Dear Parents
As we speed into the final week of term, Spring is upon us. Daffodils line the drive, a pair of peregrines are noisy from the Chapel roof and Lancing is looking at its most beautiful. It feels very privileged to work here.
This, of course, to do with people and the opportunities abounding for our pupils, as well as the beauty of the site. In the past week or so we have seen two tremendous Head Master’s Lectures (by Dominic Sandbrook of The Rest is History fame and Andy Whitehouse (OL) who has worked at the heart of politics in the UK and the US); we have enjoyed a terrific production of Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet comedyTwelfth Night, featuring actors spanning all year groups and we look towards the fiercely fought final of the House Debating competition on the final evening of this term. There have been amazing charitable endeavours, including the Brighton Half Marathon which saw notable participation from pupils and staff. A Lancing team has reached the final stage of the national Cansat competition and we have had excellent news regarding Upper Sixth applicants to medical schools and to music colleges and conservatories. The House Music Competition saw hundreds of entries and a finals concert that delivered stellar performances and last week saw performances of Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir and Vivaldi’s The Lark Ascending, and a calibre of musicianship rare indeed in a school setting. The Equestrian Centre has hosted horseball, our dancers have wowed at a Cabaret evening, performing numbers from a range of musicals and the pupils in the Farm Project have been helping with Lambing. All this has run alongside the academic endeavours of pupils and staff and the day to day rhythms of a busy school.
After a term of high energy and high ambition, the break beckons. I wish you and your families a very happy Easter and look forward to the excitements of the Summer Term ahead.
Best wishes,
Mrs Hilary Dugdale
Director of Admissions
