June 2022
24 Jun 2022
I was in a meeting on Thursday with Dame Rachel De Souza, the Children's Commissioner. She was updating Hertfordshire headteachers …
May 27, 2022
27 May 2022
I often reflect on the difference between my previous life in industry versus life in school. One of the main …
May 9, 2022
09 May 2022
The Easter break has felt like a page being turned in the long book of Covid-19. I was grateful to …
April 2022
01 Apr 2022
Do you remember VCRs when you could watch videos on fast forward? With concentration, you could just about keep pace …
March 2022
11 Mar 2022
Post-pandemic, I've felt like the small child in the car on a long journey - 'Are we nearly there yet?' …
February 2022
11 Feb 2022
Sometimes the weeks can seem like months, but here we are at another half term. It seems like an age …
January 2022
21 Jan 2022
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope" - O. Carl Simonton
January started much like …
December 2021
20 Dec 2021
I am sure that you are the same as me at the moment: emotional. I think I speak for the …
November 30, 2021
30 Nov 2021
Sadly, we are all becoming more familiar with the letters of the Greek alphabet! With the emergence of the Omicron …
November 8, 2021
09 Nov 2021
The big news from last week was the publication of our Ofsted report from the inspection in September. This reads …
October 2021
11 Oct 2021
Someday I will be able to write a newsletter without mentioning Covid. But not this time. Professor Chris Whitty talked …
December 2020
December 2020
What a term it has been: 'baptism of fire is how it has been described...
October 2020
October 2020
I am very proud of the calibre of student that we have at HBS...
February 2020
February 2020
if you haven’t done so already: start revision now; start doing more than just homework or coursework now...”