• AS parents of Year 11 students at Acland Burghley School, we wanted to express our appreciation and admiration to all of the teachers, support and administrative staff at the school who have been with them every step of the way over the last five years.

Our children all have different needs, different strengths and different aspirations. They have changed so much since they first walked through the gates of the school in September 2012, but the school has been with them throughout that journey, with the right help and support to allow them to become the confident, successful and dynamic young people that they are today.

We are proud of our children and grateful to everyone at Acland Burghley. It is a special school, and a community that has been there for each other in the tough times and has rightly celebrating successes in the good times.

With strong leadership, excellent teachers, and caring staff, we know we have given our children what they need to lead the lives they want, as they begin their journey into adulthood. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Nicholas John and to everyone at Acland Burghley School.

SIGNATORIES: Claire Melamed, John Appleby, Frances Winter, Richard Young, Clare Parry, Fiona Lovering, Jennifer Dobbie, Martin Evans, Katherine Fawsett, Hazel Foreman, Patuni Hedayat, Hilary Kavanaugh, Dermot Kavanaugh, Marie-Anne Tilley, Bark Turk, Chris Turk, Emma Baigneres, Susanna Jacobs, Mina Hunt, Andrea Morreu, Dittany Bak Olesen, Ana Martins Camisuli, Melissa Danbury, Shanti Fricker, Oscar Stevenson, Akikio Tejima, Annabelle Williams, Alex Williams, Yvonne Clyne, Tom Clyne, Guy Massey, Lucy Sayer, John Venning, Avis Venning, Kellie Strom, Lucy Silver Baldwin, Bob Baldwin, Rachel Swainston, Ange Steen