Highwood School

THE END

Pupils wait for the last school bell.

Final Assembly
19 July 1991
Invited Guests: Mrs Ann Braithwaite, LEA
Mr Richard Boddington, County Council
Assemble
Hymn: Morning has broken
Readings: Bible reading: N Tregoning Cider with Rosie: T Allen
Hymn: Lord of the Dance
The Chairman of Governors, Rev Canon J D Strong
Hymn: One more step along the world I go
Prayers: The Head, Miss C Endacott
Blessing
Presentations to retiring staff
Mrs Jean Shaw - 15 years at Highwood
Miss Nancy Tregoning - 23 years at Highwood
Mr Terry Allen - Gloucestershire long service award (28 years) presented by Councillor R Boddington
Items by staff and pupils
Coffee

On the back of the Programme for the Assembly
The school wishes to thank all those bodies and individuals who have contributed to Highwood School over many years:
the staff and pupils
parents
governors
the Parents' Society
local primary schools
the LEA
the Town Council
the Chamber of Trade
local employers
the Nailsworth Festival the Forest Green Senior Citizens' Club
and many, many more special individuals

[followed by the school motto]

Learn to live

Head's Report to Governors

July 1991
 

Conclusion

Highwood remains proud of its achievements and of its service to the community of Nailsworth. Governors will need no reminding of our long tradition of successful innovation and our proud record of providing education of the highest quality for our pupils, and this has continued to the end.
 

The staff have shown great fortitude and (because Highwood School has always placed its children first) they have been determined to involve the children in exciting and stimulating projects. It is a credit to them that the atmosphere has remained cheerful, positive and exhilarating.
 

Likewise the support staff, who have been so involved in the activities of the school and take such pride in their own special tasks, should be congratulated. They have been a key part of this quite remarkable team, as indeed have the parents whose loyalty was unquestionable.

We would like to thank the Governing Body for all their efforts over the years, not least during the campaign to save the school when their hard work was so evident. The support which they have given and their way of working together with the staff as part of an integrated team have been invaluable.
 

We are convinced that, although the fabric of the school may be taken away, the spirit of what we have achieved will live on. Those of us who have been associated with the school, in whatever capacity, must consider ourselves to be privileged to have been part of the Highwood experience.
 

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