Lent 2016 ISSUE 21
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Comment from the Headmaster We will not seek to make Sherborne a different type of School but will strive to make it the best that it can be.
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My first term at Sherborne has only served to reinforce what a tremendous privilege it is to lead such a great School. Since arriving in January, I have been overwhelmed by the warmth of the welcome I have received. The friendliness and openness of our boys, staff and parents has helped me not only to feel at home but also to get my bearings and to understand better the things that make our School so special. Many things here are simply world class. High academic expectations and outstanding pastoral care are, and must remain, the bedrock of a Sherborne education. Our musical, artistic and sporting provision is outstanding and all our boys have access to an extraordinary range of co-curricular opportunities. All of this is underpinned by a subtle yet profound spirituality and sense of the world beyond the individual. As we look to the future, we need to build upon and celebrate these strengths. At the same time, we need to have the institutional honesty and objectivity to acknowledge and address those things that can and should be better. It is with these principles in mind that we have set about the task of creating a Strategic Plan to guide our future development. In creating the Plan, we have made extensive use of the anonymised survey of parents, staff and prep school Heads that we conducted in the Trinity Term. We have analysed key metrics and tested our initial conclusions through both
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