Hi everyone,
I
hope you are all happy and well. Last week was another amazing week at St.
James’, thank you to all of my students for all their hard work and effort, not
only for last week but also over the first eight weeks of this academic year.
It has been an incredibly busy period for everyone at our school. There is no
doubt in my mind that my students, as well as our school community, as well as
school communities everywhere deserve a well-earned break. All of my students
have been so outstanding throughout this period, each of them has shown an
exemplary attitude to learning and it has been obvious and incredibly enjoyable
to witness how much each of them has learnt. More importantly to me personally,
it has been incredibly rewarding to see how each of my students has supported
their friends, peers and classmates when they have been called upon to do so.
Classroom
21 has developed and nurtured an ethos whereby students do not see themselves
as individuals in competition with one another, instead we work as one, to help
and support each other in our learning. This ethos does not only relate to
students within a year group but we have developed our own unique way of integrating
learning of students from different year groups together, in the single goal
and pursuit of learning and the achievements that learning brings. We are very
much looking forward to sharing this unique learning environment with you.
My form
has also been an absolute joy to tutor. It was so cool to see them at the
annual St. James’ Year 7 disco; they were all so happy and full of the joys of
being 11 and 12 years old. I had the opportunity to speak to and learn the
names of some students who I had yet to even speak to, which was very uplifting.
It always makes me wonder why this is? Why is it that there can be students
within a school who because you do not teach, you have very little if any
contact with? Even to the extent you do not know their names. It does not make
any sense to me, as they are all as important as each other. Anyway, the disco
brought the first half term to an incredibly fun and happy conclusion. Thank
you Year 7.
Last
week, as a group, we were so happy to be able to introduce Jaida and Tom, our
Deputy Head Boy and Girl and Sean and Ciara, our Head Boy and Girl. I would
like to take this opportunity to say how proud we are, not only of these four
students (as we did that last week) but also of the Year 11 students at St.
James’ who also applied for the position of Head Boy and Girl. The competition
was absolutely unbelievable and I did not envy the job of selecting the final
positions one tiny little bit. I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you
who applied for the position. Many of you are now prefects at St. James’.
Without you fulfilling your roles to the outstanding degree to which you currently
are the younger students at St. James’ would not have role models who they can
look up to. It is quite difficult to think how difficult working at our school
would be without you as the outstanding role models you continue to be to our
younger students.
At
the current rate, it appears tomorrow we will reach our first milestone on
social media, 1,000 Facebook likes. Thank you so much for the support that you
have shown Classroom 21. Coincidently it is also my birthday. What an
incredible gift. I would like to dedicate this milestone to my students who I
know have been absolutely inspired by this process so far. I know that each of
them is now more aware of what they are capable of if they think and imagine
big and are never afraid to try something different. Everyone who has liked the
page has helped to inspire so thank you all so much. I have more to say on the
next milestone, which is going to take things to another level entirely, I am
going to leave that until the 1,000 likes has actually been reached as there is
still the possibility it may not. I am quite curious to see who will be like
number 1,000 as some of my students are I am sure. One of them may indeed be
that very person…
Sir.
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