I trust
you all enjoyed the extended exeat last weekend. Our equestrian team were
competing on the Sunday at the Team and Individual Show Jumping event organised
by the South & West Wilts Pony Club and Gretel White (won her class – well
done!), Jess Brewer, Iris Anderson, Daniel Meir and Niamh O’Keeffe performed
admirably and we are very proud of the team and of their efforts. This Sunday
afternoon Niamh O’Keeffe and Georgia Silcox are competing at the Seavington
Show Jumping Competition at King’s Sedgemoor – we wish them both all the best.
And thank you to all parents who attended the Q&A last Friday on the recent
Ofsted Boarding inspection – I hope you were reassured by our plans to move
forward and also had a chance to read our new Boarding Newsletter, keeping you
up to date with what’s going on in and around our boarding houses.
Earlier
this week I opened my mail in my study and I was surprised to find a Christmas
Card in November! Firstly, I was surprised at the efficiency of the sender and
secondly, it alerted me to the fact that we are just four Fridays away from
Christmas. Is it me, or does Christmas seem to be arriving earlier every year?
The John Lewis ad (apparently this signals the start of Christmas), the
annual battle of the supermarkets, Black Friday, the Sunday supplements
teaching you ‘How to cook the perfect Turkey’ and Christmas trees popping up
around the School and in the Boarding Houses. So we are officially in the
festive season and this week we have seen a veritable feast of opportunities,
which have included County Cross Country Trials at King's School, Bruton,
sporting fixtures against All Hallows' and The Blue School, Hockey Area Finals,
indoor athletics, the Y7s, 8s, and 9s were treated to a performance of Charles
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ by The Quantum Theatre Company from London, PSHE
talks to Yrs 10 and 11, Oxbridge interview preparation, code breaking, cake
sales in aid of charity and ‘The Great British Brain Bake Off’ (a Psychology
Department Production!) which involved a lot of baking, eating and thinking.
Food for thought. And alongside all of this, our very own Christmas
preparations are underway; I noticed the Christmas decorations coming out of
the school attic, the boarders putting up Christmas trees in their boarding houses;
preparations are underway for the Christmas Concert next Wednesday – do come
along and join in the yuletide festivities; the annual Cross Country event next
Friday, Christmas Lunch in the KDR, 6th Form Christmas Jumper Charity Day, the
Christmas Shopping Evening on Bruton High Street, Feast Night in the Boarding
Houses and of course, the Christmas Carol Service on the last day of term at St
Mary’s, Bruton. This will round off the term and put everyone in the Christmas
spirit, though some may already be spreading the Christmas cheer at School…
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