Bright Young Things
Last night was opening night for our Year 9 thespians who were performing their comic, clever piece ‘Bright Young Things’, set in a TV production studio and centring around the contestants who are competing to be crowned the cleverest child … Continued
Embracing grounded hope… and being more Tutu
Looking ahead to 2022, I can’t help but feel that so much has happened in the last two years that making new year’s resolutions has – for me anyway – become a bit irrelevant. I haven’t felt able to plan … Continued
Christmas Tree Assembly
One of the – let’s face it, many – weird and wonderful things about Wimbledon High School is the traditions which are unlike those at any other school anyone’s ever encountered. There’s the raucous and occasionally terrifying shouting in an otherwise extremely prim, … Continued
Being a voice for positive change
The recent GSA conference in Manchester had the compelling title ‘Girls – the voice for positive change’. No surprise, then, that many of the sessions made the connection between the power of educating girls (and just girls, in girls’ settings), and … Continued
Demystifying finance in the classroom
Amidst the ongoing debate about broadening curricula and ensuring students leaving school are well equipped for life beyond the school gate, we teachers need to talk more about money. Children in Reception learn to count and handle money with toy cash registers … Continued
Civil Discourse Launch
Why civil discourse? And why now? Well, many critically important issues have arisen in the last two years and many injustices are rightly being uncovered. Outrage is being expressed, with good reason; yet at just the moment when the world should … Continued
A week of reflection
It has been a week of reflection, as we celebrated together our 141st School Birthday on Tuesday, as well as marking more solemnly Remembrance Day yesterday, along with the rest of the nation. Our theme for Remembrance this year was ‘finding faith’, and we … Continued
HMC conference: the future of assessment
I have returned from a very fruitful few days at the HMC Heads’ Annual Conference in Newport, meeting with colleagues and discussing the most pressing and interesting issues in our sector currently. Obviously, we were running our conference concurrently with … Continued
Can we reawaken an age of debate?
Many critically important issues have arisen in the last eighteen months and many injustices are rightly being uncovered. Outrage is being expressed, with good reason, and Generation Z are politically active, knowledgeable and engaged, in a way that generations prior to it … Continued
Welcoming the start of the academic year
Well, it happened, and boy did it happen: the sun shone, the children streamed through the gates (new additions with some trepidation, old hands with great joy at being reunited with friends), and the start of term felt much more … Continued