Dear Parents
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr Seuss
Today is World Book Day so we have spent this week celebrating the world of books and the magic of reading. Wednesday was dress up as your favourite book character, so the campus was filled with Harry Potters, (Where’s) Wally, a few wizards and so on. The best dressed staff prize went to Grant de Sousa as Obelix while Laurelle Fry came a close second as Cruelle da Ville.
Other activities included support staff (admin, cleaning and maintenance) reading to different classes which all parties greatly enjoyed. At grade assemblies, Richard Goedhals and I were interviewed about the books we read as children. This brought back many happy childhood memories as both of us loved reading from an early age. I was surprised at how many knew of the books we told them about and had even read them. Although none of them had heard of an Annual.
VUSA
Yesterday morning saw the launch of the VUSA Mobile Library Tuk Tuk. Very generously donated by a Bishops family, this Tuk Tuk will go to the creches supported by VUSA in Langa once a week. Photographs of the send off appear later in the newsletter. Our VUSA Rugby and Learning Academy continues to grow in scope and extent and I am very grateful to the staff and parents who have contributed so much to make this possible.
TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP
I am pleased to report that Monday’s Transformation Workshop went very well, it involved all Bishops staff (more than 200) from every department across all campuses. Fifteen staff facilitators had been trained by our appointed specialist, Lele Mehlomakulu, and they facilitated the full day process in a number of different venues. The day was geared to self-reflection: acknowledging unconscious bias, opening oneself up to vulnerability, the danger of the single story. This led to the beginning of a series of conversations, some very difficult, and these conversations will continue on a number of topics around inclusion and diversity. We believe these will bring about many new understandings of each other and also where necessary, translate into direction actions, in policy change, curriculum, school programmes – essentially a school growing into an increasingly welcoming place for all.
Have a good weekend.
Kind regards
GREG BROWN
HEADMASTER
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