complexity and difficulty of the matters in hand. It has not been easy, but I think we have made progress. ➽
ISSUE 2020/21
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