Newsletters
Read below a sample of our 2025 April Term school newsletters:
Spirit of the Banda – Week 01
Welcome back to a new term! As ever, there’s a full, varied and exciting calendar of events for all the pupils this term, in addition to the hard work going on daily in the classrooms. Our cross-country runners have already taken part in the Kenton warm-up race, ahead of the IAPS event at Turi in a couple of weeks and we look forward to hosting The Banda Vocal Festival here tomorrow.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 02
It was absolutely brilliant to be able to celebrate our Catering Team in this morning’s assembly. As with all our support staff, they keep the school ticking on a daily basis and a good many of them have devoted years of their life to the school – indeed, four of the team have been here for more than fifteen years and a further three of them for over thirty years! It was great for all of us to learn more about what each of them do individually.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 03
We’ve been promoting sustainability at school this week, with a plethora of events taking place across the school. Of course, we need to be pushing our efforts on this front the whole time, not just during a focus week, but we actually do an incredible amount already, including the extensive use of solar energy, waste water harvesting, recycling of food waste and e-waste, and composting and tree planting, to name but a few things, as well as the tremendous work done by our Planet Warriors team. There is always more that we can do and we’ll continue to look at ways to do this, alongside sharing these initiatives with the school community.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 07
Huge congratulations to our Year 8 pupils who have been sitting their Common Entrance exams this week. They’ve worked incredibly hard throughout the course of the year and we very much look forward to receiving their results next week. They now embark on their Leavers’ Programme, beginning with a trip to Sagana next week, as their time with us draws to a close.
As a year group, they’ve achieved considerable success over the past three terms and it’s great to be able to celebrate a further award with the news that Inaya Macharia has gained a Sports Scholarship to St Christopher’s.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 08
Tomorrow marks one of the highlights of our sporting calendar as we look forward to hosting the IAPS Under 13 and Under 11 Netball Tournaments. It will be a busy morning with 320 girls from ten schools playing over seventy games of netball.
We are also welcoming a number of senior schools from Kenya (Braeburn, Braeburn Garden Estate, Brookhouse, Durham, Hillcrest, Peponi and St Andrew’s Turi), the UK (Cheltenham, Cheltenham Ladies’, Monkton Combe, Repton and Uppingham) and South Africa (DSG and St Andrew’s) to our Secondary Schools Exhibition Fair, which will run alongside the tournament.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 09
Last Saturday saw The Banda community out in full force as we hosted the IAPS Netball Tournament, alongside our inaugural Secondary Schools Fair. There was a tremendous atmosphere around the courts as we were treated to a feast of excellent netball. My thanks to everyone involved in making the day the huge success that it was.
If you are seeking further advice on senior school options, please do make an appointment via the School Office to come in for a chat. A clear timeline on the whole process will be sent out to parents in the near future.
Spirit of the Banda – Week 10
The sporting year was rounded off in fine fashion last Saturday at the Ndume Sevens Tournament by our Under 11 boys’ team who stormed to victory for the third successive year. They played some fantastic rugby and did so whilst displaying great sportsmanship; it was a fine all-round effort from the entire squad, as well as those boys who had been part of the bigger 12-a-side team during the term.
We are looking forward to next week’s performances of The Addams Family. It promises to be a busy but exciting end to the school year.