We have had quite a wide-ranging week here at Caldicott and it has been encouraging to see the boys tackle each day with the approach I described at the beginning of term assembly. Back then we talked about the importance of grasping opportunities: no excuses, no blame… make your life the best it can be. For some boys it has been the King’s Scholarship, Westminster Challenge, Winchester Election and Winchester Entrance and we are proud of each of them. The rigour of those exams is without question, so here’s something to occupy your bank holiday weekend, if it’s raining:
The source was a picture of Michaelangelo’s The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from The Garden of Eden, then several verses from Genesis 3. One of the questions that stood out was this: ‘A painting of a written story may offer both more and less than the original text.’ Discuss this idea with reference to the image and extract above, alongside any other appropriate examples.
Not so much a hard question, just maybe hard to answer really well! But it wasn’t exams for everyone and we were delighted to host Elevate again, who came in to teach more advanced study skills with 5th Form. We were also very grateful to Wellington College for allowing our 1st Form to go along to watch their production of Lionboy.
We have our Charity Fun Run later which will be an opportunity for boys to support Brain Tumour Research. My thanks go to the Charity Committee and Ma’am Duncan for organising this opportunity. Perhaps my favourite meeting of the week, however, has just happened. As you may know all boys contribute to our annual Pupil Survey and the results have been analysed. Ma’am Bisschop, Mr Di Maso and I then met with the school prefects to go through the results as we begin to form an action plan which, at its heart, reflects the opinions of those prefects. Pupil voice is incredibly important to us.
On a personal note, I would like to thank my colleagues and Caldicott parents for their support this week. Our community is a very good one and we care for one another – many of us are at an age where our own parents need a lot of care and support, which is draining as we juggle our complex lives. We must always remember that we each arrive at Caldicott every day with all sorts of pressures. My father was a clergyman for over fifty years, so he was ready, and he had not been himself for a long time.
The weather forecast is decidedly ropey, but I wish you well for the early May bank holiday. See you on Monday evening or Tuesday morning.
