WELCOME FROM THE HEAD Looking back on the past year, I have been struck by the amazing flexibility and dynamism of the whole College community. Where there was a will, there certainly was a way, and from our return in September 2020 in House bubbles, in masks, and with all the many Covid restrictions upon us, we concluded the year being able to reflect upon academic challenge, sporting success, musical and dramatic achievement and many other triumphs in a year when nothing was as we expected it to be. Our final evening of the year saw us celebrate with a wonderful open air dinner, and a prize giving for our Upper Sixth who really appreciated all that had been done to conclude their year in the best way possible.
remote learning provision for the entirety of the Spring Term. However, true Cheltonian spirit made everything possible and we now look forward to a very bright future ahead. We have mastered technology that we could not have dreamt of using a few years ago, and the world beyond our shores has come to our doorstep in the way that we can speak and see each other, irrespective of the distance between us. As the new Cheltenham Muscat opens, we know there will be many exciting ways to work and learn together with Cheltonians and their teachers in Oman and in other countries on other continents too in the years to come. However, the greatest lesson to be learned from all we have experienced in the last year has been how very lucky we are to be a part of this wonderful school. We have learned the importance of being together, and of treasuring every moment of even the smallest and simplest of things. I could not wait to welcome College back into Chapel together, and to sing ‘Jerusalem’ and our other College favourites full volume once again. That was a day to celebrate. As pupils and staff of College in 2021, we understand our good fortune has come from the achievements of our predecessors, and we look forward to writing the next exciting chapter of College history.
The President of Council spoke on Speech Day about the resilience of College, and we looked back at the time of war in 1939, when for the first time, College fell empty in term time and relocated itself to Shrewsbury to make way for the Civil Service to occupy our buildings to maintain the war effort. As last year, I could not have imagined that we would face a challenge like that again, as we did when we had to move College to our
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Learning in their billets at Shrewsbury, 1940
Learning online – Art with Mr Lelliott, 2021
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Mrs Nicola Huggett
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