Going for gold every day!
It is with much anticipation that I welcome you back for
this Spring term. I hope that you have
had a restful festive break. We are looking forward to adding to our
collective achievements in this Olympic year.
The first term was quite remarkable for making history and
launching this much needed school in west London. The end of term Winter Fayre
was a wonderful celebration of the talents and creative endeavours of our year
7 students. This showcase really highlighted
the wonderful collegial attitude of our students and staff. It was a really fun way to end the year with
art showcases, singing, dancing and drama sketches written and performed by the
students.
The crowning event for the term was the naming of the
academy houses. Sixteen different
presentations were made by the tutor groups with four major names selected by
the sponsors. The chair of governors,
Tom Ilube, on behalf of the sponsors pitched each idea to the whole student
body who then voted for their preferred choice.
I can now reveal that the new house names are:
Green House Gates House
Yellow house Lovelace House
Red House Berners-Lee House
Blue House Tesla House
Our focus for this term is very much on maintaining and expanding
the excellent ethos created last year and pushing up the standards even more
over the coming months. We will be
entering a busy period of staff recruitment and thus continue to build and
develop our teams to provide an inspirational educational experience.
Students will be launching immediately into module 4 and the
6th formers will be sitting their first formal modular exams
throughout January. We wish them good
luck and look forward to receiving their results.
As we approach the coming months we will see more daylight
as the days lengthen but please can parents ensure that their children have
appropriate winter coats and footwear for the conditions (please see dress code
on our website).
Our first Talent Month competition will be held throughout
January. It will culminate with a formal
contest, where the top acts identified and selected from dancing to art, comedy
to juggling and many others, go head-to-head to become the winner of HA’s Got Talent 2012. All talents are given the chance to shine. I
am sure we will also see some staff entries!
I look forward to sharing more throughout 2012.
