My blog last week was written from my National Association of Headteachers conference in London. At the time of publishing, there was still one day to go which saw the new Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, come and […]
What an interesting week it has been. I am writing the opening paragraphs of this week’s blog from my room at the Westminster Plaza hotel overlooking the Houses of Parliament as I come to the end of the first day […]
I started last week’s blog talking about the great work our Friends’ Association does and the wonderful contribution to the school coffers made as a result of the events over the last year. What I didn’t share with you, however, […]
I have to start this week’s blog as far back as last Friday when the Friends’ Association hosted a joint schools’ community event at Whitehill. We were blessed with wonderful weather which meant we could make use of the space […]
This week saw the pupils move from the ‘soft start’ approach of the academic year to more traditional curriculum delivery as the teachers began to introduce the pupils to the topics they will be covering this term. Even after only […]
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, […]