Wow – in what was supposed to be a calm and steady 4 day week, turned out to be much bigger than we originally anticipated!  On Wednesday and Thursday we welcomed our visitors to the school, and we cannot be more proud of our students in the way they demonstrated their pride for our school in all of their lessons and beyond.  We also want to thank the parents and carers who took the time to complete the survey and especially to those who added such positive, impactful comments – we were blown away by your support.  I have to ask you to be a little patient as we await the inspection report, as soon as it arrives and has been validated, we will share the findings with you. Back to Thursday, the afternoon saw our second STEPs awards celebration, what a joy to meet the proud parents and carers of our Spring Term winners and finally, in the evening, with minutes to spare following the visitors’ final report to us, Mr Blamey (Vice Chair of the Trustees), Mr Lee and myself arrived at the Bingham Hall for Kingshill’s Got Talent and met the final judge, Mrs Somm.  Mr Ashby, organiser extraordinaire, took us through our roles and then the curtain was raised!  What an uplifting end to the week – if you have never experienced a school talent show, then book your tickets now, ready for next year.  All participating students were phenomenal.  They demonstrated huge courage as each and every one of them owned the stage and gave the judges an incredibly tough task in selecting the final 3 acts.  If you want to know who they were, you will have to look out for our special feature in next week’s newsletter!