The Courier

Dear Parents

It is certainly feeling more and more like Christmas in the last few days here. As I walked around the school on Thursday afternoon the sounds of Carol Service recordings and Nativity rehearsals seemed to be coming out of every doorway. We have the recordings of the plays taking place next week before they are sent out to parents before the end of term. The Carol Service will need some editing and continuity work and should be with children and parents by the final week of term. I do hope you enjoy these productions when they come out to you, the children have had great fun putting them together.

On a similar theme, I hope you get a chance to view the open corridors Vimeo that will be coming out to you this weekend. This is a lovely way to mark the children’s work and a great representation of the all the fun of the Christmas Art Day (glitter free this year). We have had to postpone today’s Advent Service on the playground with the forecast of sleet and snow, but the hope is we can get this in on Tuesday of next week.

This week we have all heard the encouraging news regarding the Covid vaccine and we can start to imagine better days ahead in the not too distant future. When we do get the green light, one of the things we would love to do is get parents in for concerts and performances. I know full well just how much these mean to parents. For now, we are very conscious of the need to keep our guard up for a while longer yet, particularly over the Christmas holiday period and the potentially risky period following that when we return to work in the new year. My own daughter is about to return from her first term at university and is hoping to get a test a few days before she travels. Fingers are crossed that she can and that it is negative and we can spend the holiday together as a family.

Have a great weekend.

Joe Thackway
Headmaster