-
Recent Posts
- Beyond the Breaking Point: Concluding 2025 and Challenges Ahead in 2026.
- Lethal Mutations – When the direction of Government Policy is fundamentally flawed
- Surviving Christmas with “All I want for Christmas is you” – Mariah Carey
- BBC Grierson Award 2025, Baftas, Emmys and Oscars – the Parenting effect.
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Archives
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- July 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- September 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
Categories
Meta
Whose reading?
Author Archives: jameswilding
About jameswilding
Academic Principal Claires Court Schools Long term member & advocate of the Independent Schools AssociationAcademic Principal’s Half-Term Report October 2024 – Part 1
After 43 days of the Autumn term, I am delighted to close this half with my first Half-Term report on my sole role as Academic Principal. Below you will find some lovely stories, some examples of #CCMakingHistory, new on our … Continue reading →
Why developing a sense of Agency in children and young people is one of the main purposes of Education.
Over recent years in England and across the Western World, there has developed an epidemic failure of the mental well-being of our children and young people. Employers talk openly about how young graduates entering the workplace have a sense of … Continue reading →
Posted in Possibly related posts
|
Tagged curriculum, education, homeschooling, learning, Teaching
|
Leave a comment
Work in Progress 4 – What the future holds!
This blog is about the research and subsequent efforts I and my colleagues continue to conduct to ensure that ‘why, how and what we do’ works. Circa 30 years ago, the Mast Organisation based in Taplow introduced me to 2 … Continue reading →
Posted in Possibly related posts
|
Tagged education, learning, school, teachers, Teaching
|
Leave a comment
My Week: “Any name in the headlines” as told to Claires Court SchoolTV
This blog is all about the brilliant support work that our SchoolTV service provides. But I can’t help include in these introductory 3 paragraphs that some of the headline leaders in the Press have been having a right go at … Continue reading →
Posted in Possibly related posts
|
Tagged labour-party, news, parliament, politics, uk-politics
|
Leave a comment
“MaidenheadisourCampus” Work in Progress 5 – from August 2019 to September 2024!
Over the past 5 years, as Principals of Claires Court, my brother Hugh and I have sought how best to develop the school, despite the failure of our ‘One Campus’ proposals at the planning and appeal stages in 2019 and … Continue reading →
Work in Progress 3 – Decades of investment in SL6 has helped us become our ‘best selves’!
My blog this week covers: I’ve written many times before that Claires Court is surrounded by many amazing schools, both state and independent. Inevitably, growing up a new private senior school to Sixth Form in 1993 (when boys and girls … Continue reading →
Work in Progress 2 – Integrity above all?
As readers of my previous blog will know, last Thursday I was part of the sector’s deputation at the House of Lords, to support the debate on the Labour Government’s proposals to impose 20% vat on private school fees. Whilst … Continue reading →
Work in Progress – what does a school principal do?
Welcome back all to the Autumn Term 2024. As the Academic Principal of Claires Court, I thought it wise to inform new and existing readers of my role in school, current Work in Progress and the direction and focus on … Continue reading →
Progress over time – ‘What’s Normal for Norfolk’?
I start this blog with confirmation that the school’s students have achieved the best academic results at both A level and GCSE they have ever gained, perhaps excusing some pandemic tweaks of course. Of course there have been disappointments and … Continue reading →
VAT and next steps: an update from ISC
All independent schools are facing the imposition of VAT on the tuition fees they charge parents for the education they provide for their children. As announced by the new Labour government last month, VAT is due to be imposed on … Continue reading →
A Principled view 