Showing items for tag “Pastoral Care”

• 31 Jan

  Food for thought

  In this special Q&A, former Catering Manager Mike Thorne explains the approach taken to feeding Bryanston’s 600+ pupils three times a day, the increasing interest in veganism and the importance of encouraging pupils to make their own choices when it comes to food…

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• 17 Jan

  Why teens need proper nourishment

  Nutrition expert Lucinda Miller (NatureDoc Clinic) was recently invited to Bryanston to deliver training for all staff on how food choices affect teenagers. In this special guest post, Lucinda explains why encouraging teens to make healthy food choices is important now and even more so for their fut...

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• 2 Dec

  Celebrating difference

  God made us all, each wonderfully different...

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• 22 Nov

  Learning the importance of decision making and accepting responsibility through Outdoor Education

  Head of Outdoor Education Duncan Curry explains why outdoor education plays such a crucial role at Bryanston and how it goes hand-in-hand with the challenges pupils face in everyday life… 

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• 16 May

  The transition from a Junior to a Senior Boys' House

  Growing up in London and venturing onto the London underground system, I was always anxious about the need to change lines to get to my required destination. Was I aiming to head north or south, east or west, and what was I to do when the tannoy announced “all change please, all change...

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• 2 May

  The importance of the spiritual

  Life is not all about the here and now. Although, as we all know, the ability to live in the present, to take life as it is and not to hanker after how it ‘should’ be, or how it seems to be for celebrities who airbrush their life for social media, is one of the things that is l...

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• 15 Feb

  Settling in at senior school

  Stephen Davies, junior boys housemaster explains how Bryanston's junior boys' house system helps ease the transition to senior school...

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• 1 Feb

  "You just don't understand" (part one)

  As a companion piece to Simon Vincent’s blog about teenage boys, Edrys Barkham, experienced tutor and former hsm, demonstrates that we also know a great deal about teenage girls. She shares her insights below in part one of her blog…

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• 30 Nov

  The value of a Gold Standard

  Bryanston was recently delighted and honoured to be awarded Stonewall’s Gold School Champion Award in recognition of the school’s work over the past three years with regard to LGBT+ awareness and inclusion. Ian McClary, Bryanston's former LGBT+ lead, writes…

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