FROM SCHOOL THENEWS HEAD
The consultants were able to clearly articulate FFI’s role within the wider conservation movement, and celebrated the value of our relatively modest size, stating that we appeared to combine some of the best characteristics of being a big organisation with those of being small. The report also reiterated our own internal perspectives of FFI’s unique role, which focuses on “(i) collaboration through lasting partnerships, (ii) leadership through innovative models, and (iii) a lean entrepreneurial style allowing fast and flexible engagement on critical issues.” FFI’S NICHE IS CLEAR The consultants were able to clearly articulate FFI’s role within the wider conservation movement, and celebrated the value of our relatively modest size, stating that we appeared to combine some of the best characteristics of being a big organisation with those of being small. The report also reiterated our own internal perspectives of FFI’s unique role, which focuses on “(i) collaboration through lasting partnerships, (ii) leadership through innovative models, and (iii) a lean entrepreneurial style allowing fast and flexible engagement on critical issues.”
ADAM SCOTT
FFI’S NICHE IS CLEAR
THE U14 GIRLS’ HOCKEY TEAM PRODUCED A FINE DISPLAY IN THE INVESTEC ENGLAND HOCKEY NATIONAL SCHOOLS FINALS AT LEE VALLEY HOCKEY & TENNIS CENTRE, COMING JOINT FIFTH.
From the Head
F
ew articles in OP News can ever have been
At some point there will be a welcome return to
as opposite than Rich Alderton’s piece
the site, and a ‘new normal two’ – a socially distant
on ‘Adaptability’.
Perse School. This will require more successful
On 20 March, in response to the COVID-19
adaptions with changes such as the move to
pandemic, the government ordered all UK schools
e-assemblies, non-contact sports, and virtual
to shut. The Perse closed its physical doors to all but
teamwork. And when the COVID-19 pandemic finally
the children of key workers. On 23 March our virtual
passes, we will move to a ‘new normal three’. A
doors re-opened, and so began our ‘new normal
new normal that is the old Perse but better, because
one’, a digitised Perse timetable consisting of Zoom
we will retain the successful adaptions we have
lessons, OneNote exercises, and online assessments.
made. We will relish the re-emergence of contact
Six weeks on I am pleased to report that The
sports, major events and school trips, but we will also
Perse has successfully adapted to its ‘new normal
hold onto our greatly improved IT skills
one’. Staff and pupil IT skills have greatly improved,
and our new ways of more efficient and
students have become better independent learners,
effective working.
teachers are sharing more resources, and our video-
Necessity, so often the mother
conferenced parents’ evenings have been a hit. New
of invention, will have moved us
ways of teaching and learning are flourishing –
all forward.
the part-Perse built Blutick maths learning platform has seen nearly one million
With best wishes, Ed Elliott
questions answered by pupils across the globe.
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