Resilience and perspective are two words that come to mind for me this week. Whilst the swift and sudden lockdown came out of the blue for us all; I was thankful for the hours that our teachers had spent over the past twelve months working towards this possibility.

Over the past week, Year 1 and 2 have taken the opportunity to visit our valuable resources in the city to learn.

The Year 3 girls are buddying up with Ms Campbell's older citizens computer science class this term. The girls prepared an introductory letter about themselves and a watercolour of a vase of flowers for their buddy.

Year 5 have continued with their current inquiry topic, “Jean Batten”, by creating paper planes and measuring their distance.

Our Year 5 and 6 Basketball team played in the Canterbury Primary Schools Basketball Tournament on Monday 16th August, against some of the best girls’ teams in Canterbury.

The Junior and Middle schools have decided to support the charity Wig Day Wednesday. On Wednesday, 25 August, we ask that girls wear either a wig or a wacky hairdo to support those children with cancer.

An updated version of this will be sent out by Monday once we know the government’s announcement.