Spring is springing and the sap is rising. New green buds are appearing everywhere so I feel I should shake off my winter sloth and start writing this blog again.
Actually, at a recent staff meeting it was suggested that we should start up the newsletter again but put it on-line. Rather than do that I thought it might be better to resurrect the blog and try to attract a few more readers (normally only two people ever bother to read it!)
Lots has happened since my last post and over the next few days I will refer to some of the events of the past few months.
But I will start with yesterday, when the Coutanchez building was officially 35 years old. It was opened on 17 March, 1976 by the then Bailiff, Sir John Loveridge.
The first Principal of the College, Charles Hunt, and the then Director of Education, Mike Hutchings, were both at the opening ceremony.
So yesterday, to mark the occasion, I invited them, along with Ann, Mike’s wife, to lunch in the College Restaurant. Whilst enjoying the excellent food, they reminisced about the good old days, when curriculum initiatives came along every few years rather than every month. They asked lots of questions about the developments in the College and were very interested in the way the College had grown over the past ten years.
Charles asked after many of the staff he remembers from his time as Principal and was extremely delighted to meet some of them who popped in to see him whilst he was in the restaurant.
Both Charles and Mike thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was great to see them both. Who knows – in a few years time, when I am retired, I might get to be invited to the opening of the new College. Then again, it may be to the 50th birthday of the Coutanchez building!
