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School is a place of learning, but that does not
mean our education is confined to the
classroom. We learn how to manage time,
negotiate, compromise, support and motivate.
These are all skills for life, and skills that we
have learnt only through our time at School.
We also learn how to relate to a wide range
of people of all different ages and build
connections with people within our wider
School community. Appeals Day is a wonderful
opportunity to meet volunteers from a local
charity and learn about how much they do to
help others, inspiring many of us to go out into
the world with the aim of making a difference.
When asked to describe our time at School,
we say that the feeling of being an individual
who has an equal role to everyone else in
the wider School community has been
instrumental in allowing each person’s growth
and development. The fact that it is possible to
get to know everyone in Senior School – if not
Prep School – is unique to our School and
something we have appreciated so much,
particularly when being asked to represent
the School, because we know the School, and
feel able to represent the students we know
so well.
In summary, although Sixth Form is a year of
wading through muddy waters and paddling
like fury throughout the clear stretches, it has
been great fun. As a year, we feel we’ve thrived
off the manic mayhem and are now reaching
the final straight as strong, independent, clear-
minded individuals. We have had to think for
ourselves and grow as people to cope with
the strong currents pulling us in all different
directions. But we can honestly say that the
School has made us the people we are now;
we don’t profess to be swans, but we certainly
are some powerful ducks.
By Abigail Jessop, Laurie Fisher and
the Upper Sixth Leavers
Sixth Form Ball, Friday 8th July 2016
Abigail Jessop (Head of School) and Laurie Fisher
(Deputy Head of School) 2015/16
A Message from the Head & Deputy Head of School 2015-16
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