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 Beyond the Breaking Point: Concluding 2025 and Challenges Ahead in 2026.

Another year closes, and the festive flurry attempts to cloak the underlying tension and exhaustion that have permeated the English education system. As the clock ticks down to 2025, many of us in schools, whether we are Principals, teachers, or … Continue reading

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Claires Court: Resilience, Vision, and Futures 2025

As we reflect on the past year and look towards the promising horizon of “Claires Court Futures 2025,” it is with immense pride and profound gratitude that we present this annual report. Claires Court’s journey has always been one of … Continue reading

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Acts of Purpose – why teachers come to school.

It’s a year since our PTA AGM 2024, and we’ve just held our update for 2025. Over the past 12 months, during one of the more unstable periods of world history I’ve experienced, I’ve significantly changed my focus as a … Continue reading

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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

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Why is Curiosity central to better learning?

The wide-ranging debate on identifying effective teaching is inspiring. What concerns me is the disconnect between each year. Children can have 5 years of primary education with admired teachers in each year, yet seem to join secondary school having lost … Continue reading

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