A year in the life of the School
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t was wonderful to fully reopen the School at the start of the 2020-21 academic year as tentative steps were made on the road to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
A difficult path still lay ahead with restrictions, bubbles, logistical problems and two further national lockdowns, but Worth dealt with each challenge confidently and with resilience, emerging stronger from what can be considered as the most testing year it has ever faced. Trying to retain a sense of normality for pupils was a key focus for the Senior Leadership Team and staff in general. Face masks, hand sanitising stations, bubbles and year group zones were the new normal, but as much was done as possible to retain the old ‘normal’ for the wellbeing of the children in the School.
Hand sanitising stations became part of everyday life
That was achieved in the Autumn Term through some notable events and occasions, the likes of which would increase as the year unfolded, particularly in the Summer Term. Early in the year the School’s youngest students, in Years 7 and 8, put on a performance of Macbeth – not to an audience, but filmed and released via a link on the school website. There was a ‘Welcome to the Sixth Form’ event for our new Year 12 students, the Debating Society was relaunched, with some notable successes in online national competitions, and a student-led library delivery scheme was started to ensure library resources remained available to all without having to mix in person with different year groups.
Catering events in lockdown included a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
The Perera Prize was presented in honour of former Head of Maths, Gordon Perera
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The Inter-House Debating Competition was revived – and won by Farwell
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