BISHOP VESEY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL INSPIRATION AND EXCELLENCE
THE VESEYAN WINTER 2021 | EDITION 13
HEAD'S FOREWORD WRITTEN BY MR ROBSON, HEADTEACHER The ancient wisdom of ‘counting your blessings’ is sage advice in this Covid-19 era. The Veseyan recognises just some of those blessings, which are fundamental to the mission, vision and values of Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School. Our School nurtures a wonderful community of young people (p16-18) from year 7 (p14-15) to year 13. They take seriously our Vesey curriculum (p1-11) with its emphasis on scholarship and community. They are part of a warm, outward-looking and supportive community celebrating and promoting diversity and equality, actively anti-discrimination (p5-9). They engage with the co-curricular provision of the school, where we develop students of excellent character (p12-13,19,20-23). Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School is never inward looking. We want to develop responsible global citizens who want to make the world a better place. There is no better example of that than the work of our Charity team this term. (p25) Another important blessing is that we have a community of people around this school, who are willing us on, supporting us and encouraging us: from the governors and the members to the PTFA to the OVA to our corporate partners and of course our parents. Just look at the lunch recently, which raised £5,000 for the school. Thank you Heidi, Karl Claire and the team for making this happen. (p26)
Then we have the blessing of the staff, who have worked so hard this term to support our students. They are an able group and we are lucky to have them with us. I have to single out Mr Buxton, our Director of Music, who pulled off a Christmas miracle, live streaming our concerts at very short notice. A couple of staff are moving on – we wish them well and thank them for their support for the School (p27). Finally, we have the blessing of history. We are a School that every day builds upon the successes of previous generations of staff, students and parents. Old Veseyans of every vintage we salute you and we hope you enjoy some snippets of OV news (p27-36). By the way, Old Veseyans, it would help us both environmentally and financially, if you would consider receiving the Veseyanin digital form rather than a paper copy. Email Natalie Harris n.harris@bishopveseys.bham.sch.uk if you would like to do that. So with our Vesey blessings duly counted, I wish you and your family the blessing of every happiness and good health for this Christmas period and a happy new year!
