Teaching
What a class of eighteen actually changes
Not attention, which is what everybody assumes. It changes marking — a teacher can write eighteen paragraphs on a Sunday and cannot write thirty-four.
Meera Thapliyal · This term
Read more →The journal
Notes from the staff room
Occasional and unscheduled. Written by whoever had something worth saying rather than by a marketing calendar, which is why there are five of them and not fifty.
Five pieces
The most recent is from this term.
Admissions
Why there is no league position on our website
A percentage drawn from fifty-four pupils moves four points when two of them have a bad fortnight. We publish the results to families who ask, with the cohort beside them.
Meera Thapliyal · Last term
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Admissions
The case against the open day
An open day shows you a school that has been tidied. A Tuesday shows you the corridor at four o’clock, which is the thing worth seeing.
Ravi Chandola · Last term
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The school
One fee, and what it cost us to publish it
Two years of arguing about the trips budget, and a bursary scheme that had to be rebuilt. It is the change families mention most and the one that was hardest.
Meera Thapliyal · Two terms ago
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Teaching
Why the head still teaches four periods
Because the timetable looks different from inside it, and because a head who has not marked a set of books this year is a head being told what the school is like.
Ravi Chandola · Two terms ago
Read more →The rest of the school is on the main page
Fees, class sizes and how admission works, all in one place.