How do we inspire girls to study STEM subjects?
Dr John Hind, principal at Dame Allan's Schools, discusses the ways schools can inspire girls to engage with STEM subjects.
Posted on: 04 Jul 2019
Posted by: Dr John Hind
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Moving beyond the rhetoric of resilience in sport
Iain Simpson, director of sport at Oakham School, discusses why the development of psychological behaviours such as commitment, grit and perseverance has become a key part of his school's sports coaching.
Posted on: 30 May 2019
Posted by: Iain Simpson
Myth-busting: “Attending an independent school makes you posh and entitled”
Zanna Meynell, a Year 13 pupil at Monkton School, discusses her experience attending an independent school for her sixth form years. She writes how her preconception that independent school pupils must be 'posh and entitled is entirely inaccurate'.
Posted on: 16 May 2019
Posted by: Myth busters
Myth-busting: “Independent schools are too elitist to share their advantages”
Julie Robinson, chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, uses the latest Census data to set the record straight about some of the myths surrounding independent schools…
Posted on: 09 May 2019
Posted by: Myth busters
Myth-busting: "All independent schools are alike”
In the next "myth-busting" blog, Tracey Wilson, the headmistress of St John's Priory School, helps to debunk the idea that “all private schools are alike”.
Posted on: 25 Apr 2019
Posted by: Myth busters
Myth-busting: "Independent schools have no wider impact on society”
As the myth-busting continues, Daniela Szmigielska Shanly, proprietor of Beech Lodge School in Berkshire, writes about her school for young people who are unable to achieve their potential in a conventional school setting.
Posted on: 18 Apr 2019
Posted by: Myth busters
'Entrepreneurship in schools is not a bolt-on, a club or occasional activity: it's life'
Jonathan Forster, principal of Moreton Hall, writes how entrepreneurship is embedded within a school and discusses what it can do for every type of student learner.
Posted on: 17 Apr 2019
Posted by: Jonathan Forster
'Should schools be fostering entrepreneurial thinking - and aren’t they doing this anyway?'
Helen Pike, master at Magdalen College School, argues the ability to assess risk and reward and to make good decisions are essential to what it means to be a successful human being.
Posted on: 12 Apr 2019
Posted by: Helen Pike
