Dear Parents
Harvest Festival was the theme in Evensong as the boarders, some very welcome parents and the Chamber Choir assembled in the Abbott’s Hall on Sunday evening. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosomed friend of the late maturing sun, conspiring with him how to load and bless with fruit the vines that round the thatch eves run" - I studied Keats at A Level (and can still remember!) and, by chance, it was national poetry day last Thursday. So we had our very own Ode to Autumn, led by Rev Bentham - Ben to his friends - and the husband of our present Head of English. Ben talked about the opportunity to store up our harvest in heaven and not on earth. Good deeds now and kind acts and respect for our fellow man - a great theme which reflects many of my Monday assemblies. Some visiting parents asked me the other day what the school was all about and I mentioned high academic standards, creativity and "love" - the love for your fellow man, which I hope will send many of our pupils out into the world determined to make it a better place. What a great ambition that is! But why not? It is today’s young people, who will be pushing us around in our bath chairs and suing for peace or saving the planet.
Before the winter arrives, we have two weeks of half-term to look forward to and then some exciting drama - the surreal drama of ISI inspection and the real drama of the second half of term, full of hundreds and thousands of human interactions and moments of learning, enrichment and hope.
Warmest wishes
Roger Clark
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