Month: May 2020

On Sunday 23rd February four Year 9 students embarked on the first leg of their Australian exchange with students from Carey Grammar School, Melbourne. The first leg was to be a six week stay with their exchange partners (Benjamin, Lucy, Mia and Lucy) and host families out in Australia; they departed with much excitement and…

Nothing quite makes you want to ponder your life’s philosophy like an international lockdown and a crisis in the form of a pandemic. Now, more than ever, people are struggling to come to terms with their place in this world and have turned to philosophy for help. Publishers reported a sales boom in novels about fictional…

Year 13 A Level student Haleem Clift has been recognised for his acting talent after being chosen to join the National Youth Theatre (NYT). The 18-year-old who joined Taunton School in the sixth form was selected out of thousands of entries across the UK. Haleem, who is a Taunton School Patrons’ Programme bursary recipient commented:…

The Taunton School Music Department have managed to produce an incredible large-scale choir performance remotely with over 60 singers in spite of lockdown measures. Director of Music Mark Cracknell and his team have been holding virtual rehearsals for the past three weeks with the School’s Community Choir – a group which includes students, staff and…

The Co-Curricular element of the school is still thriving, even though operating remotely. The school community is still able to come together with Headmaster’s assemblies and chapels uploaded onto TEAMs and Firefly each week. Whilst not the way we would have liked to present them, congratulations to all students who were awarded colours, contributed to…

Taunton School’s Young Enterprise team have been crowned Winners for Somerset with their eco-friendly edible cup product, “BisCup”. Each year a group of Year 12 business students are invited to set up and run a business as part of the national Young Enterprise scheme. This year, students at Taunton School decided to come up with…

Four weeks into the summer term, many of us have bedded in to our remote school routine. I am fortunate that in many ways my ‘new normal’ is not so very distant from my previous normal. I have been able to be part of Music rehearsals and concerts, the audience for Burke Debates, discussions in Academic and Drama…

In honour of May the Fourth, or ‘Star Wars Day’ as it is humorously known, I feel like I should begin this article with “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…”! This would certainly reflect just how other-worldly the last three weeks have felt for many students, staff and doubtless parents of…