Category Archives: Possibly related posts

So much of what we do in Education is ‘Lost in translation’, such that nice ideas get completely ruined when well meaning ‘experts’ turn them from an inspiring notion to a received wisdom that everyone has to follow and then … Continue reading →

In the main, this week’s post are not my words. I have encountered a remarkable cartoon film (see bottom of the blog), which captures the essence of the world’s ills in 26 letters of the Alphabet. What’s even more remarkable, … Continue reading →

The following article is written to sit alongside a variety of secondary and sixth form assemblies I am giving currently about the rights of man and the needs for a civil society, and that they are not perhaps the same. “Wherever law ends, … Continue reading →

The graph above identifying the arrival of the term ‘screenager’ in literature shows just how modern a term it is. The peak in the early noughties might be attributable to the popularity of the band ‘Muse’ and their song of the … Continue reading →

The human genome is a remarkable set of instructions that assists in enabling us humans to live in many climates, on many foodstuffs and to survive the predations of disease organisms large and small.  We know a vast amount about the human … Continue reading →

  At the end of my Sixth Form days, L.P.Hartley’s book, ‘The Go-between’, was made into a stunning film with its stars being the adorable Julie Christie and Alan Bates, adults in secret love linked by Leo Colston, their child … Continue reading →

When the Varkey Gems Foundation first announced the ‘Global Teacher Prize‘ in 2014, I for one was a little underwhelmed by the prospect. Given the nature of the world in crisis I thought, why focus on ‘teachers’ rather than perhaps … Continue reading →

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 →