Author Archives: jameswilding

Just a short blog for the mo’ to explain what has happened to the previous Principled View, ‘down a woodland track’.  Like previous pictures that illustrate my blog, the trees and paths were not part of CCS’ educational journey, just appropriate illustrations for my … Continue reading →

It is not quite the season to be jolly.  As all who live and work in schools now, we teachers are seasonal creatures, driven be calendar and event more than most, able to ride the various winds that blow, and … Continue reading →

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 →