Author Archives: jameswilding

It is difficult to find scientists from the past who capture the imagination as much as Albert Einstein (his quote leads this post); his renowned intelligence, his originality and his creativity set him above and apart from his peers, truly … Continue reading →

Great OECD report on what they feel countries need to do.  Read that here – http://goo.gl/1KlEB.  What a shame Mr Gove doesn’t read the Guardian. Literally having just commenced a new series of GCSE syllabi following governmental disquiet about the … Continue reading →

When I first became the leader of Claires Court Senior Boys school, my title was Master-in-charge.  My father was my boss; four years previously, he had detached himself off up to Ridgeway to establish a separate space for the education … Continue reading →

So which will stop first, the rain, or the bad news about Banking or the frantic pace of speculative change in Education? OK, for those that don’t like rhetorical questions, we can dispense with the first; as that fine upstanding … Continue reading →

As readers of my first Principal’s Blog of June will know, this sceptred Isle is doing my head in at present, what with ‘the rain that raineth every day’. How on earth is a child to learn to value the … Continue reading →

I studied Twelfth Night for my English Literature O’ Level extermination back in the day. That was the first time I was introduced to the heroic nature of clowns & fools, who are it must be said obligatory characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Now I am not going to bore … Continue reading →

I have been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently, in part because my time has been filled with some quite extraordinary school-based activity. Now that’s not just the usual business of school, busy every day clearly, and now … Continue reading →