We are delighted that our Partnership Programme at the School continues to go from strength to strength, with a packed calendar of events this term.

We have joined forces with Twyford St Mary’s Village School for two mixed cricket matches, Science Day, a Drama Workshop Day, weekly recorder lessons resulting in the brilliant performance to parents and we look forward to our Eco Ninjas helping with the village allotment project after half term – bug hotels and seed bags have already been made in anticipation!

Our inaugural May Fair held last weekend was a fabulous pop-up shopping event to raise money for the Hampshire Medical Fund. 35 local and national stallholders were involved, a third of which were former Twyford parents, Alumni pupils and friends of the School.  We enjoyed welcoming our fellow villagers, current parents and those who had come from further afield. Many thanks to Twyford parent Nick Drew for his kind sponsorship donation.

We have also welcomed a large group of the Twyford village’s older generation for their Community Tuesday Tea this week. The Jimmy Adams Pavilion was set up for a cream tea as our visitors enjoyed catching up with each other, watching cricket training from the sunny balcony and learning a bit more about the School’s history; we are hoping to make this an annual event.

As well as these thriving relationships, we also continue with our Lumina Programme Initiative. We have two teachers weekly tutoring and mentoring children who are in the care system, and it has been a great success – one pupil even receiving a maths award recently on the back of her extra help. We are the only School in Hampshire to be involved, and we hope to recruit further prep schools moving forward.

We have finished this half of term with another successful and fun afternoon at the Family Golf Day at Avington this afternoon with a sterling turnout of nearly fifty players – another brilliant fundraiser for our Transformational Bursary programme.