Podcast - episode 19

Building Character and Adventure in Schools – Insights from Educators Across Continents

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Date

27 March 2026

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Tom Lawson talks about character education with guests from the HMCJ Network for prep and junior schools: Rosie Ferris (Head of Character Education, PSHE and Charities at St Paul’s Prep School), Dina Hamalis (Head of Channing Junior School), and Adam Larby (Head of Tudor House, part of King’s School in Australia).

  • Find out how Tudor House is aspiring to be ‘the most adventurous primary school in Australia’ and how the need for twice-yearly assemblies on snakes, spiders and poisonous mushrooms doesn’t deter them.
  • Discover more about Curiosity Fox and Channing Schools other Characters all named after woodland creatures.
  • Debate the fascinating question that St Paul’s School asks their staff: what do role models do when the children aren’t around?

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Tom Lawson

Headmaster, Eastbourne College

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