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ISSN 2398-7995 © 2019 facebook.com/ietoday @IE_Today @ie_today | ie-today.co.uk | 05 contents ON THE COVER 55 OUTDOOR FACILITIES Val Proctor uncovers the benefits of getting outside for adventure, learning and play NEWS 08 LATEST 12 APPOINTMENTS 14 INTERNATIONAL 18 CATERING 22 FACILITIES 26 SPORT 30 FINANCE COMMENT Cover image © Lomond School 32 AI IN EDUCATION 34 AI will not replace teachers, says Priya Lakhani OBE 55 34 EXTRACURRICULAR Hilary Moriarty on the importance of trips and activities 36 GIRLS’ CONFIDENCE Marina Gardiner Legge shares her thoughts on how to encourage girls to query judgements 49 39 INTERNATIONALLYFOCUSED SCHOOLS Internationally-focused schools give flexibility and individual control to teachers, says Hazel Kay FEATURES 44 SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT Jo Golding sees how The Glasgow Academy wants every pupil to find their passion 49 SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL DINNERS Simon Fry looks at how schools are 44 addressing the climate crisis with food 61 MITIGATING CYBERSECURITY THREATS Evan Davies discovers who is most vulnerable 67 INTERVIEW We ask John Attwater, principal of King’s Ely, how to address independent schools’ current challenges 70 TALKING HEADS Advice for supporting SEND students EVENTS 61 74 GSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE A look at what’s in store this November 76 HMC AUTUMN CONFERENCE How heads came together to celebrate the sector PLUS 78 STATS Independent and state school partnerships 06 | ie-today.co.uk | @ie_today NEWS 08 LATEST | 12 APPOINTMENTS | 18 CATERING | 22 FACILITIES | 26 SPORT | 30 FINANCE INTERNATIONAL NEWS Page 14 @ie-today | ie-today.co.uk | 07 latest NuVu Innovation School to ‘resolve huge tension in education’ he education system hasn’t changed in more T than 40 years, but the world has,” said David Miller, director of the recently opened NuVu Innovation School. NuVu Innovation School is a partnership between the Glasgow independent school Kelvinside Academy and Boston innovation school NuVu. Imogen Gillan (S1) Gabrielle McKenzie (S3) It has been designed around “creativity, innovation and no viable alternative. “The design, technical and Miller said: “The current enterprise”. Instead of following “We believe this powerful meta-skills being developed system intensies the idea that a teacher at the front of a learning model could and should and enhanced in the Innovation people leave school as a success classroom, pupils learn by doing, become mainstream and we School – together with an agile or a failure, and for some, it utilising 3D modelling soware, hope the Innovation School mindset – are exactly what a can take many years to recover 3D printers and laser cutters, will serve as a case study for range of Scottish businesses from this binary view of the learning in open-plan studios. government and policymakers and academics are telling us world. There’s no specic target Miller continued: “I believe of what can be achieved.” they need,” said Miller. or outcome; the NuVu model the new Innovation School Balfour Beatty built and The school hopes to present empowers children and frees will resolve a huge tension in constructed the £2.5m to the Scottish government them from the depressing education; everyone knows innovation school and have an example of what a new constraints of assessment.” the model has to change partnered with the school to national curriculum around Talks are under way to open but until now, there’s been work with the students. digital skills could look like. it to pupils at local schools. Engineering event Habs to raise bar in pastoral care speakers revealed Haberdashers’ Aske’s School and our conference certainly young people to nd their own Tomorrow’s Engineers Week for Girls (Habs) has hosted delivered on its promise to identities outside of potentially is taking place from 4–8 its rst pastoral conference, inspire and energise all who toxic friendship groups, spotting November 2019, with schools themed around empowering attended, while equipping the signs of substance abuse, being urged to sign up to pastoral excellence. them with a wealth of practical how to help students make safer the ‘Big Assembly’, which is Close to 300 delegates information, new connections, choices around drugs and alcohol, being hosted on 6 November. attended, where headline ideas and best-practice supporting bereaved children Those speaking this year speaker Professor Tanya Byron approaches for the future.” and understanding unhealthy include Imogen Graves, a civil (child and adolescent mental Topics included helping coping strategies in young people. engineer helping protect the health psychologist and author environment, Rhodri Lewis, a of The Skeleton Cupboard), “This was an important event both for the school lifeboat systems engineer at delivered a speech on how we and our community. Never has it been more vital for RNLI, and Rebecca Shipley, are ‘raising our children in schools to support students pastorally in a complex a healthcare engineer captivity’. She encouraged the world faced with multiple and evolving challenges” helping to beat cancer. audience to remind children Rose Hardy, headmistress, Habs Beth Elgood from that failure is an experience organisers EngineeringUK and not something to fear. said: “Tomorrow’s Headmistress of Habs Rose Engineers Week provides Hardy said: “This was an an opportunity for the important event both for the engineering community to school and our community. work together to inspire the Never has it been more vital next generation of engineers.” for schools to support students Last year, 50,000 young pastorally in a complex people took part in the world faced with multiple inaugural Big Assembly.