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Mr. Wright is currently the Deputy Headmaster and Director of Studies at St. Piran's School in Maidenhead, Berkshire , where he has been for the past five years. St. Piran's is an I.A.P.S. Independent Preparatory School with 370 pupils. He has played a key role in successfully guiding St. Piran's through its recent Inspection.

Eighteen months ago Ryan Jervis head teacher of Adcote School, a small private girls school on the outskirts of Shrewsbury approached a number of local state schools to see if they would welcome a joint venture in fast tracking some children wanting to start their A-level courses early.

Last weekend a team from Adcote School competed for the first time in the Girls Independent School Gymnastic Association national championships in Guildford, Surrey. The competition sees teams from all around the world competing together in a number of different gymnastic routines.

In the Under 13's group Adcote faced opposition from some very large and established gym schools but following outstanding performances from all five of their gymnasts, the school was placed 4th overall out of 18 teams. For this part of the competition the girls had to complete a voluntary floor routine, a set floor routine and 2 types of vaults. They also completed a group routine and were placed 3rd.

This is a tremendous result for first timers and the school is already looking forward to the competition next year.

Last Sunday, Adcote attended the 6th ISA National Gymnastics Championships held at Fenton Manor. The team of 6 girls had to take part in 4 gymnastic disciplines, set vault, voluntary vault, set floor and voluntary floor. It is a very demanding competition and we were delighted with fourth place in the team competition and a silver medal for the runner up of the individual national gymnastics, which was presented to Year 5 pupil Laura Brown.

The team are being coached by Jason Tucker who was a Floor and Vault specialist and who competed for Wales and Great Britain both in European Championships and Commonwealth Games.

Hatchers Solicitors in conjunction with Cornwall Street Chambers, Shrewsbury - Mock Trial Competition

Pupils from Adcote attended this prestigious competition for the first time on Saturday 22 November.  We took part in two trials against Priory School and the Blessed Robert Johnson.  The pupils performed the roles of jury, usher, clerk, court reporter, witnesses, defendant and barristers.  Each trial and each role was marked by a real trial judge.

Mrs Gilly Hartley and Will Stop from the NSPCC visited Adcote on Thursday 13th November to say thank you to all the girls on the Junior school for raising £319.24 in their recent Numberthon challenge.

Not content with this, Adcote Juniors have also once again been collecting a huge amount of toy filled shoe boxes for Charity. Operation Christmas Child is run by the Salvation Army, and every year they ask for people to donate one shoe box filled with toys for less fortunate boys and girls around the world. The Adcote girls found the idea of helping less fortunate people appealing and have spared no effort to get together as many boxes as possible. Well Done!

A second Gold medal has been won by Adcote School at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, hot on the heels of their RHS silver gilt medal at Malvern. Adcote gardeners have previously won a gold medal at the Shewsbury Flower Show with their first garden in 2006.

Gymnasts from Adcote School for Girls are celebrating again after returning with armfuls of medals from the weekend's competition. Organised by the Midlands Independent School Gymnastics Association (MISGA), and held at the Blue Coat School in Edgebaston, the competition involved girls of all ages from independent schools across the region.

Following their annual open garden and fete, Adcote School for Girls has raised over £850 for the charity 'Help for Heroes'.

Adcote School gardeners are celebrating again, having just collected a Silver Gilt award for their latest show garden at the prestigious Malvern Spring Garden Show last week. This year the school was sponsored by the West Mercia Police as part of the constabulary's 40th birthday celebrations. The girls created two gardens, the first set in 1967 featuring a rockery, crazy paving and lots of bright annuals.

Adcote gymnast Harriet Shakeshaft is celebrating, having been placed first in the West Midlands under 13 novice gymnastics competition at the weekend. On Sunday 4th May Harriet travelled to Worcester with the Border Counties Gym club to compete against fifty other girls for the West Midlands championship. In the four part competition Harriet was placed first in the floor exercise and third on the bars. She then did well enough in the vault and the beam to be the overall winner in her age group. Harriet said, "It was just amazing to win, competing against so many other gymnasts."

Harriet is now looking forward to competing in the Midlands Independent Schools Gymnastics Association competition at the end of June with the rest of her team from Adcote.

On May 3rd pupils from Adcote School performed at the prestigious Albert Hall in London. As part of the larger 'Steps' dance company, twelve students performed 'Defying Gravity' from the musical Wicked.