Kirkham Grammar School Junior, Infant and Pre-School Issue 10 Friday 4 March 2016 Dear Parents Once again the past fortnight has been a very interesting and productive one here at the Junior School. It was lovely to welcome our special visitors from Drapers Hall , London, last Friday, including the Master Draper, Mr John Giffard and our Drapers’ Governor, Mr John Borradaile. I would like to thank our Head Boy and Head Girl, Thomas Shuttleworth and Poppy Kearsley, along with our Drapers House Captains, Charlie Read and Amy Merrick, who showed our visitors around the school and were wonderful ambassadors for KGJS. This half term is an extremely busy time for our sports teams and Performing Arts pupils. They have been involved in a number of competitions and events, more of which you will read about in this newsletter, which includes the Choir’s trip to Manchester Arena for the Young Voices Concert. I am looking forward to welcoming many of you at our forthcoming Cheese and Wine Evening which our Junior performers are busily preparing for. I am so proud of our pupils for the commitment they demonstrate to all our school events. Finally, thank you to everyone who came to support our very first Farmers’ Market. I am sure that those who attended will agree that this was a superb event and here’s to the next! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Mrs AS Roberts Follow me on Twitter: Annette Roberts @KGJShead
On Friday 26 February, Kirkham Grammar School welcomed Mr John Giffard, Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers in London, for an official visit to the School. The School’s association with the Drapers’ Company dates back to the middle of the 17 th century. For almost four hundred years this prestigious City of London Company has taken an active interest in the life and work of our school. The Drapers Company is a charitable trust which has similar connections with a number of other schools and universities throughout the UK. The Master, which is a ceremonial post to which a senior member of the Company is elected to serve for a year, visits charities and organisations supported by the Company as part of his year of office. Mr Giffard, a former Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police, was accompanied by the Clerk of the Company, Colonel Richard Winstanley, its Head of Charities, Mr Andy Mellows and the School’s Drapers Governor, Mr John Borradaile. The guests started their day with an assembly at the Junior School, followed by a tour of the school. During their visit they were entertained by the Junior School Choir, before heading over to the Senior School. They were joined for lunch by Mrs Roberts, Mrs Shuttleworth and our Head Boy and Head Girl, Thomas Shuttleworth and Poppy Kearsley. They left having seen at first hand the vibrancy of our traditional, yet forward-looking, school. Mr Giffard expressed how delighted he was with the warmth of the welcome that he had received from both pupils and staff, and was deeply impressed by the diversity of activities that he had witnessed across the two schools.