One of my favourite TV programmes ever was The Office – the UK version – co-written and starring Ricky Gervais as the odious David Brent, and I found out recently that it was Ricky Gervais who is credited with one of my favourite aphorisms, which goes as follows: “When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It’s only […]

Sport Rowing: The highlight of the year for the Boat Club has been the success of the Boys’ year 11 Eight winning both the Junior 16 category at the Head of the Nene, Peterborough and the Novice eights event at the Head of the Cam, Cambridge.   Awards: Cruttenden Book Prize for Captain of Boats […]

Sir Matthew, Guest of Honour, Governors, Parents, Colleagues, Pupils, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to start by saying thank you. Thank you to the Governors for their wise counsel and support during the last year, thank you to my colleagues, both teaching and support staff; thanks to the hardworking Leys Connection Committee and especially […]

Starting with the sports report, and there were some fantastic individual and team performances at the weekend. Centuries were scored by both Noah T and Freya H in the 1st XI fixtures and 8 half centuries were scored by pupils in the 1st XI, 2nd XI, U15A and U14A teams. Congratulations to the U14A boys’ […]

Welcome back and I hope you had a great break. I’ll start with sporting matters and just before half term, the top tennis players in Year 9 competed in a singles tournament called “Play Your Way to Wimbledon”. These tournaments are held across the country by schools and clubs. The winners and runners up go […]

We had some excellent results on the cricket pitches this week. The 1st XI girls team were at their best on Friday in the cup game against Kimbolton. Bea bowled beautifully and demolished their top and middle order and finished with remarkable figures of 6 wickets for 8 runs off her 4 overs meaning her […]