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Headmaster’s Notes: Creating our own sunshine
Prince’s Mead is an extraordinary community, and over this year we have been reminded on many occasions how supportive and understanding parents have been with the school running under slightly different conditions. It was therefore a genuine pleasure to speak with our Class Representatives this week where we welcomed feedback from you all. It was…
Headmaster’s Notes: The pioneer spirit is alive and well
Independent schools have long enjoyed being pioneers in the creation of collaborative models for education and Prince’s Mead is no exception. Time and time again we have shown ourselves able to adapt and diversify quickly and successfully. More than 600 years after it was founded by William of Wykeham, Britain’s oldest public school, and one…
Headmaster’s Notes: Shouting from the Rooftops!
The Prime Minister’s hopes that children could return from Monday 8th March gave us all some welcome clarity and optimism this week, albeit many of us had anticipated this date would have been sooner. I am aware that this lockdown is proving much tougher for families and teachers, coming as it does in the middle…
Headmaster’s Notes: Nothing can Substitute Experience
Recalling my experience on operations twenty years ago, many of the soldiers in my charge spent many months in an unfamiliar, dangerous, and highly complex landscape facing threats and confronting their fears in ways they had not navigated before. Rigorous training had helped, but nothing could prepare them for the reality. Recalling subsequent operations, one…
Headmaster’s Notes: The Greatness of Community
As we embark on this period of learning from home, how uplifting it has been to witness the Prince’s Mead community embrace the challenges that the beginning of this Lent term has presented to us and to receive such encouraging feedback from those pupils, parents and teachers that I have had the privilege of meeting…
Headmaster’s Notes: The science of today is the technology of tomorrow
Science and technology continue to be a major focus for education and industry in the UK, as highlighted this week by the news that we are the first western country to approve a Covid vaccine. This coincided with news that a British artificial intelligence company has shown that it can compute the shapes that proteins…
Headmaster’s Notes: Great things are done by a series of small things brought together
Having been away for part of this week donning my School Inspector’s hat, I was reminded of how fortunate we are as a school community in so many ways. The artist Vincent Van Gough said: ‘Great things are done by a series of small things brought together’ and how true this is this Harvest time….
Headmaster’s Notes – The best memories are the ones made together
The penultimate week of term is always one of assorted emotions and our Speech Day and Sports Day this week have brought them to the fore. There was certainly happiness and pride as we celebrated all the achievements of the past year in our Speech Day event but there is also a hint of sadness…
Making Time for the Great Outdoors
What a pleasure it was to soak up the atmosphere at our final PMA event of the academic year last weekend as we reflected on the many wonderfully successful events they have organised over the past year. This team of volunteers, under the leadership of Mrs Bowyer, selflessly go out of their way to serve…
Headmaster’s Notes – Teamwork makes the dream work
We witnessed a wonderful celebration of sporting talent with our Sports Awards assembly in Friday Prayers this morning, recognising the very best of discipline, resilience, respect, leadership and, of course, teamwork that we have had the pleasure to observe throughout the academic year. Steve Jobs declared that “Great things in business are never done by…
