The new team will introduce themselves to our families formally in due course, but some of you will already have had the pleasure of meeting some of them at Thursday’s Spring Collective. They are fizzing with ideas, with the new House Leaders busy putting the Houses through their paces for the House Singing Competition and the new SSLT planning a Summer Charity Picnic and Gala for students. Watch this space!
As part of this handover, we held a celebratory “thank you” lunch for our outgoing team this Friday, which was also an opportunity for the incoming Year 12s to be welcomed to their roles and to share ideas and experiences. I may occasionally have had to skip a song playing in the background, but there was a lovely atmosphere to celebrate the hard work of the Year 13 students in leading our school community so ably.
In exchange for pizzas and cookies, they also shared their thoughts on what leadership has meant to them. I was struck by the way they understood leadership to be a matter of service and developing positive, supportive relationships. They identified that their positions of responsibility had given them valuable opportunities, but that, as much as anything, leadership had meant giving others, especially in the younger years, opportunities to grow and develop. I was left feeling that the High School’s students are in good hands now and that the students leaving the High School will no doubt make their mark on the institutions that they will be joining next year. Best of luck to them all!
Mr Viesel
Director of Sixth Form
The week ahead
Monday 24 March
Netball: U12A/B v Akeley Wood School
Tuesday 25 March
NHS Dance Festival
Wednesday 26 March
Year 12 Parents’ Evening
Thursday 27 March
Reach Lecture
UKMT Team Maths Challenge in Milton Keynes
Football: U13A/U12A v Akeley Wood School
Year 7 Showcase
Examination Performance Recital
Friday 28 March
Astroturf Grand Opening Event
Book Review: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
Recommended for Year 9 and above – Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: feckless, jobless, in need of a distraction.
Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads.
They’re fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food.
And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry.
It’s audacious. It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life – love, friendship, art itself – it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of.
What could possibly go wrong?
Spring Collective Art Exhibition
A huge congratulations to all the girls from Year 5 to Year 13 who submitted their incredible artwork for the Spring Collective Art Exhibition! Your creativity, talent, and hard work truly shone through. Each piece was unique and inspiring, and you should all be incredibly proud of your contributions. Thank you for sharing your artistic vision with us. Also, thank you to all who have bought pieces and attended the event. Should any students wish to visit the exhibition, it will be running at breaks and lunchtimes until Thursday 27 March.
Music Scholars’ Concert
A huge congratulations to the students who performed in the Music Scholars’ Concert.
It was a wonderful afternoon of live music and vocals during lunchtime from guitarists to pianists, saxophonists to violinists and singers to flautists; we are extremely lucky to have such amazingly talented musicians at our school.
An update on Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Attached is a copy of the presentation slides from the recent SENDIASS Coffee Morning, led by Nikki Taylor, the Manager of the West Northants SEND Information Advisory Service (IAS). Nikki has given her permission for these to be shared.
Additionally, Nikki has clarified the status of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) that may apply to some parents of children with SEN.
Parents may be eligible for Disability Living Allowance. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a Non-Means tested benefit available to families to help with additional costs of looking after a child who is under 16 and has difficulties walking or requires much more looking after than a child of the same age who does not have a disability. Applications for DLA are made online at https://www.gov.uk/disability-living-allowance-children Nikki advises that for benefit queries, parents may wish to contact Community Law
Mrs Beezley
Learning Enhancement Coordinator
Neurodiversity Week
For Neurodiversity Week, the students have been fundraising and raising awareness throughout the school.
Our FemSoc Club ran a raffle to raise money, and the whole school had a mufti-day last Friday raising more money for our chosen charity ‘Daisy Chain’.
In Senior School, the students during their form times coloured in umbrellas this week to be displayed in Mrs Beezley’s office, which look wonderful.
A huge well done to everyone involved in the activities this week!
To donate to our Neurodiversity Week, please see here.
Student Senior Leadership Team
We’re delighted to announce our brand new Head Girl Team who were recently elected following a whole school vote!
A huge congratulations to the successful applicants who will take their place on Northampton High School’s Student Senior Leadership Team 2025-2026.
We cannot wait to hear about all their new ideas and watch them make their mark whilst being exceptional role models for our pupils!
Also, a huge thank you to the previous Student Senior Leadership Team for all your hard work during your time as part of the team.
This Week's Sports
Throughout this week there have been multiple sports fixtures, ranging from netball to gymnastics. Read below to find out how the matches went, and more about this weeks fixtures.
