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We Thrive: our whole school pastoral programme that aims to ensure that NULS’ culture is kind, supportive and consistently celebrates our pupils’ individuality and diversity.
In our Spring 2026 newsletter we highlighted our school’s reflections for World Holocaust Day, explored how our pupils navigate “digital footprints” and shared highlights from our vibrant World Book Day celebrations. We also took a closer look at how our PSHE curriculum equips students with the essential skills that they will need to flourish.
Our full Spring 2026 newsletter is available to read here.
Learn more about We Thrive and explore our archived newsletters.
On 27 January, our Senior School and Sixth Form came together to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day.
This year’s theme was “Bridging Generations” and our pupils reflected as our Sixth Form Head Boy and Girl, Nikhil and Tessa, were joined by our Prep School Head Boy and Girl, Thomas and Emily to light lamps of remembrance.
In an incredibly emotive moment for our school community, Olivia from our Sixth Form played “Song Without Words, Op. 19b No. 1” by Mendelssohn to accompany the lighting of the lamps.
Internet safety is a key feature of form and PSHE time as we look to guide our young people. During Safer Internet Day, Mr Lunt spoke and advised pupils about their digital footprint.
Mr Lunt reminded pupils about their digital footprints and that future employers could “Google” their name which could include references to late night comments, “disappearing” snaps and “likes”.
Guidance resources for parents are available in the Spring newsletter.
Our whole school embraced World Book Day on 5 March.
Mrs Sajid, our LRC Manager hid 85 books around the school and pupils from Year 7 to 13 enjoyed searching around to find the books to take home and enjoy. Mrs Sajid also organised a competition for pupils to write about a book that they were reading and enjoying. Congratulations to Lydia (Y7) and Annabel (Y13) who won the competition.
Our Prep pupils visited their wonderful library for a jam-packed schedule of literary fun which included book quizzes, library scavenger hunts and story time in the cosy corner.
During his February assemblies, Mr Bousfield talked about one of our School’s core values – respect.
Respect and kindness (another one of our school’s values) have been key themes throughout the Spring term assemblies and Heads of Year have encouraged their year groups to reflect on how they treat eachother.
Every week pupils in all year groups have a PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) lesson which covers a wide range of topics to help pupils to develop key life skills.
Our PSHE programme follows the PSHE Association’s curriculum and our lessons are enhanced with bespoke sessions tailored to the evolving needs of each year group. Topics have included making healthy choices and relationships (Year 7), career choices (Year 8), peer influence and online safety (Year 9), managing stress (Year 10) and inclusivity, consent and relationships (Year 11).
Pupils’ wellbeing is an important part of life at our school. In school we have a trained pastoral team and Mr Bousfield and Mrs Simms are fully trained as Mental Health First Aiders, in addition to Mrs Egan and Mr Massey both Emotional Literacy Support Assistants (ELSA).
This term we have also set up “Time to Talk” – lunchtime sessions led by our trained Sixth Form peer mentors. The sessions are held in our recently refurbished Wellbeing Room and are there to support pupils who would benefit from the guidance of our peer mentors.
Louis Bond: “The site of the camp was much larger than I had ever expected. Much of the camp was destroyed, but there were the cabin like structures at the front of the complex which were tiny in comparison to the number of people who were forced to stay in them. At the rear of the
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