I mentioned last week that I had been to see a lecture from Sir John Jones at St Mary’s, which became a timely opportunity for me to renew my educational vows about what really matters in school amidst the stasis and torpor that the weekly wait for an inspector to...

I said last week that I am currently teaching the social and economic history of the seventeenth century to my Lower Sixth class.  We spent last term looking at the various political and religious upheavals of the period, not least the execution of Charles I in 1649 as the culmination of the ye...

By the time you read this, we will know the outcome of the General Election, but it simply isn’t possible in the final week of term to wait until the last morning to put together the latest news in a coherent piece of thought – if indeed that is ever what I do when I write...

It is always an interesting experience to do something a little different at school, outside the normal rhythms of each term, so the chance to host a hustings event for the parliamentary candidates for the Twickenham constituency offered the prospect of a fascinating evening on Wednesday...

On Monday this week, we held two Acts of Remembrance, one in school and one in Radnor Gardens with the staff and pupils from St Catherine’s School.  In my closing remarks, I shared my thoughts about what I try to remember each year during the two minutes’ silence, because...