Category: Blog
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How do we meet our sons’ needs during lockdown, (and how might they be encouraged to meet ours)?
Last weekend, I read an excellent article in entitled ‘Bringing up Boys in a Time of Lockdown’ by psychologist Steve …·
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Managing Uncertainty: Looking for Opportunities
It is very easy for fear to become our overriding emotion as we digest the uncertainty that has invaded our …·
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A Clean Conscience
The Rugby World Cup last October may have had the wrong result for most of us, but it created an …·
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Social Mobility: how does independent education help you to get on?
In recent times, independent schools have been the focus of considerable negativity in the national press. I wrote about this …·
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Feeling Like an Imposter
I often like to paraphrase my School Assemblies in my blog, as this can lead to fruitful conversations between boys …·
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Post-18 Options
The world beyond School has changed immeasurably in the last ten years alone, let alone when you or I began our own post-18 …·
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The Goal of Education
At this time of year, I am meeting several parents whose sons have recently been successful in the Loughborough Grammar …·
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The Tyranny of Choice
As January draws to a close each year, there is the unmistakable sense in schools across the country that we …·
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Disagreeing Agreeably
I am really quite pleased to have seen the back of 2019. I have written previously about how disappointing it …·
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Is your chat bare whack?
I am an avid reader of the educational press as I seek to compare what we do at LGS with …·
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Keeping to our resolutions
There is something about the New Year that makes us sit up and take stock of our lives. I suppose …·
