Headmaster's Welcome
Dear Parents
This week we have seen another fun-filled, packed week with lots going on. Although rather wet and cold, this has not held us back in a host of action taking place this week, including sports fixtures and forest school.
Two of our J6 pupils, Ben and Isabella, represented the school at the ISA Skiing Championships on Monday in Hemel Hempstead. Well done to both pupils who did so well and, most importantly, had a great time!
We celebrated our Harvest Mass on Tuesday, which aligns so perfectly with our ethos. We share with others, take care of each other and appreciate what we have. We appreciate all that Father Kevin does for our school community, for his generosity of spirit and time in celebrating our school Masses. Thank you also to Mrs Forino for her contribution to the religious life of the school and to Mrs Olden, the Junior 5L staff and the pupils who had leading roles at Mass. It was, as always, lovely to be joined by parents, grandparents and parishioners.
Mrs Van Zyl led an online Parents Evening earlier this week which focussed on reading. Thank you to Mrs Van Zyl for her planning and preparation and we hope the session has proved to be helpful to those who attended. We will be adding more parent workshops to out training schedule over the course of the year as we feel this will greatly help the pupils, and their parents, on their educational journey.
Congratulations to this week’s Stars of the Week: Nursery – Kabir; Rec - Layla and Oliver; J1 - Rosie and Edward; J2 – Jacob and Autumn; J3 – Bevan and Saffie; J4 – Fiorella and Lily-Rose; J5 – Hugo and Alfie; J6 – Gwen and Diya. As always, I appreciate all the hard work invested by our children each day and it is a privilege to celebrate and acknowledge this whenever possible. Well, done to all our stars of the week!
We were treated to three wonderful musical performances at assembly today. Congratulations to Faryal and Casper on their beautiful singing and to Diya for her superb piano performance. I really enjoyed listening to all three pupils – well done to you!
Thank you very much to the staff members and parents who supported the PTA quiz last Friday. Special thanks also go to Mrs Maria Gordon and her band of helpers for organising a very enjoyable evening (the cheese boards were delicious) and to Sorcha Horan and Wendy Duigan for helping me with the running of the quiz part of the evening.
I hope that everyone is able to have a most relaxing and enjoyable weekend with friends and family.
God bless,
Rob Duigan
