SPEECH DAY HEAD OF COLLEGE’S SPEECH
Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Mayors and Guests. It is wonderful to see so many of you here today to celebrate the end of this academic year, and it gives me the opportunity to give you an insight into the developments in the College, and the incredible achievements that our pupils have had. In a recent assembly, Mrs Parker spoke about resilience - what it is, how we can learn to be resilient and the importance of it, and she finished with the quotation from Winston Churchill: “success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”. Resilience is something that I think we do very well at St Lawrence, and it is a theme that runs throughout the College. As you know, we were one of the first 14 schools globally to gain world class status in High Performance Learning, and there are now 65 schools who have been afforded this recognition. Resilience is one of the cornerstones of High Performance Learning and is one of the Values,
Attitudes and Attributes that we explicitly teach, and have embedded throughout our curriculum. It is also something that the re-accreditation team commented on when we had our last HPL inspection in February. Their report finishes with the comment that “It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to learn and experience the College’s enthusiasm and broad outlook in embracing the latest developments in pedagogy, neuroscience and psychology.” They also commented that there was “something very special going on” at the College in terms of its pedagogical approach and its culture, and that we had “made phenomenal progress post Covid” in our teaching and learning at the College in terms of its pedagogical approach and its culture, and that we had “made phenomenal progress post Covid” in our teaching and learning. This is obviously testament to the hard work and dedication of our teaching staff as well as the buy-in that we have received from our pupils and parents – and I have been delighted with the contributions and engagement that some of our parents have had in our Parents’ Working Group.
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