Headmaster's Blog
- Published on 27/05/22 by Natalie Hunt
Learning independence in an interdependent world
One of the greatest gifts we can give to our children is the ability to live happy and independent lives. When they leave school at 18, they will then be prepared to take responsibility for their own choices and to forge successful futures – and we can only hope that their choices will be mora...Read More - Published on 20/05/22 by Natalie Hunt
Breadth and depth
Wednesday was ‘National Numeracy Day’, and you may have read about an economist’s suggestion that the subject ‘maths’ should be called ‘numeracy’, to make it less “academic and scary”. Methinks the article was not entirely fair, as he was talking...Read More - Published on 13/05/22 by Natalie Hunt
Changing of the Guard
I have been typically and happily very busy this week with a variety of headmagisterial tasks, and two of my highlights have been discussions or interviews with our most senior pupils. We have reached the point in the year when our current prefects in Year 13 hand over to a new group of pupil lea...Read More - Published on 06/05/22 by Natalie Hunt
Outside the box
I was privileged on Wednesday evening to attend the county finals of the Young Enterprise competition, held at De Montfort University. Our team of five Year 12, representing their company ‘Telios’ of 32 students, had to provide a written brief, were interviewed by judges at their trad...Read More