Tower and Town, November 2020 (view the full edition)EditorialIt has been a year like no other for our students at St. John’s in Marlborough. COVID-19 has turned worlds upside down, uprooted us, and brought with it a new and challenging normality. The routine of school was broken and replaced with months of working from home, with new limits placed on students’ lives. In this month’s edition of Tower and Town, I am proud to be able to showcase some of the writing our students have produced during recent months; their experiences multifarious and their writing equally so. For the readers of Tower and Town, I hope the writing in this edition offers an insight into what this historic time has been like for our young people. These pages capture a myriad of feeling; their writing is ponderous and introspective, aware of rising anxieties and growing frustration, full of longing and loss and gratitude. I too am grateful. I am grateful to Tower and Town for carrying the voices of our students into the local community, and grateful to my fabulous student contributors, whose writing has been an undaunted light for me amidst the pandemic. More of our students’ writing will be printed in Writing While the World Stands Still an anthology of writing produced by students of St. John’s Marlborough during lockdown. If you are interested in getting hold of this anthology, please do get in touch with me (lsankey@stjohns.excalibur.org.uk). Beyond this, you might take a look at our award-winning Newspaper, The Granham Gazette accessible through the school’s website, in which our students continue to reflect and report on their ever-changing world. Lauren Sankey |