Headteacher Blog

Yesterday, 94% of our families were represented at the progress meetings for parents and carers. It was so lovely to be able to spend time with you and I know the teachers welcomed the opportunity to meet with you face to face once again. Day to day life in school […]

In preparation for Mental Health Week, we have spent time reminding the children about the definition of the word bullying. We are very fortunate at St William’s that our school community wholeheartedly buys into our ‘zero tolerance’ approach to bullying. Bullying is not a word you will often hear being […]

As we come to the end of our first half term of the year, we can reflect on a very happy and productive few weeks in school. Highlights have included a residential trip for Year 6, trips or visitors for every class, a very successful fundraising coffee morning and a […]

We have returned to school with great excitement this week. Many of the procedures that have restricted school life for the last 18 months have been eased at last and school has a welcome feel of normality. It has been a delight to welcome our new nursery and Reception children […]

The two week holiday in May had never been such a welcome break. Not just because we were all tired having worked so very hard in school but because bubble closure had affected us so badly. We were very lucky in the Autumn term to not be affected. However, the […]

We are finally in the month of May (though you would never think so, looking at the weather). As the flowers start to bloom, our thoughts turn to Our Lady in this special month we dedicate to her. When I was at school, we would crown the statue of Mary […]

Wishing all our families a very happy Easter. I hope you all managed to have a lovely holiday with your families. The coronavirus restrictions are slowly easing and life is gradually getting back to some sort of normality. We are looking for ways of putting as many as our summer […]

This continues to be a very difficult time for our whole school community. The majority of our children remain at home and are sitting out, what feels like, a very long lockdown. When we locked down last March, it was all very new and frightening but the sun was shining […]

2020 was a very difficult year for us all and we faced challenges that we could have never predicted. Our school closed to most pupils in March, partially opened in June and fully opened in September. We were blessed with an Autumn term of stability for our school community and […]

On Sunday we celebrated the feast of All Saints. We remember those who went before us making sacrifices for the sake of the faith and for the good of others.  We talk all the time in school about how our actions and the choices we make, define us.  It can […]