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Remote teaching: the message not the mediumJanuary 23, 2021There has been considerable and entirely justifiable public concern about the effects of having to access education remotely in the context of the COVID-19 national emergency and the two lockdowns it has caused thus far. The educational media are re-echoing with speculation about ‘lost learning’. Rightly a lot of the focus has been about the […]...
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Living hopefullySeptember 19, 2020In 1991 Seamus Heaney’s play, The Cure at Troy was first performed. “History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise upAnd hope and history rhyme.” These lines from that play resonate strongly with anyone who has studied the history of the conflict in […]...
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In praise of ordinary magicJune 4, 2020Growing up in the 1970s there was not the wide range of children’s literature which fills shelves today. Independent reading started with things like Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’ and moved on to books like JRR Tolkein’s ‘The Hobbit’. Now I appreciate that Tolkein’s fantasy world of Middle Earth is like Marmite for most people, […]...
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Glimpsing the LightMarch 28, 2020So much has changed since the Friday before the general closure of schools that it seems like an age away already, rather than just seven days. It was with great sadness, of course, that we had to announce that closure at Bennett and say some very premature farewells (in person at least) to our year […]...
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Looking ForwardJanuary 6, 2020The New Year and new decade have predictably encouraged the media in the past few days to follow the Roman deity Janus in looking backwards to evaluate the year past and to look forward in order to predict what may be coming our way. This annual stock-taking has, it seems, become something of a hand-wringing […]...
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The Formation of CharacterNovember 18, 2019“REMONSTRANCE, calm, distinct, and persevering, in public and in private, direct and indirect, by word, look, and demeanour, is the unequivocal duty of every Christian” On 14th July 1833 John Keble thus addressed the congregation of St Mary the Great, Oxford with his famous sermon lamenting what he described as the “National Apostasy”, what he […]...
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Making ConnectionsSeptember 30, 2019At funerals in Ancient Rome actors would be hired to wear the death masks of deceased family members to join the procession to the tomb. In this way the Roman family stressed their sense of connection to a long unbroken chain of ancestors. It was a powerful statement of where they came from and their […]...
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Highly prized awardsMay 13, 2019Last Wednesday we welcomed the Mayor of Tunbridge Wells to present certificates at our Bennett Duke of Edinburgh’s Award celebration evening. It was a splendid event, supported by both parents and indeed the fantastic volunteers who help our students achieve the awards and on whom our programme absolutely relies. As I said at the event, […]...
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On the virtues of traditionJanuary 30, 2019The 1960s Broadway musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ opens with the dairyman Tevye singing ‘Tradition’, lamenting the threats to his domestic patriarchal control and the cultural values that he holds dear. The musical charts the disintegration of Tevye’s world with his daughters defying his attempts to control them and Tevye himself forced to leave his […]...
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Waiting wellDecember 4, 2018I imagine that I am probably not alone in finding the recent traffic works in Tonbridge High Street infuriating. Sitting waiting in traffic, despite my best efforts to travel at a time when few others are on the road makes me feel fed up. I am sure that I can actually feel my blood pressure […]...
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