Trinity 2016 ISSUE 22
Sherborne News Comment …each boy is unique and we’re helping him navigate the ever-changing landscape of his adolescence…
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I must admit to having had some preconceptions about Sherborne before joining as the new Deputy Head (Pastoral) back in September. Mostly they were shaped by many Old Shirburnian friends and former colleagues of mine, but in part they were derived from dim and distant memories of playing against Sherborne as a young boy...when the UK was in the EU. The beautiful town feels marinated in history and so did the School when I nervously crunched across the Courts on my first morning at work. Tradition, in the best sense of the word, is strong here. It is seen in the buildings, heard at Lists when we sing the Carmen and felt on The Upper when the XV play in fixtures that have stretched back to the nineteenth century. I value that enormously as a history teacher and as someone who has experienced other schools without such an established identity. The things I could not have known, some of the deeper truths my experience here has revealed, show that Sherborne is far greater than that. I have been deeply impressed by the sense of service embodied by our pupils. I immediately think of the huge fundraising efforts by the staff and boys of The Green when running through the night for Macmillan Cancer Research. The pleasure of working here and living alongside my colleagues and the boys is in seeing the little things that shape our ethos in action every day. I remember
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