April 22nd 2016
Along with reporting on a great start to the new term, I am delighted to welcome you to our new look ‘Weekly Round-up’. This has been developed to work in tandem with the new website, and should allow you to keep more fully abreast of your son’s activities at school, as well as encouraging you to engage with all of the news and stories that we now publish online. We would welcome any feedback so that we can produce a weekly update that you find helpful, informative and interesting.
We are also producing a new ‘Week Ahead’, which is a re-vamp of my previous weekly email. Again, we hope this provides improved communications, and would welcome comments and ideas for both new publications. Both will be sent out on Fridays, but separately so you can review and plan accordingly.
Our glimpse of Summer on Wednesday and Thursday has been brought to an abrupt end. Sadly the touring cricketers in Somerset are being limited to indoor pairs in the Taunton Prep sports hall this afternoon. We hope that tomorrow will bring drier weather at All Hallows, near Shepton Mallett, but I’m sure the high spirits of our tourers will not be dampened by rain! The Jazz workshop at the Oratory today, in which ten senior musicians are participating, should not suffer the same fate.
Apart from today’s rain, we’ve had a fabulous start to term. In only three days, both boys and staff are back into the routine, and House Points have been pouring through my door. I think the first arrived on my desk by 10.42am on Day One! The kitchen staff dressed up for the Queen’s birthday yesterday, with fish and chips putting everyone in a good mood.
I have been very impressed by the efforts of many boys during the holidays in both individual endeavours for fundraising, and sporting triumphs. We are always delighted to hail successes of our pupils for efforts outside of school, and you will see some reports below. Please do send in details as and when they arise: they will always be published on our website, and when we have space we will include them in the Weekly Round-up.
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