13th September 2024

Dear Michael Hall Community,

What a great start to the term! Bare walls are starting to be filled with children's beautiful artistic work as we are all settling into a new school rhythm. We are already looking ahead to our Michaelmas celebration, which is a much enjoyed work day, a solid feature in our yearly festival calendar. Already we can see leaves turning into their beautiful rustic oranges, reds, yellows and brown hues reminding us that summer is fading as Autumn mists appear. I am reminded of the beautiful Autumnal poem by Keats, which I'm sure many of you will know.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Jacqueline Courtenay
Head of Lower and Middle School. 

This year, as part of our centenary at Michael Hall we will be celebrating our Alumni, featuring those who have spent some or all of their school life at our wonderful school! We have started this page on our website and will build it up over the year. If you are an Alumnus of Michael Hall and would like to be featured please complete this form: https://www.michaelhall.co.uk/alumni-feature-form

Sammy Rolston - Class 1 assistant

Hi Michael Hall! I am Sammy, the new teaching assistant for Class 1. In essence, I'm basically just a kid who is curious about this wonderful Waldorf world and so I have taken a placement year from university in Southampton to come and live the experience. I traverse life just doing my best to be myself and trying to help others realise their passions. Some of my main/current interests include being an avid footballer, a novice alchemist and a desperate listener. I would love to come to a deep understanding of this place and its people during my short tenure, so if you ever have something you want to be heard I'd love to be your listener :)

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