Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, As I write to you, we are hours away from a well-earned break after a busy half term. No matter how much planning and preparation we do before September, it always seems to be an almost frantic time. A couple of the school’s governors visited yesterday and commented on…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well. The shorter days and longer nights are starting upon us now in Kent; it won’t be long until the students are going to breakfast in the dark; all part of the great British experience. Many secondary schools in the UK have their students…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, To both new and older members of the community, I send my best wishes. I will be writing to you regularly with thoughts and updates from the Earlscliffe community. This is my first letter of this academic year. I had the pleasure of spending the better part of the…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, For as long as I have been reading newspapers, there have been different newspapers for different audiences. The most striking distinction in the UK is between the tabloid and broadsheet styles of paper. The terms tabloid and broadsheet refer to (now defunct) distinctions in the size of the sheets…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well. Here in Kent, we are looking forward to a weekend at a slightly different pace, as Monday is what is known in the UK as a Bank Holiday. It means a national holiday, and there will be no lessons on that day. With…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well as we lead into the Christmas season. You may know that Christmas is the only time of the year when we ever close the school to students. For half terms and the Easter and Summer holidays, we remain open for students who wish…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, Today is Armistice Day in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth, USA and France. The date marks the end of hostilities in World War One, and it is just over 100 years since the end of that war. A war where Napoleonic tactics of ranks of soldiers moving in unison met…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, As I write, some of our students are navigating their way around the Kent countryside on the expedition part of their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award. I hope you have heard about the award scheme. It is an internationally recognised project, started by the late Duke of Edinburgh, founded…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, To both new and older members of the community, I send my best wishes. I will be writing to you regularly with thoughts and updates from the Earlscliffe community. This is my first letter of this academic year. It is too easy to say that a particular day is…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe Community, I hope this finds you well. It is a beautiful spring day here in Folkestone. Whatever the weather is like where you are, I hope you are enjoying your day. I have been away for a couple of days this week at the Boarding Schools Association Head Teachers’ Conference…