Happy New Year to all students, staff, governors and parents.

The Autumn term finished with a flourish, many thanks and congratulations to the prefect team for organising one the the best Pop Mimes on record, thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Also congratulations to the contestants who entered the book mastermind competition. Mrs Marriott tells me that we had 25 contestants enter into the fun and competitive spirit of Book Mastermind this year. Three heats were held over the past month which gave rise to the 6 finalists. Each of the students had to answer 20 questions on a fiction book of their choice in a time frame of 2 minutes putting themselves under the spotlight on the Deputy Head’s black chair! A place in the final means a different choice of book and the pressure all over again! A remarkable achievement then for Liam Saunders to score 18 correct answers with no passes in a time of 1 minute 53 seconds, Liam’s winning choice of book was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. In second place for the second year running was Mattea Ball who also gave an outstanding performance answering 17 correctly again with no passes in a time of 1 minute and 28 seconds.

Well done to all involved.

My thanks to Mrs Charlish for organising our Presentation evening just before Christmas and to Lorna  Charlish for being our guest speaker, it is always great to see our alumni doing so well in the competitive business world. It was tremendous to see our students returning from University with tales of how things are progressing. They really are an inspiration to our younger students.

We at Bungay High would like to pass on our condolences to Mr David Brook husband of Angela Brook, the Mayor of Bungay who lost her very brave fight against cancer just before Christmas, Angela was a great supporter of the school as well as one of our exam invigilators, she will be sorely missed.

We now move into a very busy spring term , with  a raft of exams for all year groups upon us, I believe our students have the commitment and motivation to succeed again this year. We also wish our year 12 Drama students all the best for their performances on Thursday evening of this week.

Our partnership planning for the new school in September is going well, we have appointed 12 middle school staff so far to our team with more to follow once we have our confirmed pupil numbers in February. Mrs MacKenzie is doing a fantastic job training staff, students and governors in the new ways of the house and vertical tutoring system, parents are being kept informed of the process and possible outcomes.