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Welcome to Heads' Corner

Whether the written word, or a video address, Mr le Fleming and Ms Kaura share their latest thoughts with our community

Heads' video address

Question Time

In October 2020 Will le Fleming and Nisha Kaura hosted a ‘Heads’ Question Time’ where they answered questions submitted by students. Below are the recordings of their responses:

Abbey: Connected

Each week, Abbey staff provide their reflections on a wide range of issues that affect education, the UK and the wider world. Click the button below to read through the library of articles.

4 November 2022

Ideas + Passion

A major element of The Abbey’s curriculum is all the activity we are bringing together under our Ideas + Passion Programme: the wonderful, myriad and diverse paths of learning, guided by sheer…

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20 October 2022

I contain multitudes

This heavily memed mantra of the Internet age originates from American poet Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself, 51’. The poem’s most famous line - keeping the American essayist and journalist Whitman…

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14 October 2022

The power of humility

Girls don’t want to be leaders. So ran a headline in The Observer last Sunday, based on a survey of 1,358 girls aged from 9-18. ‘The #girlboss has lost her lustre’, the piece went on, pointing out…

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7 October 2022

An opportunity, a solace, a thrill

I have always loved the back-to-school rituals of the autumn term. They present a blank slate, full of promise. As students, we move into a new class, with new teachers and the possibility of new…

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30 September 2022

Hope

December 26, 1920. A huge crowd arrives at Goodison Park for a Boxing Day football fixture. The ground has 53,000 seats. It sells out fast. As many as 15,000 people are turned away disappointed. They…

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