“Out of the Darkness, Into the Light: The Time before Christmas is the Time of Light and mutual Love.” –  Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It was a pleasure to welcome our Whole School Chaplain Ms Hadwin to lead an assembly this week. In it she talked of the challenge of waiting and the meaning of Advent in preparing for Christmas.On Wednesday, in her assembly, Mrs Dent shared her joy of Dylan Thomas’ magnum opus – ‘Under Milkwood’. In recalling scenes and events from childhood Christmases, Thomas reminds us that lifelong memories are often made when we are children, and recalled and drawn upon throughout our lives. He also highlights the elusive nature of some of these memories – ‘I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.’ It matters not, of course, whether it was 6 days or 12, what Thomas is recalling is the sense of it snowing and snowing – It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers.