With our sixth form open evening and year twelve taster day on Thursday, it was really good to be able to look to future plans for our students. The year eleven students were wonderful, sampling A level courses and college opportunities as well as considering options for the future. Our evening sess...

With another week back, routines are becoming established and I continue to be pleased with how all of our staff and students have adapted.

It has been a very emotional week! First, greeting our staff for training days after the bank holiday and then on Thursday and Friday bringing four year groups back into school.

Events continue to move quickly and we are very keen to ensure that parents and students have as much information as possible before we reach the end of term so that the summer break can start with confidence for all about next year.

Our hopes to be able to move back towards normal school life were confirmed by the government announcement this week. Whilst we had a number of scenarios in place, there were some details that we need to address over the coming weeks, but it will mean that our staff, students and p...