Responsibility
Over the course of a year I particularly enjoy the opportunities given to me to meet pupils in Year 7, 8 and…
Gratitude – June 2023
As we approach the end of our centenary year it seems fitting that our character quality for June is gratitude. As a…
Environmental Awareness
I rarely stop and think about the environment, however I found myself contemplating it more than I would recently in an assembly…
Commitment
‘Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it was easy everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it…
Faith
Faith in our communities Over the course of the last few weeks, I have had the chance to sit down individually with…
Courage
Typically, when you ask a child to define courage, they will turn first to descriptions of acts of great bravery, often of…
Joy and Happiness
Joy is inexorably linked with Christmas. From the angels who brought ‘good tidings of great joy’ to the shepherds, and the wise…
Compassion
This week’s assembly in Pre-Prep and Nursery introduced our character quality for November: Compassion. We used the parable of the Good Samaritan…
Honesty
Social and emotional education forms a significant part of the ‘invisible ink’ of learning in schools. It is the sort of learning…
Respect for others
I recall as a teenager travelling to Moscow while the tanks were rolling into Vilnius to attempt to stop the breakaway of…