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Cheadle Hulme School and the Halle Orchestra Get Political Volume 49 Number 1 Spring 2012 PRODUCED BY THE HEADMASTERS’ & HEADMISTRESSES’ CONFERENCE Contents Editorial 5 Letter to the Editor 7 More for less? Less for more? Fail to plan, plan to fail, Mark Polson 8 Surprising bedfellows, John Richardson 10 19 Conference matters Glorious St Andrews, Gareth Lloyd 12 The Head is suspended, Roger V Mobs 15 Body and Soul, John Newton 17 Big tent, little tent, pop-up tent? James Priory 19 What next? Dan Smith interviews Barnaby Lenon 21 Cambridge Cambridge or Harvard Cambridge? John Hood 23 Management Academic questions? Fergus Livingstone 25 Technology: the apple of our eye? Catherine Goddard 27 Stepping into the arena, Mark Hand 29 27 Where standing still is not an option, Clive McCombie 30 The changing face of school governance, Neil Carmichael & Edward Wild 32 The importance of ‘passive’ alumni, Lynne Butel and Juliet Memery 34 The way we were Repton and the HMC during the Second World War, Nick Hillman 36 The whispering stones, John Hely-Hutchinson 37 All change? No change? C&CR asks Logie Bruce Lockhart 39 ‘The best centre half in England’: Ken Shearwood, Lancing Legend 41 Book reviews Schooldays on the banks of the Bann 44 ‘A thoroughly good and liberal education’, David Warnes 45 Gordonstoun – An Enduring Vision 47 37 Isaac Barrow: His life and legacy, Stuart Westley 49 The founding of Yarm School, Paul Chapman 53 Starkeye & Co, Alan Shrimpton 57 Endpiece Teaching and the Seven Virtues: Courage, Alistair Macnaughton 58 Happy New Year! See also page 12. 58 Spring 2012 3 John Cheatle offers the widest choice of services of any schoolwear supplier: ON-SITE – where we manage the uniform and sportswear shop for you, relieving you of time- consuming administration and costly stockholding. IN-STORE – our network of High Street shops, located throughout the North and Midlands, where customers can browse and buy. ONLINE – a quick, convenient and rapidly growing service, enabling parents to order directly from us, when it suits them. Providing such a range of made-to-measure services has made us the UK ’s largest independent sportswear retailer, supplying more than 500 independent schools, along with over 2,500 state schools nationally. Being so big, we use our buying power to bring you the best prices possible. Whether it’s a complete schoolwear collection or simply a badged PE shirt, we will create a service that fits your school, your parents and your pupils, perfectly. Call Justin Cheatle on 0116 299 0925 or email [email protected] 32 Charles Street, Leicester LE1 3FG www.schoolwear-centre.co.uk THE UK’S LARGEST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLWEAR SUPPLIER STEERING GROUP Spring 2012 JAMES PRIORY Chairman Editorial Headmaster, The Portsmouth Grammar School TOM WHEARE Editor The outcome of the Judicial Review sought by ISC into the policy of the Charity ELIZABETH CAIRNCROSS Head, Wells Cathedral School Commission contained much that is good news for the independent sector in education, not CHRIS EDWARDS least proof that it is possible for one body to act on behalf of the eight associations that Headmaster, Bromsgrove School represent the sector’s constituent parts. Now under new leadership and a different scheme of CATHERINE GODDARD management, ISC seems well placed to continue to offer a valuable service and Barnaby Head of English, Hampton School Lenon has given up a generous part of his one day a week to respond to C&CR ’s questions. BERNARD TRAFFORD The Review concluded that the Commission had not entirely got things right. On the other Headmaster, Royal Grammar School, hand, the charitable obligations of independent schools have been brought into much sharper Newcastle focus as a result of the Great Charitable Debate and schools will not be able – or inclined – to EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS reduce their service to their communities. Schools have argued that they are generous in KENNETH DURHAM providing opportunity to children whose parents cannot afford their fees, but the door has now Headmaster, been opened to help children whose parents can barely make ends meet on a day-to-day basis University College School and the glimpsed opportunities will surely not be denied but made increasingly available. Chairman, HMC WILLIAM RICHARDSON It remains up to the governors, the trustees of the charity, to run a school as they see fit General Secretary, HMC within the overall charitable purposes by which they are bound. Independent schools should IAN POWER redouble their efforts to fulfil their specific charitable intentions and to provide public Membership Secretary, HMC benefit, which may not necessarily mean taking over failing academies. JONATHAN EVANS In the last issue, Ian Power wrote of ‘surprising bedfellows’ and it would be wise to Managing Director, remember that government, of whatever party, is not always going to be a benevolent John Catt Educational Ltd Business Managers sleeping partner. If we need a bedtime story to enlighten us, we might try Hansel and DEREK BINGHAM Gretel and remember the witch who offered a share of her gingerbread house but planned to Publishing Director, enslave or devour her gullible victims. John Catt Educational Ltd Admittedly the present government’s House of Horrors is scarcely camouflaged with icing Publication: Published three times a sugar, let alone gingerbread. Their response to the accumulation of present and future debt has year, February, May, September. alarmed many who fear for public services, education included. The pensions conundrum is no Editorial Board: A steering group of members appointed by more easy to resolve than the collision between God and Mammon that brought the Church the Headmasters’ & Headmistresses’ Year to such a tumultuous close for the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral. Conference. Just as many independent schools must ask themselves the question ‘what do our Opinions expressed in Conference & Common Room are not necessarily charitable purposes require of us’, so the Church (of England in this case) must face the those of the Headmasters’ & difficult issue of how Christians should respond to the global challenge of the morals and Headmistresses’ Conference; likewise advertisements and editorial are practices of the money market. James Priory, stimulated by back-to-back education printed in good faith, and their conferences, explores this in his article Big tent, little tent, pop-up tent? and Mark Beet, inclusion does not imply Mark Polson and John Richardson write about pensions. endorsement by the Headmasters’ & Headmistresses’ Conference. We will need our full share of courage in the months and years to come, as Alistair No part of this publication may be Macnaughton reminds us. Journalists and picture editors have been quick, if predictable, to reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means use the hitherto accepted image of St Paul’s, with Wren’s sublimely civilized dome standing electronic, mechanical, above the mayhem released by the savagery of war, to point a contrast. Nicholas Hillman and photocopying, recorded or otherwise, without the prior permission of the John Hely-Hutchinson revisit the war years and there are interviews with two nonagenarian Editor and/or the Publishers. heroes, Logie Bruce Lockhart and Ken Shearwood. Subscriptions: There is, however, little time in the lives of schools for retrospection. Should you have a £25 for a two year subscription, post school parliament? Are your pupils being guided towards the best possible university choices? paid; discounts for bulk orders available. Advertising and Are your HR arrangements fair and productive? What do you think of the proposal Subscription enquiries to the empowering parents to dismiss chairs and governors? Are you making the most of your Business Managers : John Catt Educational Ltd, apparently disengaged alumni? Do you want to run an academy as well as tackling your day 12 Deben Mill Business Centre, Old job? Could you mime the contents of a poem by McGonagall? Challenges like these make it Maltings Approach, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1BL. Tel: all the more necessary that your work/life balance should be stable and supportive. Do not (01394) 389850. wait until John Newton gets round to you, but ask yourselves the questions he poses to our Fax: (01394) 386893. Chairman Ken Durham. Email: [email protected] Printed in England by The Lavenham Independent schools must be an engaged and productive part of the society in which they Press Ltd, Arbons House, 47 Water function and HMC’s present Chairman and Vice-Chairman come from schools that illustrate Street, Lavenham, Suffolk CO10 9RN ISSN 0265 4458 this in some ways paradoxical principle admirably. In 1830, University College London Editorial address: decided that the number and quality of its applicants was inadequate and therefore founded a Tom Wheare, 63 Chapel Lane, school whose purpose was in part to widen access. Founded in the rationalist spirit of Jeremy Zeals, Warminster, Wilts BA12 6NP Email: [email protected] Bentham, the school was from the first academically innovative and had no religious affiliation. City of London School (CLS) is also non-denominational, but it has been educating the John Catt Educational Ltd is boys of the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace and the Temple Church choirs since the 1920s a member of the Periodical Publishers Association. and stands a few hundred yards from St Paul’s. Its pupils are therefore inescapably aware of the events in the precincts, much as Westminster boys were witnesses to the execution of Spring 2012 5 It’s Academic Your staff aren’t interested in ‘IT’. But they are interested in academic MIS solutions that deliver results. That’s where 3Sys Academic comes in. 3Sys software is so intuitive that traditional notions of IT are quickly forgotten. 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