Showing items for tag “Individuality”

• 5 Jul

  Avoiding educational labyrinthitis

  This week we welcome our Director of Sport, Alex Fermor-Dunman, who shares his thoughts on the importance of providing the balance in education. 

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• 10 Jun

  Diverse community

  Former Head of Sixth Form, Ian McClary, shares his thoughts on diversity and inclusivity and the importance of being accepted as yourself and of accepting others for who they are

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• 27 May

  Individual breadth

  Our former Director of Admissions explains the need for a balance between breadth and depth in education.

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• 12 Feb

  Piercing the gloom

  I always say, if asked, that the most difficult months in a school are November and February. I don’t know why I’ve always found this time of year so bleak; perhaps it’s the circadian rhythms and the short days which affect me.

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• 16 Oct

  The thinks you can think

  “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try”.  Dr Seuss 

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• 13 Mar

  United by the language of science

  This week we welcome Bryanston's Edrys Barkham as a guest blogger.

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• 6 Feb

  Greenhouse not hothouse

  There’s been more still in the media in recent weeks about what teachers must do to satisfy the grinding requirements of some moved goalpost or other, with several of my HMC colleagues rightly cross about league tables.

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• 16 May

  School ties

  Last weekend we had reunions for the classes of 2004, 1994, and 1984. The school was full of returning Old Bryanstonians (OBs), and in many cases their young families, and there was a constant buzz of enjoyed excitement as old friends encountered one another again. 

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• 13 Feb

  An antidote to tedium

  Being a teacher for nearly 28 years means you think a fair bit about years, terms, months, weeks and lessons and occasionally even remember being on the receiving end of things.

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