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Principal's Blog

Radnor House parents receive a Weekly Bulletin of news information, highlights of achievements and details of forthcoming events, as well as additional communications from other departments and individuals as necessary.

Our Principal, Darryl Wideman, also writes a regular blog to share his thoughts about education and the world with a wider audience, which you can read below.

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  • The Best Writer You Have Never Heard Of

    My daughter’s course at university was a joint honours degree in English and Comparative Literature.  I say ‘was’ rather than ‘is’ because she submitted her final pieces of work a couple of weeks ago.  Even though it feels like she only started yesterday, the...
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  • A Call to Action

    A few months ago, I wrote about a book called ‘Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now’ by the Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran, which I want to revisit one last time this week to highlight some of the other thought-provoking ideas that featured in her writing.  If we want to encoura...
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  • Past, Present and Future

    I mentioned to one of our pupils a couple of weeks ago that I had noticed he is often at the front of the queue when I open the school gate in the morning and he is often one of the first to leave the building at the end of the day.  I asked him if he had ever heard of the term ‘FIFO...
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  • All Relatively Quiet on the Western Front

    Looking back at what I wrote last year about our trip to the Battlefields of the First World War, I was a bit surprised to find that I managed to churn out three separate blogs about what happened.  I know I have the capacity to go on a bit (well, quite a lot, to be honest), but to end up with...
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  • The Not So Wild West

    Perhaps it is the time of year – spring cleaning and all that – or perhaps it is just a nagging doubt about loose ends, which I have always found disproportionately irritating, but I feel the urge to tidy.  However, I also know that I just need to accept that no one can reach a poin...
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  • That's a Nice Castle

    Tempting though it might be to write a few blogs about some of the interesting historical monuments I have visited over the years, this week’s title is not a reference to a motte and bailey fortress that I chanced upon over the Easter break.  At this risk of being ‘fishist’, i...
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  • Holiday Food For Thought

    Since many of us will be going off to different places to do different things in the next couple of weeks, I thought I would wrap up this term’s offerings with an eclectic mix of ideas from my reading as a way to stimulate debate around the dinner table or wherever your family may gather over...
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  • The Truth Is Out There

    As part of the process of deciding what to write about this week, I was flicking through my notes from recent books and stories that have caught my attention when I came across a headline that I spotted on the BBC news website last summer: ‘Man Fleeing Wiltshire Crash Scene Attacked by Emus...
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  • What Are You Waiting For?

    This week’s offering is a second and final visit to Oliver Burkeman’s ‘Four Thousand Weeks (Time and How to Use It)’, which did not entirely float my boat and solve all my problems, but which nevertheless provided some interesting food for thought and reminded me of a piece o...
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  • Four Thousand Weeks

    Before changing course to consider the best way to spend the limited time we are allotted in this world, which I appreciate is quite a significant topic, I need to tidy up a final point from Simon Kuper’s study of the Oxford Tory elite, in all their lack of glory, as highlighted in the last co...
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  • Still Not My Chums

    Following on from last week’s review of ‘Chums’ by Simon Kuper, it feels like there is enough material from the book to justify another blog.  Above all, I need to reinforce what I took to be the key message, which is that the people who have been in charge of running our coun...
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  • Chums – But Not Mine

    You can write your own version of some jokes, editing the key words to fit whichever person or group you want to tease.  For example: ‘How do you know if someone you meet went to Oxford?  Don’t worry, they’ll tell you soon enough.’  I have heard this joke appli...
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