Author Archives: jameswilding

Published today is a defining report published by ISC on the value added that independent schools offer by the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at the University of Durham. As a school, we have been using CEM centre benchmarking tools … Continue reading →

The full quote by Professor Dame Carol Black is: “If you’re leading an organisation, your job is to guide it, care for it, protect it as best you can and try to make sure good things happen to it.”  She … Continue reading →

Just dropped onto my desk is some useful guidance from  the Boarding Schools Association, with regards to the Zika virus, new arrival on the scene as a major health concern across the world. Almost all the major health developments we … Continue reading →

Across the Educational nation as I write, secondary teachers and administrators alike are wrestling with the almost impossible task of migrating GCSE courses measured in letter grades A-G to new programmes of study measured using a 1 to 9 scale. … Continue reading →

I regard the annual DfE publication of results as a remarkable example of misinformation about school performance and travesty of what schools set out to achieve for their pupils.  It gives rise to a genuine feeling amongst educationalists that the … Continue reading →

This blog post summarises my assembly presentation to Senior Boys, itself supported by a Bb-8 and my wife’s light sabre. The Prezi used here – https://prezi.com/qttpeghrcc-_/ In 1969, when David Bowie released his original versions of ‘Space Oddity’, the first … Continue reading →

Let’s face it, dear reader; if there is an ultimately endearing character from the various space and star wars epics, it’s not Chewbacca, or Hans Solo or even R2D2, is it? Thanks for agreeing with me, because Buzz Lightyear wins … Continue reading →

I am indebted to my brother Hugh, fellow Principal at Claires Court for the following post on our Dad, who died on Friday 27 November 2015. David Wilding, who has died aged 89, was, together with his first wife, Josephine, … Continue reading →

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” Abraham Lincoln Since my last blog about the refugee crisis, appalling tragedies in the Lebanon, France and Mali have taken place. Because we hear so often … Continue reading →

For most people wherever they are in the world, this is a time of greater uncertainty than usual. For those of us based in the UK, so long as we stay at home, then perhaps the unexpected is largely explainable. … Continue reading →