As I mentioned in my last blog, I’m not a big believer in new year’s resolutions but I do want to give some thought to the more powerful concept of human resolve.  While a degree of human resolve is needed to stick to a new year resolution, resolve is actually a quality that we migh...

It is interesting how often we can gain insight into something of wider significance from things that happen in our daily life.  It occurred to me recently that there is a lot of debate (and I’ll stick with the word ‘debate’ rather than ‘argument’) in our house...

During the summer holidays we’ve just enjoyed, it was the 50 year anniversary of the first moon landing. What a truly incredible feat. As the familiar old news footage of the moon landing was replayed across modern media outlets to mark the anniversary, I realised the extent to which we have g...

Summer Term in school inevitably means our thoughts turn to exams.  Over the coming weeks, many of our pupils will reach the pinnacle of their acquired knowledge to date on different topics and subjects and I have been talking to them about the fascinating ways that our brains commit that knowl...

Sometimes we learn something about ourselves when we’re least expecting it.  During the February half term holiday, I was lucky enough to go skiing with my family.  Much as I was looking forward to it, I came to skiing as an adult and my desire for self-preservation has always outwei...

Perfectionism is a topic which has received a lot of attention in recent years, especially amongst those of us who work with children, and I’ve recently been talking to our pupils about what it might mean to them.