It’s leading into one of the best times of year here at Pilgrims’, as gears wind up towards the Christmas events and end of term. The Chamber Choir sang wonderfully at the Kingsgate Christmas lights switch-on last night, having done similarly for the city’s lights ceremony last week, and this morning saw some excellent performances in the chill for our Promenade Concert. Very well done to all the boys involved and for the fundraising achieved! 

Our Headmaster is encouraging our boys to pick up a good read over the half term break.

This week we mark World Poetry Day, a reminder that poetry is not merely a matter of rhyme and rhythm but, at its best, of a certain human truth. One of the risks of viewing poetry solely through the familiar lens of the Romantics is that it can appear to idealise life, polishing experience into something unnaturally smooth and harmonious.

Well – fully and properly – a very warm welcome back (or welcome!) to everyone in our community, with just over a week gone since the start of term.

Farewell to our long standing Director of Sport

A couple of short hours ago, the Year 8 boys returned still streaked with Devon mud, tired but buzzing, unloading their bags with the weary pride of the school’s veterans returning from a campaign. Mount Kelly - our well-established Year 8 residential destination - has once again worked its special, boggy magic!