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  Join the whole WPNY community as we attempt to collectively complete 1 million seconds of physical activity in a single day on Thursday, May 21st.

This week has been a busy one at Virtual School. Rehearsals for our virtual ‘Bee – the Musical’ are well underway, International Jazz Day was very well received by our whole school community last Thursday and we are looking forward to our virtual ‘Mothers and Loved Ones’ tea parties this Friday across the school. Last…

Today marks the Day 17 milestone of Virtual Learning at WPNY. Honestly, well done. As each day passes, we are all starting to master a new way of living and learning and I commend us all for the way we are collectively choosing to navigate these unpredictable waters. At times like this, the importance of…

This time last year, in April 2019, if anyone had predicted where I would be writing my first Summer Term 2020 Wetherbridge article, I may well have smiled and shrugged it off. However, as we know, circumstances often have an agenda of their own and no amount of planning can predict all eventualities and set…

Welcome back to you all! As blog is posted today, my dedicated team are meeting with me on Zoom to launch this new term, armed with creative ideas, final plans and positivity. I am immensely proud of our school community and the teaching and administration team at WPNY are full of their customary professionalism and…

It has certainly been an unconventional and slightly surprising end to the spring term. However, it is during cycles and times like this that communities come together, and new and creative solutions are found for progress. Today is the first day of Spring Break and school is due to re-open again on Monday 30th March….

I was lucky to grow up in a family that loves literature and languages and from an early age my father owned a small bookshop on Regent’s Street in London, called ‘Bookends’. I can remember the excitement I felt when I visited the shop and the children’s section was designed as a World of Beatrix…

I am writing this week’s article ahead of my termly visit to London. Whilst I look forward to seeing my London colleagues, the Head Office Team and recruiting new pools of teaching talent to the school, it often follows that the day before I leave is often one of the best here in New York!…

We have been talking a lot about leadership and personal role models recently. Sir Ernest Shackleton seems to have captured the imagination of your children in the last few weeks. His intrepid expeditions in 1914-16 highlight an extraordinary leader and visionary, despite many thinking his mission was a colossal failure. His sense of endurance knew…