Quizzes
This week saw the latest instalment of our fruitful partnership with Reading School as 40 mere muggles from LIV to Sixth Form took part in…
The Journey of Life
‘The journey of life may be easy, may be hard.’ So starts one of the Junior School students’ favourite hymns. How can we prepare young…
What makes The Abbey
What is it that lends The Abbey its identity? To use a lovely and neglected word: what is The Abbey’s quiddity - literally its ‘whatness’ -…
The Journey
A lasting memory I have from our family summer break is in a canoe. Bodhi and I were racing my daughters around Lake Windermere, in…
Space ships, time machines, teachers, friends and gateways
The title comes from a letter that writer and professor of Biochemistry Isaac Asimov sent to celebrate the opening of a new library in…
What we aspire to be
Welcome back! The start of a new school year is always a time of such possibility, even if the sun isn’t always shining quite this…
Prom or Ball?
Prom? Ball? What’s the actual difference, and does it matter?
Farewell
Wednesday was National Thank a Teacher Day. I hope some of my colleagues received a note of appreciation.
Transformative Landscapes
When I was growing up in Surrey, long before I crossed the Atlantic and eventually joined an industry which took me to every part of the…
The memory project
What is the value of Pi to 16 decimal places? The answer is 3.1415926535897932, which is Pi expressed with sufficient accuracy for the…