Isn’t it funny how young people educate you. Our ‘boys’, they are 22 and 20 respectively,
have been doing so for a number of years.
A few years ago, they introduced me to ‘Vampire Weekend’ and I love
their music. Whilst travelling in to
work today, I heard a track titled, “Unbelievers”. Words from this song resonated about our
college:
“I’m not excited, but should I be?
Is this the fate that half the world has planned for me?”
In the last five weeks, I have been to a number of meetings
in Yorkshire, Birmingham and London.
During each of these meetings, a range of people have come over to me to
congratulate us on our excellent Ofsted report and all have said that we were
very ‘unlucky’ not to receive a ‘straight’ outstanding judgement. The comment from Tiger Woods, (I believe Gary
Player first said it), when asked if he had got ‘lucky again’, made me
smile. He said, “Isn’t it funny but the
more I practise, the ‘luckier’ I get”.
Yes, we know that there are many things that we can do to
make us even better but it has been an amazing year so far:
·
the best set of results achieved at Wyke and the
resultant points scores which will be published in the performance league table
in January;
·
an excellent enrolment;
·
a very, very good Ofsted inspection;
·
buoyant applications for 2014-2015;
·
a brand new building with a Performance and
Fitness Studio which will be available for use on the 6th January.
So we should be excited and the words of the Lead Inspector
in October come back to me:
“Don’t be content with being in the top 10% of colleges
nationally, Jay. Wyke SFC could become
one of the top colleges in the country.”
Clearly, the last week of term and the build-up to Christmas
is always hectic. I would like to thank
you for the tremendous work that has been done this term and for being so
understanding during the ‘new building’ process.
Next term promises to be equally exciting. Have a brilliant Christmas and New Year, come
back safely and be prepared for the critical Mock examinations in January. It will be an excellent indication how you
are likely to do in June 2014.
Best Wishes.
Jay
