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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.

6 October 2023

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 people for this?  We often talk about developing resilience…

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29 September 2023

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 thing that makes it what it is?

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22 September 2023

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 glorious conditions - sun beams bouncing off the clear, calm water,…

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22 September 2023

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 Troy, Michigan in 1971.

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8 September 2023

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 brightly.

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