Staying
on TRaK (Tolerance, Respect & Kindness) continues to be our drive this term
with preparation for public examinations fully underway (the KS3 Trinity Exams
take place next week), and it is important that our students remain fully
engaged and focussed. The pace and intensity has been relentless since we got
back last week and has seen our students taking on the responsibility of public
exams in a mature and considered manner. I have been impressed with their work
ethic, independence of thought and positive attitude in and around school,
including the boarding houses, and I commend them for their sterling efforts.
No doubt nerves will be frayed and patience tried (and that’s just the
teachers!), but we are here to help and support our students during this tough
time. And I am sure they will do you and the school proud – everyone has the
ability and potential to succeed, so long as one has self-belief and determination,
which has been evident over the course of these past few months.
Opportunities
continue to abound at Sexey’s – from auditions for Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the
Shrew’ which have kept our budding actors occupied, our 6th form
film-makers being showcased at the world-renowned Hauser & Wirth, to the
Macmillan House charity fundraiser for ‘Rescued Dogs 4 Life’ last night –
plenty of opportunities for our students to grow and flourish. House
Rugby 7s took place all this week ably assisted and officiated by Old Sexeian
Ben Chapman and it was a hard fought competition with Glynn-Jones as overall
winners. Good camaraderie, sportsmanship and community. We are a special and
unique school and we are certainly on TRaK in many ways and I hope that our
students continue to value the first class education that they are receiving
here and achieve to their potential, both in and out of the academic arena.
Keeping on TRaK can be difficult at times, and some will invariably come off
it, but we are here to help them get back on TRaK and to hopefully stay on it.
You are very welcome to join us at St Mary’s, Bruton for the Schools’ Service
with Father Justin this Sunday morning and experience this sense of community -
it would be lovely to see you.
Speaking
of community, may I politely request that parents do not use the main school
entrance for morning drop-offs and afternoon pick-ups please? This practice is
making the area unsafe for our students and staff and is an accident waiting to
happen. The only place drop-offs and pick-ups should happen is the large
overflow car-park between the Lisbury and Macmillan sites and the Coombe
Garden. This rule does not apply to parents of boarding students in Coombe
House who may enter the main school site, but only at the start or end of the
three terms. Coombe parents should also use the overflow car park for dropping
off and picking up at all other times. Thank you for your continued cooperation
in this matter – let’s hope all of us can stay on TRaK, much like Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II who turned 90 yesterday.
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