Headmaster's Blog

This week I have spoken to the current Year 7s, who now have the chance to apply for a position of service and responsibility for the remainder of the summer...

Dear Parent It has been a real pleasure to get back to School this last week-and-a-bit: the children all seem to be on very top form and enjoying the different...

Dear Parent Last Friday's poetry competition was a wonderful way in which to round off the week, with a full house in the Tom Penny Theatre and an atmosphere of...

Dear Parent It was a real delight to watch the Years 6 and 7 pupils in ‘The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents’. I had the privilege of being able...

Dear ParentIt has been a nice return to normality this week, getting through Monday to Friday without a snowflake in sight. It was a real shame that Westville House were...

Dear Parent In a week where I thought I might be suffering from Winter Olympics withdrawal syndrome, we have had plenty of our own snow sports to get involved with,...

Year 8s will have slept well last night, having put their all into scholarship and mock exams this week. For those that have been based at Sedbergh, I have already...

As temperatures dropped here this week and we finally saw proper snow in School, the alternative winter sports programme began at break time to great excitement. It seems fitting, therefore,...

How are you all getting on with your New Year's resolutions? I must admit to mixed success, with caffeine intake only sporadically under control and late night emails creeping back...

It has been a tricky week for weather and it was a shame that we had to cancel so many fixtures on Wednesday, though I am pleased that it didn't stop...

The crescendo to Christmas has been well and truly upon us over the last seven days - the Christmas Fayre, community carols at the Holy Trinity Church and the Fairbank...

Although I have been away for some of the week, it was wonderful to return to a school that is feeling distinctly Christmassy and I am excited about my first...