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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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  • Principal’s Speech – July 2023

    There is a line at the end of the Blackadder Goes Forth series when the main characters think the First World War has ended and they will not, after all, have to leave their trenches and face the dangers of the enemy machine guns.  Captain Darling says, ‘Thank God!  We lived through...
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  • The Game of Chance

    Last week’s blog featured a book called ‘Maths on the Back of an Envelope’ by Rob Eastaway, which might make a useful read for budding mathematicians over the summer.  There were just a couple of points that I wanted to finish off before we move on, both related to some of the...
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  • Trees, Seeds and Envelopes

    After a couple of rather melancholic weeks looking at the writing of W.G. Sebald, I promised something a bit more upbeat this week, for which I turn to a book about trees, a few thoughts about seeds and some mathematical puzzles offered via the back of an envelope.  It may all be a bit eclectic...
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  • Will We Ever Learn Anything From Our Past?

    Having reviewed ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald before half term, I will use this week’s blog to bring to your attention another of his books that I found to be a challenging but ultimately fascinating read.  Then I think it would be a good idea to leave this melancholic...
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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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