News
Very Welcome Visitors...
Monday 21st June 2010
We have been delighted to welcome six visiting teachers from South Africa, they are an enthusiastic and responsive group and have really enjoyed life inside and outside St James. Unfortunately they think it is winter and are still adjusting to the vagaries of English weather.
Their assembly last Monday was a beautiful manifestation of the spirit of Africa with song, drums and information. The school received a lesson on the symbolism of the South Africa flag and the many and varied languages of the ‘rainbow nation’.
The St James teachers and children provide rich inspiration. Midsummer is a good time to visit the school as there is a wide range of interesting events to enjoy. Our visitors met Father Rob the School Chaplin and enjoyed a breadth of topics in assemblies including plays, such as, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamlin’.
This week they will experience the Sanskrit Speech Competition and Agincourt an abridge version of Shakespeare’s Henry V performed by the boys of Years 5 & 6. And every day there is music in the school; the children sing and play instruments.
The only disappointment has been the soccer, the teachers of St James provided a World cup party for them but victories have still proved elusive.
Best wishes
Paul Moss - Principal