The Courier

Dear Parents

We welcomed Kieran McCullough from Princethorpe College to our assembly on Tuesday and he gave us a great message related to our school promise for the week of being honest and truthful. Kieran talked about the importance of Lent in the Christian calendar and how we use it to reflect on our achievements and shortfalls in the year gone by. The children always enjoy having a new face in assembly and Mr McCullough’s assemblies are always particularly entertaining with a good message.

I managed to get over to the national hockey finals on Wednesday at Rugby School and unfortunately it was a different story this time to my last visit for the regional finals. The boys gave everything they had but came up against bigger and better opposition on the day. In many ways the challenge of dealing with setbacks like these is just as valuable as the joy and excitement they experienced when they qualified. It was great to see that they battled on regardless of the results although inevitably there were tears of disappointment at the end. Boys, you had a great run and we are all very proud of you.

We have two important dates coming up next week that I would like to flag up for you in advance. Firstly, on Tuesday Mark Groome is coming to speak to parents about the importance of managing stress for children. He will be speaking in the hall to all parents at 4.00pm and then again at 7.00pm to Year 4 and 5 parents who are coming along to the Transition Information Evening. I do hope you get the chance to hear Mark on at least one of these occasions. Then, on Saturday we have our annual Open Morning featuring a performance by the Pre-Prep children of their play called ‘Hats Off’ as well as various sporting, musical and academic activities across the school. This promises to be a fun-packed morning and I do hope you are able to come along on the day and support the school.

I hope you all have a great weekend. There will be a team of us over at Princethorpe College on Sunday for their open afternoon and I hope to see some of you there for that.

Best Wishes

Joe Thackway

For a two or three week period this year we will be focusing on one of the sayings in the School Promise. We will talk about this in assembly and in form period. It would be great if you could discuss this with your children at home and support the messages we are emphasising in school.

From now until the end of term we will be looking at a very important idea from the Good Citizens section of the Promise:

‘We are honest and tell the truth’