In her autobiographical novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the famous 20th century American novelist Betty Smith writes about her experiences in a grim state school in New York, describing the visits from a couple of Art teachers as “the gold and silver sun-splash in the great muddy river of school days.” The joy and…
DetailsDear Parents, Although many of our pupils this week would have started to open their advent calendars, other local events have somewhat taken over, with the closure of our school due to the weather. I trust none of you were adversely affected and all were safe during the severe rain. The school has not suffered…
DetailsDear Parents, Last week, as you know, I was away in the UK attending the annual conference of the Association of British Schools Overseas. As a member of the executive committee, I had the pleasure of introducing a number of speakers and special guests to the event, such as Sir David Carter (the recently retired…
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Try thinking of a leader who has inspired you. It’s harder than you might think, perhaps because we initially try to conjure up someone of the calibre of Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi. But on a more modest scale, there are a number of figures who serve as role models, perhaps ones we…
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Click here to read this article in Spanish / Click aquí para leer el artículo en español At the start of this century, social media as we know it was still in its embryonic stages. If someone had said back then that politicians would communicate via tweets, most of us would have dismissed the idea as…
DetailsDear Parents, This week began with our annual Remembrance assembly, ably led this year by Mr Garden who spoke about the significance of the poppy and about the number of countries involved in the First World War – including how Spain was affected by the world’s events. I have also been in Madrid this…
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Infants arriving at King’s College Chamartín on a sunny autumn morning in Madrid found themselves transported instead to the jungles of Africa. Met by the call of the wild from the Swinging Safari’s Wimoweh, it didn’t take them long to get into character, dressing up as alligators and lions and hammering out a number of…
DetailsDear Parents, After the long weekend, it is always good to see the students returning, looking smart in their winter uniform as the weather begins to get a little cooler. This week has been very much a week of meetings and presentations. On Tuesday we welcomed our Parental Advisory Group, made up of parents both…
DetailsDear Parents, In this shortened week, we have enjoyed our annual Halloween parade, with EYFS and KS1 in all their finery, as well as some of our older pupils! I was glad to see a few individuals had recycled their costumes, thinking about the environment and the pollutive effects of discarded costumes and their manufacture.…
DetailsDear Parents, This week we welcomed parents from Secondary for our regular coffee afternoon. I have been visiting our sister school in Madrid and talking through the inspection process with them, as they prepare for their next school inspection in March next year. Our valiant athletes from last week have made a swift recovery and…
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