We have reached the end of our first ‘full’ week of the year and also the end of our planned ‘soft start’. These first few days each year are not filled with traditional lessons as such but are timetabled to […]
Welcome to the first blog of this new academic year. For those of you who are new to Whitehill this term, this weekly blog will give you news and updates related to the most recent week in school, as well […]
Although this is the first paragraph of the blog, it has been the last one written. I didn’t want to tempt fate by writing about getting to the end of the year without any of our bubbles popping until the […]
We have reached the end of the penultimate week of another extraordinary year. We are so close now to the summer break; let’s hope we will make it ‘intact’. It has been an amazing week, with so much success and […]
We are down to single figures now in terms of how many days are left in his academic year. That being said, there is still so much more we need to do and also, looking across the school this week, […]
The focus across the week for our pupils has been ‘all things Shakespeare’. Every other year we have a Shakespeare themed week where we make the Bard’s plays the focus for the pupils’ work, not just in our English lessons […]
This time of the year is traditionally exceptionally busy in school, not only for pupils and teachers but also for me and the leadership team, as we round off this year and begin setting up the next academic year. Given […]
After all the excitement of the week leading up to half term with our residential visits and activities around the school, I can imagine many pupils used half term to relax and recharge. I know the staff did, even if […]
What an amazing week! It has been an incredible five days and therefore really hard work to keep up with all the photos and tweets from across the three school residentials as well as the active learning happening in Year […]
It’s been a really productive and exceptionally positive week in school and rightly so. Before I reflect on this, last Friday evening, I joined Miss Gooderham and two girls’ football teams at Wilshere Dacre for the second of three fun […]