Christ’s Hospital Bursaries
5 August 2018
Christ’s Hospital will be offering 85% of its new pupils entering year 7 a fee-assisted boarding place at the school this September. More than 20% of these pupils will be… Find out more
HMC Blog
‘It’s heartening to see the continued growth of outdoor education’
13 July 2018
We’re looking forward to heading off camping as a family this summer. Admittedly, my tanned complexion will not rival that of colleagues who will be jetting off abroad for their… Find out more
Qualifications Equivalence
4 July 2018
Much has been written in the press in recent weeks about the equivalence or otherwise of qualifications bearing the name ‘GCSE’. The discussion has been prompted following reports on social… Find out more
IGCSEs remain tried and tested in year of upheaval
24 June 2018
Listen hard and you can hear the national sigh of relief. Finally, GCSE exams have finished and pupils and parents alike can congratulate themselves for getting through a particularly difficult… Find out more
Student support: could do better
14 June 2018
Nothing any commentator can write about the death of a talented young person – in this case one of a terrible series of student suicides, most recently at the University… Find out more
Working to reduce the stresses of school life
23 May 2018
That there is, at the very least, something approaching a crisis in children’s mental health has become something of a truism in recent years. Indeed, the Prime Minister herself has… Find out more
‘You can choose to see difference… or similarity’
25 April 2018
When I was a kid, my experiences of ‘posh’ private schools were largely confined to getting beaten at rugby by them and youthful interest in black and white St Trinian’s… Find out more
Killer robots and how science works in the brain
24 April 2018
Guest blog written by Professor Michael Thomas (Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, University of London) Professor Thomas was a keynote speaker at Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, in March 2018 at… Find out more
Trying to solve the conundrum of why being ‘bad at maths’ is accepted
15 March 2018
Why is it socially acceptable to be ‘bad at maths’? The recent publicity given to the Schools Minister’s unwillingness to demonstrate his knowledge of times tables on national radio left… Find out more
My thoughts on sport at school
30 January 2018
When I was a young teacher I used to think that whether my team won or lost on a Saturday was all that mattered and I would be depressed for… Find out more
Celebrating the success of partnership working with the London Academy of Excellence
29 January 2018
In January, twenty-two LAE students received offers to study at either Oxford or Cambridge University. This fantastic total puts them on a par with a number of the HMC schools… Find out more
Mediation in Schools: What goes on currently and how can this change?
22 January 2018
Guest blog written by Clive Lewis (Globis Mediation Group) It is inevitable that where there are people, differences will surface from time to time. Sometimes these differences can be nipped… Find out more
A chance to try something new
18 January 2018
The new year traditionally brings its round of well intentioned resolutions. I am sure we have all resolved many great things over the years and this is much to be… Find out more
The challenge that’s made my Christmas!
15 December 2017
I strongly believe that we never stop learning, and that it’s good to challenge ourselves, no matter how old we are. Pupils might be surprised to hear that from a… Find out more
ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING TOUCHED WITH EMOTION
12 July 2017
Ernest Gimson, the great Arts and Crafts’ maker and architect, described architecture as “building touched with emotion”. Gimson’s final and greatest work was the Bedales Library, which opened in 1921… Find out more
Poor universities
26 June 2017
Poor universities. It might not seem as if we should pity the leaders of our great Higher Education sector or those who work for and with students, but just think… Find out more
STEAM – Why we need a new golden age
10 May 2017
In early May, The Huffington Post published an article by Jennifer Tuckett of Central St Martins in which she stressed the importance of an arts education. Creativity and ‘soft’ skills… Find out more
Time to give voice to the quiet revolution in modern boarding
9 May 2017
When parents and grandparents think about boarding schools, what images spring to mind? The close-knit community of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, the magic of Hogwarts enjoyed by Harry Potter –… Find out more
‘People are people and children are children’: from the Kalahari Desert to Dublin
2 March 2017
People often remark to me that moving to Dublin from the far north of South Africa must be very strange. Until June last year I was running a school on… Find out more
Response to Michael Gove
27 February 2017
Last week in the Times former Education Secretary Michael Gove suggested that not only should the charitable status of independent schools be ended but also that that VAT should be… Find out more
