I really enjoyed our two assemblies last week, one taken by Miss O’Hare and one by Mr Duncombe.

I remember Miss O’Hare when she was here at school and it was lovely to listen to her memories of school days.  I’m delighted she is going to be a teacher.  Very few girls seem to want to teach when they leave school – I wonder why?? – but it seems as though when they have been away from schools for a bit, quite a number do decide it might be just the career for them.  I am always so pleased when this happens because not only do I think teaching is the most satisfying career in the world but I think KEHS girls will make wonderful teachers because they have the example of their own fantastic teachers to look back on!

Mr Duncombe decided that as he was new to KEHS, an assembly would be an excellent means of introducing himself to us all.  And what better way to tell us about his life than to produce his totally captivating one year old daughter, Francesca.  We learnt that charming though she was, she and her elder brother were keeping their father awake at nights, preventing him playing and watching sport, limiting his social life and outings dramatically and that the two of them meant life was no longer the carefree romp it once was!  When confronted with the devastation she can create, Francesca seemed unrepentant and far more interested in trying to catch hold of the microphone and wave at her large audience than indicating that she intended to make less demands on her poor father!  But this was not a talk to put girls off ever having children, because Mr Duncombe reassured us that choosing to have a family was the best choice he had ever made.

Both Miss O’Hare and Mr Duncombe were talking about what KEHS stands for.  Miss O’Hare said that it was community service and fundraising events that had stayed most in her and her friends’ minds, a stress on the importance of relationships build on care for other people and Mr Duncombe reminded us that school is about qualities and states of mind-serenity, wisdom and courage; qualities that will stay with us forever and help with the big decisions in life.

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