Dear Parents
Some GCSEs and AS Level examinations have come and gone and left a number of our pupils quietly confident. More lies ahead for most of them.
Half-term and revision will, I am sure, be synonymous for our older ones. Labor vincit omnia. The Roman poet, Virgil, thought so two thousand years ago and so do we today.
It was very good to greet around 90 of the parents of all three sections of our school on the Terrace at the Abbey on Friday evening and we were richly entertained by the fabulous Prep School choir and by Rocky Bullin and later Sam Wills. I am most grateful to Keith Sellens and his wonderful FOBAS team for organising this very enjoyable occasion.
At the start of the new week it was good to see some of the same faces come along to the Year 6 Induction Day at the Abbey. If a measure of the success of the day was the incidences of giggling then it went down extremely well with our transferees.
It was a great privilege for the Battle Abbey School Choir to support the Battle Choral Society on Saturday night accompanied by a professional orchestra of 50 in front of an audience of 500 in Christchurch in St. Leonards. Our pupils were proud to take part in the delivery of Verdi’s Requiem – stirring, dramatic and uplifting.
In the second half of term we have the drama of exams, the drama of “Oh, What a Lovely War!” and “Les Mis”, the Lower 6th off for more university induction and personal statement training, much more sport and athletics, the Summer Ball and Speech Day to look forward to, among much else.
So now we have time to catch our breath and enjoy a short break. If any parents would like to see me, I will be in school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week and happy to meet with you. As Mrs. Jacoby, co-founder of our school, said in the first school magazine of 1928, “The Gateway is ever open to you.”
Yours Sincerely,
Roger Clark
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