Wellbeing Matters

Year 11 Leadership Day

This week we held the Year 11 Leadership Day, which we haven’t done face to face for a little while! It was a great day of active learning and the boys were challenged to think about who they are, what their impact is on others and how leaders work for the good of an organisation.

After some formal presentations from Rev Benn and Dr John Collier, our distinguished guest, the magnificent Ms Shirley Chowdhary, spoke to the boys about her leadership journey and provided the boys with excellent life lessons on leadership. Ms Chowdhary spoke of the power of empathy and listening to others, as everyone you speak with is a learning experience. She focused on the future of leadership in terms of diversity and how surrounding yourself with people most unlike you was important in leading strong innovative organisations. Ms Chowdhary’s messages about the need for resilience, especially in the face of disappointment were both personal and powerful for the boys to hear. The last and most important lesson for the boys was that they were ‘enough’. Life has its ups and downs, there are successes and failures, but in all of this flurry we call life – we are ‘enough’.

Burn Bright then led the rest of the day with their dynamic group work activities and powerful messages about the need to live and work as a team. Year 11 were engaged in a very moving and powerful activity called ‘walk the line’. These group activities focused on their vulnerabilities as young men, emphasising the need to walk together in life in the next 12 months, own their mistakes, step up as servants to each other and work through conflict and raise the bar on their character.

Ms Rowena Dudgeon
Deputy Head Pastoral Care

You’ve Got This

Year 12 started their Trial Examinations today – we gave them a little encouragement this morning, with each boy receiving some whole school support in the form of a chocolate freckle! We wish the boys well, they have worked so hard and we are proud of this amazing year group.