“If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem”. This is what Leighton Park tells their new Year 7s when they enter into the school… Find out more
Over 2,600 Gloucestershire children and their families will be given three days of meals each week during August, thanks to an exciting new partnership between The Venture: White City, Gloucestershire… Find out more
Despite Covid-19, Bolton School has continued to play its part in the local community and beyond. Headmaster of the Boys’ Division, Mr Philip Britton, explains: ‘It is of such great… Find out more
Truro School’s teachers and choristers have recently been involved with an international children’s engagement project prompted around the UK’s hosting of the G7 summit, called Sing2G7. At the centre of… Find out more
Having spent years on HMC’s Universities Committee, I’m well used to familiar themes re-emerging. Student finance was an issue back in 2010, and it still is. The student experience –… Find out more
In 2019 Looked After Children (children who are in care of the local authority) had an average Attainment 8 score of 19.1 compared to 44.6 for all children, while only… Find out more
originally published 16 September, revised 20 September A blog by Dennis Sherwood On 7 September 2021, the Education Committee held a hearing with Schools’ Minister Nick Gibb; DfE Permanent Secretary,… Find out more
This timeless childhood riddle is still circulating around school playgrounds, and the answer remains the same – your age. A variant of this riddle appears every August amongst media commentators,… Find out more
As students, parents and teachers anticipate some hard-won grades this year, there is a general expectation that we will have much to celebrate. The causes of improved results are not… Find out more
Theodore Roosevelt once said: ‘In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst… Find out more
Emanuel School is an integral part of the community in the London Borough of Wandsworth. One of the key aims at the school is to enhance social mobility in its… Find out more
Every summer term, the Bradford Grammar School (BGS) sports fields are filled with the excited cheers of hundreds of happy children as local primary schools come together for the mini… Find out more
Amid these necessarily “anti-social” times, we have undergone a brutal social awakening. The shocking deaths of two unconnected people have brought to the surface a torrent of emotion and shone… Find out more
Blog by Robin Macpherson, Head of College at Robert Gordon’s College In tackling both the future of assessment at GCSE, and the curriculum that assessment is based on, the HMC… Find out more
Anyone in education knows first-hand how difficult this last year has been as online teaching became the norm, with both teachers and pupils learning new ways of working together away… Find out more
Schools who have stepped outside the TPS may now be free to offer more attractive packages, writes Dr Simon Hyde Benjamin Franklin’s two certainties in life, death and taxes, used… Find out more
Partnership working Hampton School has been working with Sixth Form pupils from six local partnership state schools offering support across eight academic subjects – helping to prepare them for next year’s… Find out more
Among the ‘50 most important documents of civilization’, according to Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan in Treasures of History, is the ‘nondescript notebook’ in which were written, in 1863, the… Find out more
The appalling revelations provided by numerous testimonies posted on the Everyone’s Invited website are shocking, but perhaps should not have come entirely as a surprise. Schools, wherever they exist, are… Find out more
The so-called ‘serenity prayer’ has always struck me as something that could have been written specifically for headteachers. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,… Find out more
