Brookhill

                                                                     Mr David Murphy

Senior School

As we break for Easter and a well-deserved rest, I look back twelve months and realise how much we have to be thankful for. 

 

This time last year we were heading into a new and fraught future of lockdowns and Home Learning; now, we are able to look forward to a freer and more normal future, knowing that new strengths and resources acquired over the last year are now at our disposal. Hard times create strong people and all of us have found within ourselves strengths and resources previously unknown. The ability to adapt, the strength to endure, the determination to persevere, and the compassion to care which came out of last year will serve each of us well as we negotiate the challenges to come.

Values

As we worked together to support each other through the strange times of 2020, the Aitken College Values of Compassion, Honesty, Integrity, Kindness, and Respect shone through at all times. We were (and are) lucky to be part of a community grounded on such concrete and intrinsic values. It was by enacting these values that we found the strength support each other through the “unprecedented” times. The gratitude we now feel for our community and each other comes from our values, as does the renewed sense of purpose with which we approach the remainder of the year together.

Happy Easter

Have a blessed Easter; do enough homework; spend more than enough time with your family; indulge in the things that make you happy. 

 

I look forward to what we will achieve together next term.

Year 10 Urbnsurf Day

On Friday 26 March we had the pleasure of taking the Year 10 students to Urbnsurf for a day of fun. Upon arrival, they all had a surf lesson then two one-hour sessions out riding the waves. Some staff including: Mr Salloum, Mrs Lilley and Mr Adams even donned their wetsuits to join in with the students. Such an enjoyable day with a fabulous group of young people. 

Mrs Belinda Jarvis-Dymond

Head of House (Cameron)