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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.”
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.
ADAM SCOTT
Few articles in OP News can ever have been as opposite than Rich Alderton’s piece on ‘Adaptability’. On 20 March, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government ordered all UK schools to shut. The Perse closed its physical doors to all but the children of key workers. On 23 March our virtual doors re-opened, and so began our ‘new normal one’, a digitised Perse timetable consisting of Zoom lessons, OneNote exercises, and online assessments. Six weeks on I am pleased to report that The Perse has successfully adapted to its ‘new normal one’. Staff and pupil IT skills have greatly improved, students have become better independent learners, teachers are sharing more resources, and our videoconferenced parents’ evenings have been a hit. New ways of teaching and learning are flourishing – the part-Perse built Blutick maths learning platform has seen nearly one million questions answered by pupils across the globe.
At some point there will be a welcome return to the site, and a ‘new normal two’ – a socially distant Perse School. This will require more successful adaptions with changes such as the move to e-assemblies, non-contact sports, and virtual teamwork. And when the COVID-19 pandemic finally passes, we will move to a ‘new normal three’. A new normal that is the old Perse but better, because we will retain the successful adaptions we have made. We will relish the re-emergence of contact sports, major events and school trips, but we will also hold onto our greatly improved IT skills and our new ways of more efficient and effective working. Necessity, so often the mother of invention, will have moved us all forward.
With best wishes,
