Stade de France breaks into full voice for Edith Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien'. After turbocharging France to their first gold medal of Paris, Antoine Dupont regrets absolutely nothing about switching to sevens. The perfect soundtrack for a perfect moment #PARIS2024 🎵
It has been brought to this author’s attention that perhaps it is time to unmask the newest suitor of the marriage mart… Benedict Bridgerton's story is coming next season.
Wishing all our Ambrosian community a happy and restful summer.
Key dates:
A level results - 15/8/24
GCSE results - 22/8/24
Y7/12 return to school - 4/9/24
Y8/9/10/11/13 return to school - 5/9/24
Read the final newsletter of the academic year here:
https://t.co/DlHHeMKZmb
Daley Thompson doc on @BBCiPlayer is fabulous. Basically raised himself from the age of 7 and his mother never once came to watch him. Yet became the greatest athlete the world has ever seen. From Notting Hill. Proper West London (with a touch of Richard Pryor).
Respect.
English Association slams GCSE as "not fit for purpose" in scathing report which outlines how the current specifications are "narrow in content" and "let down students".
It's no secret that English teachers and university English departments point the finger at the controversial GCSEs directly for slowly destroying the subject from KS3 to higher education.
Full report here: https://t.co/cOPmbUYH0w
@EnglishAssoc
What a beautiful Mass for our new Year 7 students, attended by so many parents and carers! It was wonderful to see students reading, serving and joining in the singing!
There’s a breath of fresh air breezing through the hills and rocky escarpments of Basilicata, in the far south of Italy. It’s a pale blue miniature bus, a tiny, tiny vehicle loaded with books. It’s probably the smallest mobile library in the world.
The driver is Antonio La Cava, a retired teacher, who decided to convert his Ape 3-wheeler van (Ape is Italian for bee) into a book repository that he could drive around his region calling at isolated and out-of-the-way villages and inviting the local children to borrow or even be given the book of their choice.
Having retired from teaching after 42 years he felt there was still more that he could do when helping children to discover the joy of books and the written word.
A baby chimp was born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had trouble getting oxygen so had to be kept at the vet. This is a clip of mom reuniting with her baby after almost 2 days apart.