Message from Admissions December 2025
Dear Parents and Guardians,
With the last notes of the final Carol Service still echoing, I join the Choir in wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
The term has ended here in fine style and on festive form. The Choir has sung for three magnificent Carol Services in a numinous candle-lit Chapel. The final assembly of term reflected a veritable feast of achievements, from the academic, to intellectual feats via the ‘1% club’, to creative writing, music, drama and sporting triumphs.
Recent weeks have seen a group of intrepid Sixth Formers and staff trekking in Nepal and engaging with local charities through Global Action. Closer to home, Christmas gift bags being put together by students and gifted to young carers and to the elderly. In the final week of term a Christmas jumper/tie/sock day raised money for Crisis at Christmas and Seasonal Readings, in a candlelit crypt, was in aid of the charities we support in Malawi.
Our young musicians and thespians have shone in a glittering production of Guys and Dolls and in an Advent Concert featuring over 90 pupils across a range of ensembles – and premiering an orchestral composition by one of our Upper Sixth.
Our football and hockey teams have enjoyed an exceptional run of success this term; and Med Soc and our careers provision goes from strength to strength. All of this is detailed in the articles below.
Finally, do take a look at the advice from our safeguarding team on doom-scrolling, and how to help young people combat this and the anxiety it can provoke.
Our pupils have headed for home tired after this longest of terms; replete with Christmas feasting and friendship and looking forward to the holidays ahead. I am sure your children are at that same point of tiredness and anticipation. I wish you, and them, a very happy Christmas, the joys of the season and an excellent 2026.
With best wishes
Hilary Dugdale
Director of Admissions