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Helen Jeys: ‘Terror came but love remains’
‘Terror came but love remains’ is the title of a poem one of my Year 8 students wrote a week…
31st May 2017
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What’s it like being head at Alderley Edge School for Girls?
Before I started my new role – my first headship after being a pastoral deputy for four years – I…
2nd April 2017
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Six ways to inspire an audience
The 1994 guidance, published by the Department for Education, on collective worship tells us that one of the key aims…
27th February 2017
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Should we teach primary school children about mental health?
A recent article in the American Science magazine commented on the research by Tufts University Massachusetts, that stress impacts memory retrieval….
31st December 2016
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Technology in the classroom: friend or foe?
As a new Head, having inherited a plan to roll-out tablets for Years 7–11, I did feel some trepidation. After…
30th November 2016
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Moving on up
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that school leadership has a huge impact on student outcomes; second…
13th August 2016
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Do parents need to know everything?
In the maintained sector, parents have an independent right of access to their child’s educational record. There is no equivalent…
2nd September 2015
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Beating the mean girls
I am sure that many of you, and probably the majority of the girls in your schools, have seen the…
30th June 2015
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Social media – friend or foe?
From students accused of sharing test questions via Twitter and social media platforms being used as providing opportunities to bully…
16th April 2015
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The gender agenda
At a recent event, I was talking to one of our parents about her decision to send her daughter to…
30th March 2015
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