News from Mr Grady
23rd May 2024
Hello Everyone,
I do hope you are looking forward to a restful half term break. It feels, bizarrely, as though this break has come around quite quickly, despite this having been a seven-week half term. I suspect the next seven weeks, as busy and as full as the last seven weeks have been, could be even more full of incident.
As I have always said from the start of my newsletters, I would do my best to keep them light, focussed on the life of RHS, and not too intruded upon by the outside world, wherever possible. There have been notable exceptions, and with the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday evening of a General Election on 4th July, I feel this is one to mention.
Obviously, as a school we will not be expressing any partisan views, but we will of course be encouraging our students and our community to engage with the process, the debates, the manifestos, and the process of our democracy. It is a great chance to reflect on where we might get our news from, where we can check facts, and where we can ensure we look at claims and counter-claims with a critical and informed eye.
It allows us to hear different opinions expressed, to reflect on our own, but importantly to listen and to try to understand different viewpoints in a mature and considered fashion, and to come to our own conclusions.
In what I am sure could be a noisy period across all forms of media and social media, it will, I am sure, mean we all have to take care to ensure we are fully informed, that we have our facts straight.
As manifestos emerge, and public hustings and debates take place, I urge everyone to interact with our democratic process, a great chance for our students to unpick the workings of our democracy, to be interested, and to make a difference – our vision aims to give students a confident voice, and the next few weeks will be a great chance for us to explore this with them.
I do hope you have a restful half term,
Stay well and safe everyone,
With all best wishes,
Mr Grady
