How Time Flies

A lovely warm summer evening tonight for the Lower School end of term chapel service and BBQ. The Lower School choir sang Rutter's The Lord bless you and keep you, and the congregation sang heartily. Afterwards as the young people spread out across Terrace playing all sorts of games and the adults fell on the food we were all saying that it really does not seem a year since the welcome day and the first day of term in September. Of course the thing is that it is not a year - only three quarters of one, term actually has a couple of weeks to go, and the long summer holiday lies ahead. It certainly seems only a short time to me since we were dropping our eldest, now about to leave LS2, for the beginning of his first year.

There were goodbyes as well, to Chris Jones, the Head of Lower School, who is leaving to be Deputy Head at Churcher's College in Hampshire. His contribution to the development in Lower School was warmly acknowledged both in Chapel and afterwards. In addition Richard Charters, one of the LS tutors, is off to Colombia. Good luck to them both.