We have just returned from a beautiful and incredibly moving Church Service at St. Peter’s. Our Form 8 pupils told the Christmas story beautifully and made me extremely proud. We enjoyed performances from our school choirs and orchestras, and a wonderful rendition of ‘It’s Christmas’ performed by the whole of our Junior Prep.
Thank you to Rev’d Magee, Mrs Nolan-Stone and all the staff and performers who put together such a wonderful service to end our term.
On Monday we also took time to reflect as we held our beautiful Christingle service in school, led by Rev’d Magee.
It was so lovely to sit together as a school and have this moment of peace as we thought about the meaning of Christingle and about those less fortunate than ourselves. Thank you to all our PTFA parents who helped to make all the Christingles.
Yesterday was a fabulous day as it was Christmas Day at Sunninghill! The school was awash with Christmas jumpers and accessories, and the feeling of huge excitement was palpable from all the children – and staff!
We started the day with our Celebration Assembly, where we awarded children sport and music colours, Academic, Sport and Music Endeavour Cups, and certificates for the most house points for each of our school values over the term. Samson and Daisy won the Commitment prize, Juliet M-H and Sasha the Creativity prize, George and Phin the Compassion prize and Romeo and Finlay the Courage prize.
The result of our Christmas door competition was announced today, with Form 6 winning for the second year running, and Reception class a close second. All the doors looked wonderful – and it was lovely to see how much effort had gone into make the doors look so wonderful!
Carols under the staircase followed, where parents joined in with the carol singing. This is one of the events that I most look forward to in the school calendar. Coco led us with a beautiful solo verse of ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ which set the tone for the event. I was also delighted to see so many of our Nursery children who were all wonderfully behaved.
We were then treated to the most incredible Christmas lunch from Kerry and the team. In the afternoon, whilst Bobbins to Form 2 enjoyed a trip to the Lighthouse Theatre to see ‘The Glass Slipper’, Forms 3-8 enjoyed an ice skating trip to Brewery Square!
It really was a wonderful day!
After a brilliant term of sport, Forms 3 – 8 enjoyed their inter house hockey and rugby matches. Frome and Purbeck were the victors, with Purbeck winning the house cup at the end of term for all the inter house matches and house points for their 4 C’s.
As I sat last night and reflected on the term that we have just had, I was incredibly proud of all the amazing things our children have got up to this term. I am so grateful to all of the staff who help to provide all these opportunities to our children and I hope that they all take a very well deserved break over this festive period.
All that remains is for me to wish you all a very Happy Christmas, and I hope that 2025 is a wonderful year for you all.
Best wishes
David
