A firm friend in our Junior School celebrated his 96th Birthday last week, and to mark him being Very Old Indeed, we have been reflecting on his character and the wonderful adventures which he has…

What do we know about the best schools in the country? Well, the first thing we know is that this question is flawed. Schools are complex living institutions and any narrow comparative measure -…

2022 - the beginning of a new year. An overarching sense of hope seems to be the theme amongst us all as a school community. The blank page of possibility as we turn over a new leaf and face a fresh…

Is the darkness alive? And how angry is it? Let me backtrack a little. At this time of year an ancient rite of passage for head teachers, almost as old as Christmas itself, is to read the Ninth…

I have spent a lot of my teaching life thinking about how a girl might feel comfortable in her own skin: how she may grow to be a woman who likes herself without the security blanket of others’…