Newsletters

Read below a sample of our 2025 January Term school newsletters:

Spirit of the Banda – Week 01

Happy New Year! As I shared with the pupils during assembly on Tuesday and the Maths Department have been focusing during the week, 2025 is a ‘perfect’ year as it is a square number: 452. Of course, it’s very much the time of year for resolutions, but research shows that nearly 90% of them are broken within two weeks.

I also spoke to the pupils about our new Effort Grades system where the emphasis is very much on each child giving their best effort to all that they do during the school day. Achievements will naturally flow from this so it is perhaps putting one’s all into everything that should be central to any goal-setting for the year ahead.