Education

The New Abnormal

It’s not coronavirus alone but it was almost a final straw on top of other financial threats. Schools are braced…

5 years ago

Schools and COVID-19: Gloom and Doom, Hope and Glory

What Schools Have To Be About Now A colleague shared an article  - That Discomfort You're  Feeling Is Grief from…

5 years ago

Disease and Pestilence: School Edition

As my inbox and timeline fill up with Corona Virus updates and advisories this is little footnote to my post…

5 years ago

The School is Dead, Long Live the School

This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…

5 years ago

The Welsh Connection

This is a follow-up to The Queen of Mean and one of a series about Headlands Grammar School and what…

5 years ago

The Queen of Mean

When Senior Mistress Miss A. Jacob retired from Headlands School Mr.Magson had this to say in the school magazine: Two…

5 years ago

Onwards: The Strategic Advance

I've long thought that the word retreat should not be linked with strategic planning. It's a bit of a misnomer…

5 years ago

Can and May and Merv

Everyone who ever had Merv Comrie as a teacher at Headlands has a story to tell. Merv left an indelible…

5 years ago

And of Course We Called Her “Nutty”

Before I learned to be afraid of Miss Jacob I was terrified by Miss Almond. First week, first form at…

5 years ago

The Changed Face of School Leadership

The schools we attend and work in help shape the people we become. Seven of my sixty plus years in…

5 years ago