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ISSUE 111 SPRING
British School Girls Ski Races in Flaine More photographs inside...
From the Head For the many of us who have worked in schools for a long time, the Spring (or Lent as it is known in some schools) term is often the least popular of the three school terms. It starts with the inevitable ‘post festive season blues’, the January days are short, dark and often cold, very cold at times this year. Light, warmth, sunshine and the arrival of Spring feel a long way off. It is also usually the shortest and most intense term of the year; we seem to have the same number of events, trips and activities, as you will see in the following pages, but fewer weeks in which to fit them all in! It is around now, however, as we approach a much-needed half-term, when I feel that things start to look brighter; not just in the length of the days and the first signs of shoots and buds around our beautiful school site, but also as we think ahead to the rest of the school year and beyond. At the top of the school we are starting to plan Prize Giving and the Upper Sixth leavers’ events in the summer and in the last few weeks these girls have received a large number
of impressive offers from some of the best universities in the UK and overseas. At the same time, and as a fitting counterbalance, we are receiving acceptances of offers of places at St George’s for girls who will be joining the bottom of the school in September and beginning their St George’s journey. So, for now, it is time to relax and recharge over the halfterm break before the excitement of more House Parties, Nationals Lacrosse, House Music and the Drama Prefect’s Play, to name but a few events we have to look forward to in the following busy five weeks before Easter. Liz Hewer Headmistress