Head's Newsletter 13 November 2015

GEOGRAPHY FIELD TRIP TO DORSET

As ever we managed to get every Year 12 student into the field, covering a number of activities including fording and measuring rivers, disturbing angry rutting deer, crossing bogs and mires and climbing Dartmoor tors!

65 Year 9 boys visited the Roman Baths in Bath last Thursday. The boys toured the Museum and had a lecture on the ancient town of Aqaue Sulis from an archaeologist which involved handling some genuine Roman artefacts. Despite the hours spent on the coach, the boys thoroughly enjoyed the day and benefitted enormously from the experience. My thanks go to the boys for their enthusiasm and patience, and to all the staff members who accompanied us on the day. Mrs C O’Connell, Head of Classics

Thanks must go to my colleagues Messrs Brittain and Langrish, for their patience and commitment to the joys of early starts and delivering twelve continuous days of teaching, also involving long drives and evening supervision. Abiding memories of the year, other than the laughter and fun that so many students found in learning so much geography, will be the need of students to eat colossal amounts of food at every opportunity and the joys of walking the moors in darkness to get some stunning night views! As always, I want to offer a big thanks to all the staff for their help and/or forbearance. The students could not do so well in the subject without their support to make the trips happen, and we appreciate that greatly. Mr M Horwood, Head of Geography