It was a pleasure on Wednesday lunchtime to attend the final of the annual House University Challenge competition complete with buzzers and some very tough questions. As ever with House events, it was competitive, sparky and a lot of fun with some extremely impressive specialist and general knowledge on display. Today we have another annual event – the Pi Baking Competition – with House matches in football and netball following for Key Stage 3 students in the final week before the Easter break and House assemblies also in that week to reveal the current standings. As ever, it is all to play for.

With the lighter evenings, we have a lot of fixtures taking place and it has been great to see Sixth Form sport become an embedded part of the school’s extra-curricular calendar. Wallingford School Sixth Form has grown considerably in recent years and now totals well over 300 students. This growth reflects its success over time – excellent results, outstanding teaching and learning, an excellent enrichment and extra-curricular offer – and the number of students we now have enables them all to access even more opportunities and experiences. It has been particularly pleasing over the past couple of years to see Sixth Form sport kick on with more matches in football, rugby and hockey in particular against other schools and colleges and very well done to all of those who have played in fixtures this year.

Finally, thankyou to everyone who took the time to complete our annual Parent and Carer Survey over the past couple of weeks. We are currently collating the information and will share it with families next week.