Newsletter 07.02.25
It’s been another busy week here at The Hurlingham Academy. Teachers have been working around the clock to mark all the assessments completed by KS3, and I have already observed some fantastic feedback lessons.
Newsletter 31.01.25
This week I have been reflecting about the role of parents and the community, in supporting our vision here at The Hurlingham Academy. It is through working together that we really can achieve the best for our pupils.
Newslewtter 24.01.25
Once again it has been a busy week here at The Hurlingham Academy. Key stage 3 continued to work hard on their assessments.
Newsletter 17.01.25
Although we have only been back for a couple of weeks, it feels like we are well into this half term. I say this not because it has felt long, to the contrary the weeks have flown by, but because of how settled and focussed pupils are.
Newsletter 10.01.25
Happy New Year to all of our parents, students, staff, governors and members of our local community. At the start of a New Year, I like to reset my goals: to refresh my aims for the year. Here at The Hurlingham Academy, we know how important continuous improvement is.
Newsletter 16.12.24
It has been another busy week at The Hurlingham Academy. As you know, one of my favourite phrases is that good, or in our case outstanding, schools don’t wind down. As I walked around school this week I saw pupils working hard in every classroom. It has also been lovely to see key stage 4 pupils starting to receive feedback from their mock papers, and see pupils are responding to this feedback so positively.
Newsletter 06.12.24
As regular readers of the newsletters will know, I absolutely love the festive season. As soon as December hits in my house, the Christmas tree goes up, in all it’s flashing glory. I have also increased the number of Christmas trees we have up in school, to really get into the festive spirit.
Newsletter 29.11.24
This It has been another incredibly busy week here at The Hurlingham Academy. On Wednesday we had our school drop down day. During periods 1-3 years 7 and 8 were studying a wide range of computing skills ranging from spreadsheets to coding. I have to say from walking around the school, I was blown away by some of our year 7 pupil’s coding knowledge– although I really felt my age as I most definitely did not learn this at school.
Newsletter 22.11.24
This week, I have taken some time to reflect on our relationships with the parents and carers of the pupils in our care. As a Head, I do my best to be open to feedback from all of our stakeholders, including staff, students and, of course, parents.
Newsletter 15.11.24
This week I have been reflecting on the fantastic extra curricular opportunities our pupils have at this school. In the past 2 weeks alone we have had; 2 year 11 careers trips, one to the National Apprentice Fair and one to Ibstock Place, a year 7 rewards trip to the cinema, the year 10 Debate Mate launch followed by their first debating session, a year 11 art trip, year 10 advertising agency trip, a year 7 girls rugby tournament and to end the week, we waved year 9 pupils off on their adventures to explore the battlefields in France and Belgium.