Blog Archive

• Whole School Assembly

• Voices from the past – VE Day 8 May 2025

• HM Assembly: Bishops of Salisbury

• Pilgrims and Journeys

• The Education Partnership
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• Spring Pilgrimage
• An unexpected return…

• Reading for HM Assembly Friday 12 July 2024

• Year 10 St Osmund's Church Assembly 28/6/2024 - Elias of Dereham
• The pendulum of time...
• The year of democracy

• A new Mayor of Melchester...?
• Year 11 Leavers HM Address
• Year 13 HM Leavers Address 8 May 2024
• Year 10 Assembly at St Osmund's Church 3/5/2024 - Hidden Depths

• HM Speech for Founder's day 26 April 2024
• Seventieth anniversary of 'Lord of the Flies'

• A thousand wishes...
• Reading for Year 7-11 Assembly 6/3/2024 - Roads

• George Herbert - Love III
• A time to draw breath
• It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen

• Lessons from a scandal

• Reading for Year 7-11 Assembly
• Chaplains Christmas Blog
• Taking the temperature…

• Henry Fawcett
• The First Folio is Four Hundred!

• A view from the tops.....
• Inspiration of the Spire…
• Letter from Stratford-Upon-Avon…

• Augustus Pugin – Year 10 assembly at St Osmund’s Church
• HM Speech for Prize Giving 2023
• And autumn returns once more...
• Start of Year Newsletter

• End of Year Newsletter

• Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me…
• Farley Music
• A chance encounter with Ralph Whitlock…

• Goodbye to Year 13
• Vivat Rex!
• Year 11 Final Cathedral Reflection for 2022-2023

• A retrospective glance as the clocks leap forward…
• Changing of the Guard…
• Reading for BWS Cathedral Service
• The spiral of life…deoxyribonucleic acid is 70!

• Such a dangerous day…World Book Day 2 March 2023
• Tragedy in Turkey and Syria
• Let's Connect......

• School’s not working…
• At last truth can be told…
• End of Term Assembly

• Chaplain’s Guest blog.....
• Rules for good writing....

• Inspection Matters
• 100 Years of the BBC
• Ode to Autumn
• If I were Education Secretary I would…

• A look in the rear-view mirror

• Prize Giving Speech - September 2022
• We meet today to reflect upon and celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth II
• Welcome back

• Rites of Passage
• GCSE Results 2022
• A Level Results 2022

• The Perfect Team…
• Great Yews 2022 – the adventure begins…

• Goodbye to the pioneers…

• An unfinished masterpiece…
• Goodbye Year 11…and Year 13

• A Good Read
• Return of Houses
• Exams
• 764 days

• Reading for Assembly/Cathedral Service
• International Womens’ Day

• Ukraine – and Russia
• The road ahead…

• Out of the Covid tunnel
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• Coming back stronger

• Price – or value…?
• Lessons from the fells
• Ring Out, Wild Bells

• If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint…
• Anti-Bullying Week 2021
• RBL 100

• An outrage in Leigh-on-Sea
• B:M 2021

• Prize Giving Speech 2021
• Nationalism deconstructed...
• They started as individuals but ended together...
• Autumn Starts....

• Meetings…and Partings

• Opening Up is Delayed...
• A time to plan...

• The interview game...
• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted...
• The next steps back along the road...
• A very social network...?

• These are NOT exams by the back door…!
• HM End of Term Blog

• End of term matters...
• BWS back in the groove...and an eruption
• The boys (and girls) are back in town....*
• Testing testing

• Here we go again
• Next Slide Please
• Dave Egerton
• The last week before the break
• When sorrows come

• Farewell Arthur Bowden
• A team effort
• It’s been a long year already
• Happy New Year or is it a bit of a hangover?

• A complicated last week... and then there’s next summer to look forward to!

• A glimmer of light
• It’s a wonderful life
• Impact of the second wave
• Remembrance 2020 – who’s to know
• The second lap is about to start

• Seven Saints of St Paul’s (Black History Month)
• Taking Stock
• Déjà vu in a week of highs and some lows

• Farewell to the Notorious RBG
• The State of Play – and how to improve it
• One week down
• 1054 all in

• The next chapter of an eventful year
• Exams – and something that everyone should read

• End of the 2019-2020 academic year
• Black Lives Matter – a follow up

• Reasons to be (more) cheerful
• We’re getting back into business
• Black Lives Matter
• Making the most of lockdown 3

• Second half of summer term 2020
• The need to value what we have
• Making the most of lockdown 2
• How might things be different on the other side

• Making the most of lockdown
• Start of Summer Term 2020
• End of Spring Term Letter

• Getting used to a new routine
• We live in the strangest of times....
• Delaying the inevitable…
• Play for Today…

• ThrowbackThursday
• Tussle at the Ray Mac

• A duty to tell the generations that follow…
• Spring term timeline
• 130 years and counting…

• December has arrived
• BWS General Election Hustings 2019

• 2,000 followers and counting…
• Uplifting conversations
• Remembrance 2019
• ‘That’ World Cup Final…

• The long shadow of austerity…
• Creationtide - first service of the academic year...
• Cathedral Service Main Reading
• National Poetry Day 2019
• Letter from Greenwich…

• A Different World
• Looking back – and looking forward
• HM Prize Giving Speech 2019
• Joining the launch pad
• The return of Autumn

• We’re Nearly There
• A walk on the wild side

• A nice juxtaposition
• A community crossing the age divide
• Making a World Class Education happen
• A cure for insomnia…
• Literary Pursuits – Radio 3, 2 June 2019 1845-1930; Golding at BWS