Our Spring Concert is always a bittersweet occasion as it's when we say goodbye to our Y13 Leavers. This year's event was particularly poignant for Mrs Ward as these musicians were her first GCSE class on arriving at Tormead three years ago. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to see them grow in confidence and musicianship, to see them playing the lead roles in High School Musical, and to watch their wonderful solos at a concert which showcased all of Tormead's ensembles. We are extremely proud of everything they have achieved and everything that they will go on to achieve – congratulations Amelie, Bethany, Femi, Jess, Lydia, Jasmine, Natalie and Miles.

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Our Year 4 girls had a fabulous time on their residential trip to Cuffley Active Learning Centre. They were all very brave when climbing and doing the gladiator challenge, along with enjoying singing songs with their teachers between activities. A particular highlight was orienteering, which saw each group sprinting up and down hills using all of the land at Cuffley aiming to be the first to finish. It was impressive to see the teamwork, kindness and joy each child brought to the trip. Staff at Cuffley also said that we were one of the best-behaved schools they had ever come across. Well done Year 4!

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We celebrated the end of the Spring Term with our annual House Music competition. Our special guest, Christopher Wray from the Thames Valley Gay Chorus had the rather difficult job of judging the event, which this year was themed around diversity and inclusion. Each House was judged on both a large group song and a small group song (less than 15 people). While they waited for the judge's decision, pupils had great fun guessing the identity of the teachers in The Masked Singer competition which saw Lobster taking to the barricades and Scruffy Cat asking us not to Look Back in Anger.

Livingstone were the winners of the House Song category, donning their sunglasses and tropical flowers to sing El Mismo Sol (Alvaro Soler) as well as signing the entire song in British Sign Language. Wellington won the small group category with their beautiful rendition of Stand Up by Joshua Campbell and @CynthiaErivo with the talented Miss Parry and Mr Wilkinson joining the Wellington instrumentalists.

Congratulations to Livingstone who took home the overall prize for the event, and whose summery garb set the tone perfectly to lead us into the new term.

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