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Hey, I’m important
Scan the many virtues – selling points – of independent schools which parents believe to be important when choosing a…
26th March 2020 No Comments
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How resilient is your school’s strategy to coronavirus?
School leaders are rightly focusing on contingency and business continuity plans at the moment. However, they will soon need to…
23rd March 2020 No Comments
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Effective community engagement is always a two-way process
A few years ago, I took part in the ITV two-part documentary ‘School Swap – the Class Divide’, a programme…
16th March 2020 No Comments
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Nurturing female ambassadors in STEM from a young age
It’s widely recognised that the global STEM sector has struggled to recruit more women into science, tech, engineering and mathematical…
9th March 2020 No Comments
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Inspiring children to read like Jo March
For a voracious reader like myself, it is a mystery as to why all children, most of whom have few…
5th March 2020 No Comments
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What is the human cost of your school?
Human cost, human cost! Yes, you have them. From salaries, CPD, recruitment and putting food on the table – yes…
29th February 2020 No Comments
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Out with the old, in with the new
When we start a new year, many of us reflect on the past 12 months and think about what we…
28th February 2020 No Comments
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Explainer: coronavirus and international schools in China
Facial masks, empty streets, daily headlines… the Chinese government has placed over 60 million people in quarantine, nationally extended the…
27th February 2020 No Comments
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Common Entrance: a new phase of assessment
As anyone involved in the prep school world will know, the nature and relevance of Common Entrance (CE) has long been…
18th February 2020 No Comments
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Lesson observations: ‘We have to think about what the next step is for that teacher’
Like many independent schools located in big bustling cities, our pupils often move around during the course of their education,…
17th February 2020 No Comments