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Credit where credit is due…

Posted on 25/09/2012 by jameswilding

Katherine Grainger was amazing at our Speech Day last week.  I don’t say this because as a 2012 Olympian, her story of a journey through 3 previous Olympics and umpteen world championships was incredible. It is, partly because in  becoming … Continue reading →

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Good grief, it’s Gove-levels in 2015-17

Posted on 17/09/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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“Once more into the breach, dear friends once more…”

Posted on 10/09/2012 by jameswilding

It has been a Summer break full of affirmation for those who care about educational principles and practice (amongst so much more), thanks in the main (but not exclusively) to the Olympics and Paralympics.  The grand plans laid by umpteen … Continue reading →

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And out of the order came chaos…(part 1)

Posted on 13/07/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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The Rain it Raineth and Raineth and …(part 3)

Posted on 02/07/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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The rain it raineth every day (part 2)…

Posted on 11/06/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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And the rain it raineth every day…(part 1)

Posted on 11/06/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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Making sense of the noise…and building a better curriculum for the future.

Posted on 23/05/2012 by jameswilding

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 →

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#purposedu – my reason to go to work!

Posted on 08/05/2012 by jameswilding

I own and lead a full range all-ability school of 1000 pupils, sitting in that part of the eastern Thames Valley known as the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. I believe the purpose of education is to provide for … Continue reading →

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World Meningitis Day – Tuesday 24 April

Posted on 20/04/2012 by jameswilding

At our senior boys’ school, one of the four houses is known as Kelly House, named after Edward Kelly, who died aged 14 on 13th February 1996 of Meningitis. Edward’s health had been compromised at a much younger age by a digestive … Continue reading →

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