I am grateful to the History Department for taking the year-group to Arundel last Friday, where they represented the School brilliantly. This week, each class of Year 7s missed a lesson during the day to learn the rhythms of Samba. They then demonstrated their new-found skills in front of their parents, before the Year 7 Parent-Tutor evening. It was great, and I am sure that they all enjoyed it. Tomorrow, at Open Day, the Year 7s will also be touring prospective families, and they are looking forward to being proud ambassadors of the School. Well done! As a school, we have marked this week’s European Day of Languages in a variety of ways: there was a highly successful bake-sale on Tuesday, along with a linguistic quiz, and Mr Sampieri also led a thought-provoking Chapel. It was a pleasure to hear four students speaking in their native languages, as well as sharing their experiences and passion for languages.

I understand that the Year 11 Geographers had a very successful trip to Calshot, to cover the practical events of their GCSE course – thank you to  Mr Carter, and all of his colleagues who accompanied the trip.