Join us for our Christmas Day Service in the Chapel - we wish everybody a happy and healthy festive season.

‘Why do we need to know this?’ and, ‘Is this in the exam?’ are two of the most dispiriting questions to hear as a teacher. We want to reply like W B Yeats and say: ‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.’ We like to think that each lesson is like those adverts on the television where children stare in wonder at the magic their teacher is weaving and the ‘aha’ moments zip around the room like Christmas lights. We don’t want to face the fact that for some children the ability to solve quadratic equations or identify sibilance in a poem will never be needed as adults.

On Saturday, 27 November, Warwick School competed in the regional round of the National Concert Band Festival, which took place in Warwick Hall. Six bands from Warwick School entered the competition, all with the goal of impressing the panel of adjudicators and gaining a qualifying award for the National finals in Manchester in April.