Just when you thought you had parenting figured out and your children settled at school...Coronavirus hits like a freight train.  Schools are suddenly shut, children are at home all day and with little warning you are expected to act as class teacher, teaching assistant, subject specialist, PE...

I wonder how many parents regularly hear the request for, ‘just a few more minutes on the computer…’ before that typical argument about how much time is enough?  I never cease to be amazed by how engaged children are online.  We shouldn’t be too surprised however...

Along with 39 other intrepid climbers ranging in age from 9 to 'slightly' more than four score and ten, we ventured to Britain’s wettest place at the weekend to take on the mighty Scafell Pike.  It was a weekend of records for the team because not only was our departure po...

I was reminded this morning that the start of the exam period is less than three months away and with that comes the normal anxiety around preparing and revising.

Well, days like this make me feel very proud to be a Head Master.  The achievements of the young people sitting in front of me is nothing short of outstanding and each of them, plus the hundreds of other children not recognised today, should be celebrated by all of us.  Over the past year...

I was struck by an interesting fact I heard the other day, it went something like this. When most existing parents were growing up, sometime during the 1980s and 1990s, 85% of children either walked or cycled to school, mostly unaccompanied. Today that figure has been completely reversed with 85...