Headteacher’s Blog – Friday 21st March 2025

It’s been red noses all round today as the Student Council have organised our Fundraising day in aid of Comic Relief. With an impressive Bake Sale at break and lunchtime, selling of noses and non-uniform day, we’ve raised an amazing £593 in total. Thank you for your support and generous donations. 

In assemblies for Years 8 and 9 towards the end of last week ‘On the Verge’, in conjunction with the Police, delivered a session to raise awareness of County lines. Assemblies have moved aside this week for the Year 8 exams which are now finished and Year 7 are ready to start theirs next week. These exam weeks really help our students to get into good routines for exams, preparing them well for the years ahead.

Thank you for your responses to the Parent Governor election held recently. We were delighted to welcome our new Parent Governor, Kelly Ashley, to the Full Governing Body of the Boroughbridge High School and King James’s School Federation on Thursday evening.

An event for your diary – we have our Drama and Music Showcase on Tuesday 1st April at 6p.m. We’ll look forward to seeing you there.

As you’re aware, we work closely with the Wellbeing in Mind team who are based on our school site, and they run a number of sessions to support our young people, parents and carers. Here are the details if you’d like to access their Online Sleep Workshop. 

We were very proud of Tyler in Year 11 on Thursday when, following an alert raised from the scene of an accident close to school, he ran to take one of our defibrillators to the scene as quickly as was humanly possible.

Have a lovely weekend.