Dear Parents
This has been a week with two very significant events, which will affect the future of the school.
Firstly there will be a very exciting announcement made at the end of next week about my successor. But we must all wait patiently!
Secondly, as you can read elsewhere, Battle Abbey School was selected as a leading centre for educational excellence in the use of digital technology to improve pupils’ learning. As one of only six schools nationwide, we will have access to and be part of digital educational resources and research in 19 other European countries. I cannot tell you quite how honoured I feel on behalf of the school that this immense achievement has been won by a small independent school. Dr Eric Demoncheaux has led this project, very ably abetted by Tony Payton, Phil Usher, John Norbury and Damian Baldry and a host of other staff. Eric has always kept an eye on the scientific and digital revolution which goes on in the big, wide world and in the world-wide web. Once again, I
commend our excellent staff to you. I feel privileged to work alongside so many very high calibre colleagues.
The Abbot’s Hall is, in so many ways, the epicentre of the school and this beautiful building reverted briefly to its spiritual origins as we celebrated Evensong last Sunday with the whole boarding community, the full choir and some fifty parents. This room - and the services we hold in it - will always be one of my abiding memories of life at school. The Hall is warm, welcoming and the echoes of its past reverberate around it, if you stop and are still enough to listen and hear. With the Christmas tree in place, it has a very special atmosphere every year and we look forward to “Carols round the Fire”, which has long been a favourite evening for many generations of pupils, staff, parents and governors and is very often their first Christmas event. I hope parents will want to join us on Tuesday 4th December at 7pm. It was the first event that I attended after I had been appointed to the Headship of the school some 15 years ago and it is an evening which is very special for me and for many others. You are all welcome.
With my best wishes
Roger Clark
Friday, 23 November 2012
Friday, 16 November 2012
16th November 2012 - Message from the Headmaster
Dear Parents
Evensong on Sunday 6pm – it is advertised separately but please do come along, if you would like to.
Scholars’ Concert – the very best of Battle Abbey School music was on display this Tuesday. Twenty of our finest musicians played, sang and entertained us. One guest thought that there could be very few schools in the South East of England who could match the depth of talent. This statement is probably impossible to prove but I, for one, was bursting with pride, as I often am, because of the achievements of our pupils and teachers.
Sixth Form Open Evening – there was a very good turn out and a larger than usual number of visitors from outside of the school. We talked, among much else, of the possibility of starting new A Level subjects. At the moment, out of Politics, Philosophy and Photography, the latter two seem the most popular. I also informed students and parents that a significant upgrade to the Sixth Form area would take place in time for September. However, above all, I talked about the excitement of study at this level and the sea change that our pupils encounter after GCSE. The Sixth Form experience at BAS is very special – the icing on the cake for our pupils and staff!
FOBAS Quiz Night – a sell-out! Former parent and quizmaster of longstanding, Alan Covall, will again remind all those present of the two disastrous years when the Headmaster joined a hapless and unsuspecting team and how the Headmaster had to come and receive the wooden spoon on behalf of the team. For many years I have hidden shamefaced behind the bar on the night of the quiz not daring to attach myself and my unenviable reputation to any group but tonight I’m making a come-back. I think that my team is called the “Likely Losers”.
“The Boyfriend” – this term’s senior musical. You will have seen the advertisements. Do come along and enjoy some high quality, live theatre.
Best wishes
Roger Clark
Evensong on Sunday 6pm – it is advertised separately but please do come along, if you would like to.
Scholars’ Concert – the very best of Battle Abbey School music was on display this Tuesday. Twenty of our finest musicians played, sang and entertained us. One guest thought that there could be very few schools in the South East of England who could match the depth of talent. This statement is probably impossible to prove but I, for one, was bursting with pride, as I often am, because of the achievements of our pupils and teachers.
Sixth Form Open Evening – there was a very good turn out and a larger than usual number of visitors from outside of the school. We talked, among much else, of the possibility of starting new A Level subjects. At the moment, out of Politics, Philosophy and Photography, the latter two seem the most popular. I also informed students and parents that a significant upgrade to the Sixth Form area would take place in time for September. However, above all, I talked about the excitement of study at this level and the sea change that our pupils encounter after GCSE. The Sixth Form experience at BAS is very special – the icing on the cake for our pupils and staff!
FOBAS Quiz Night – a sell-out! Former parent and quizmaster of longstanding, Alan Covall, will again remind all those present of the two disastrous years when the Headmaster joined a hapless and unsuspecting team and how the Headmaster had to come and receive the wooden spoon on behalf of the team. For many years I have hidden shamefaced behind the bar on the night of the quiz not daring to attach myself and my unenviable reputation to any group but tonight I’m making a come-back. I think that my team is called the “Likely Losers”.
“The Boyfriend” – this term’s senior musical. You will have seen the advertisements. Do come along and enjoy some high quality, live theatre.
Best wishes
Roger Clark
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