15th May 2017

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Would you believe it that we were not fully half way through May and some of our Housman Hallians have finished their exams and their formal education here at Bromsgrove School. A few have returned home for a brief sojourn before returning for the Commemoration day weekend whilst Dan Kulebiakin has remained with us this week and is undertaking a week shadowing a judge in order to gain experience for his own future law career … how typical of our Housman Hall pupils to finish their exams, take the weekend off and then plough into something so productive and enriching!

It is not only IB2 pupils who are now feeling the buzz of examination excitement. This week the first A-Level pupils will enter the examination halls, take their place in the long rows of examination desks and sit their first external examinations. Mathematics papers still mean both L6th and U6th pupils and therefore many of our L6th will be tested over the coming weeks. This week also marks the final week of teaching for U6th pupils and we will have a Hog Roast in house on Thursday to celebrate the end of teaching for A2 and the end of examinations for IB2.

As this is Housman Hall there is always a lot more to celebrate and even though the examinations change the daily life and rhythm of the house to an extent our pupils don’t stop throwing themselves into all aspects of school life. Last week it was a great pleasure to see Abbah Abbah perform his winning entry to the Housman House verse competition in front of the entire school at Routh Assembly and he managed to capture the attention and move the 900 plus pupils and staff who listened enraptured to his fantastic composition on the theme of “Walls”. Also at Routh Assembly the School monitor team for the year 2017-2018 were announced. Housman Hall is very proud to have two school monitors for the coming year and our congratulations are extended to Tosin Attah and Sergey Marchenko who will take up their posts in the coming weeks. This is an excellent achievement and a great honour of which they should be rightly proud.

Alongside all of this the school’s extra-curricular programme continues with Housman Hall pupils involved in Cricket, Tennis and Athletics teams for the school this weekend but also Artem Pavlov took the opportunity to join up with his CCF contingent on Sunday evening for a night away at CCF camp. The weather did not quite live up to the calendar’s expectations but involvement in this aspect of school life is a very worthy activity.

With the weeks counting down until commemoration I am very much looking forward to seeing many of you at this very special occasion.

Best wishes

James