Spring Term - thoughts and dates

The Spring Term in Burr

We are planning a theatre trip at the start of next term – we’re all going to the Royal Albert Hall for see the Cirque du Soleil’s show Quidam, on Sunday 11 Jan. I’ve always wanted to see them live, having caught other shows on TV, and everyone who’s seen them tells me it will be wonderful. I’m afraid there will be a charge of around £45.


So I hope everyone will be in for the first weekend. That’s the only complete weekend – but on Sunday 1st Feb I hope that all boarders will be back for a special service at 1930, marking the memory of the Holocaust. A few years ago I visited the memorial near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin – an extraordinary attempt to do justice to the scale of the crime.


Sundays in Burr are now supervised by a team of Housemasters, and Saturday and Sunday nights either by myself, Mr Rich Starr the Resident Tutor, or Mr Kevin Dolan, the Senior Tutor. I’m always grateful to parents who let me know by Thursday of any special plans for weekends: I need to share this information with my colleagues. At the other end of the scale is the wonderful Mum (I will not name her even under torture) who texted me half an after bedtime one Sunday to let me know her son would not be coming back until the following morning. I was then able to recall the search parties and stand down the helicopter.