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[email protected] FIS_Perry_TinCans_Ad_210x297mm_V1.indd 1 29/07/2015 21:28 ISSUE 88 Contents Spring2017 8 5 From the editor 7 Introduction 8 The changing challenges of prep school sport 11 Moving the goal posts in Religious Education 15 Cultivating the curious 17 Sitting down with Sir Anthony 18 Do our Common Rooms still exist? 24 21 The Bambajan Approach 24 Learning to live in Harmony 27 Preps lead the way in pastoral tracking 29 How teachers can stick up for homework 32 Where have all the teachers gone? 35 Flexibility, Mobility, Adaptability 36 To tutor or not to tutor 40 38 A certain amount of low cunning 40 Art in action 43 A paradox in education 44 A meeting of minds 46 WoT! a way to do an assembly 48 In Response... 52 Jumping on the bandwagon 55 The four features of a successful school 480 59 A simple solution 60 From the Common Room... 61 Viewpoint 63 Fundraising Fun 64 SATIPS Broadsheets: History Editor ISSN: 0963 8601 Subscription Details: Paul Jackson Printed by Micropress, Reydon,Suffolk IP18 6DH The Business Managers are John Catt Educational Ltd, Managing Editor 12 Deben Mill Business Centre, Old Maltings Approach, Publishers’ Notice Meena Ameen Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1BL. 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Almost 1300 schools in over 110 countries already trust Cambridge Primary to give their students a firm foundation for developing knowledge and skills in English, maths and science. Contact your local Cambridge representative on [email protected] Image: The connectors on a child’s building blocks. cie.org.uk/cambridge-primary Strap Line From the editor Aren’t we lucky? Many of us appear ready for the and prepare new initiatives ready for We in schools implementation of change in both implementation in September? have two areas at this time of year. Perhaps Whilst I leave you to mull over that ‘New Years’ to that is because we have accrued one, you may or may not be doing experience, the confidence in what we have achieved the mulling in a room, which used academic one in in our work thus far and can see how to be at the very centre of school September and, of change will help us to generate even life, the common or staff room. It course, the change greater success during the rest of the seems change is afoot here as well; in the calendar academic year. Are major changes as it is in teacher training, Common year. 2017 is now well under way and introduced at the beginning of the Entrance, prep and senior school many of us will have benefitted from new academic year in September as relationships and sports provision that traditional time of reflection, easily assimilated? – and I am grateful to this edition’s both personally and professionally, Over the years, I have heard many contributors for informing us of them. which the celebration provides. colleagues say, when they have Some things don’t change, of course. As part of that reflection, may I point finally escaped from the beginning Despite the recent legal ruling, the you in the direction of the SATIPS of September meetings, that the last disadvantages of parents taking their website where you will find details of thing they needed was new initiative offspring out of school during term this year’s SATIPS events including overload just when they wanted to time have not diminished and I hope SATIPSKI, The SATIPS Challenge, get into the rhythm of the Autumn the wise words of the highly acclaimed the Handwriting competition and Term and hit the ground running with headmaster, Dr Peter Kent, will the Summer Term’s Art Exhibition. confidence and certainty. 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