Goodbye to the pioneers…
20th June
This Friday, 24 June, our wonderful Year 13 boys and girls will be in school en masse for the last time as they drop off books and materials, join together for a celebratory assembly and then tip out in a colourful heap on the lawn of No11 The Close for a farewell barbeque and a group photo. They have been brilliant throughout; whether the school has been in full session or not has not mattered. They have worked, played, supported one another and together have helped to build a new era for the school as Covid has ebbed gradually away. They were a collective first in so many ways. At 170, the biggest year group to join the school. The first coeducational cohort with the first Bishop’s Girls for over nine decades. The first senior students to go through the pandemic, through lockdowns and massed testing. The first students to assist in large numbers at community vaccination centres. The first to take A levels without taking GCSEs. The first to take A level Psychology at BWS. The list is a long and very impressive one.
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