Author Archives: Tim Lewis

Much has happened since my March Blog! The scheduled building works were completed in 3 weeks and 2 days and what a welcome transformation!  I have received so many positive comments about the light corridors, high ceilings and new classrooms! … Continue reading →

24th March 2012 Dear Parents, children and friends, As we race to the end of a busy term, I felt that I had to bring you all up to speed with developments at Skippers and some news from our parent … Continue reading →

Saturday was wall to wall Rugby: the Scots winning the Wooden Spoon; the English routing the Irish; and Wales emerging as the Six Nations’ Champions after taming the French. As an avid Rugby supporter, I was in my element!  I … Continue reading →

Wherever one turns, there is room for education.  Opportunities present themselves and knowledge is waiting to be inculcated. Yesterday afternoon at around five o’clock 9 adults and 34 pupils boarded a coach bound for the West End.  The temperature was … Continue reading →

What a busy end of term! The Christmas Fayre was brilliantly organised by Chairman Jane.  The three dodgy gangsters on the Human Fruit Machine were hysterical and dispensed their booty with true generosity. Santa arrived by hackney carriage and obviously … Continue reading →

What a crazy Autumn Term! It all began with “the phone call”!  It was our Reporting Inspector, Liz Coley, detailing our ISI inspection and asking for a hundredweight of documentation to be sent to her within 24 hours! Our well-oiled … Continue reading →

A sunny Saturday morning, three days after the inspectors came to call, I awoke racked with guilt.  Food was on my mind and I needed to spill the beans to anyone willing to listen, to extend the metaphor.  You, the … Continue reading →

Throughout the Summer, two highly skilled building teams have been racing against a tight schedule to complete a new classroom block with state-of-the-art facilities and to refurbish the old dorms to provide fabulous accommodation for Years 6, 7 and 8.  … Continue reading →

What a weekend! Fiona had abandoned Rowan and me to visit our daughter, SamSam, in London.  Home Alone! Saturday whizzed by in a mass of mundane matters – nice bit of alliteration, I think to myself (which makes me a … Continue reading →

I am on lifeguard duty at the Hotel Mayfair and Hector and Isaac are lounging in a bubbling sauna – no doubt limbering up for a touch of ten pin bowling this afternoon. What an edifying and humbling morning we … Continue reading →