News from Mr Grady
Hello everyone!
I hope that the summer-like weather is allowing you all to stay positive this week. It's certainly meant that I can barely hear myself think for all the lawn-mowing going on in my village. Everyone appears to have launched into a variety of "keep busy" tasks, and there is much car-washing, window-cleaning and general business in my village at the moment. I suspect it's the same for everyone - we've all immediately thought about daily exercise regimes and so-on.
I think I've been pretty honest about my capacity to stick at things on a schedule previously in this newsletter, and so I have not even bothered trying to convince myself that I will do a daily exercise regime, or anything like that, as I know it will only frustrate me as I inevitably don't stick to it.
Once again, I feel someone somewhere is going to be concerned about a head teacher setting a low-bar, but as we know at Rugby High School, we have set heights in our hearts, and in order to set heights I mine, I know I need to know myself. So, although I know I won't stick to daily exercise, what I have done is promised myself that I will not get snappy with either our two cats or my wife. As we linger inside for the next few weeks, I'll take every moment where I feel like getting snappy, pause, breathe and consider what the impact of that snappiness will be.
I'm not saying I'll be some sort of Zen-Master of calm, but, I know in order to do the very best for my family, and myself and indeed my work, remaining calm, and measured and taking care to monitor my own emotions will ensure that I can achieve everything I need to over the next few weeks.
I hope you're staying safe and well, wherever you are,
Best wishes,
Mr Grady