Reflecting the Best in the Prep and Junior School World
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Spring 2019 ▲ Issue 94 PREP SCHOOL Reflecting the best in the prep and junior school world Perry Uniform is a full service school uniform and sports kit supplier with an extensive range Uniform of services that make us a natural choice for any school. We work alongside our schools to deliver exceptional performance to that speaks parents, tailoring our services to meet the needs of both school and parent alike. for itself. Offering the convenience of on-line, showroom and shop as a truly integrated and multi-channel shopping service is just one of the many benefits of working in partnership with Perry Uniform. Call us on 0113 238 9520 or email [email protected] today and find out how we can work with you and your school. www.perryuniform.co.uk 2019 Contents Spring ISSUE 94 5 From the editor 7 Common Entrance exam is a burden children do not need, 14 Patrick Derham OBE 9 Independent schools and their value to society, Julie Robinson 12 You’ve got to have vision, Matthew Bryan 14 The pursuit of happiness, Rachel Smith 17 My trip to the Netherlands, Lotte 19 Why educational partnerships matters, Louise Brown 21 Parents matter: the key to student success, Michael Lambert 22 All the fun of the theme, Sacha Guppy 24 Mastery Behaviour Management, Bradley Rafftree 22 26 Think about it, Kevin Donnelly 28 The experience of inspired learning, Ben Evans 30 Using the past to change the future, William Swift 33 The insatiable hunger for a classical education, Tim Day 34 The Thinking School, Dr Kulvarn Atwal 35 Inspire, Catriona Martin 36 Love to Teach, Kate Jones 39 Shaping up to the meaning of life, Ian Morris 26 40 Discussing mental health, Alison Tonks 43 Only girls allowed, Sue Collins 44 The case for a compulsory rugby experience, Neil Rollings 46 Mentoring teachers and leaders, Paul Baker 48 The campaign for colour, Sarah Matthews 51 SATIPS Art Exhibition 2018 52 Taking on mindfulness, Shaun Fenton 54 The mental health crisis, Dr Roger Bretherton 56 Thank you and goodbye, Paul Murray 440 61 Wellbeing and resilience, Kate Allen 64 Number sense, Dr Junaid Mubeen 66 How one schoolboy ended up running a circus, Ed Meredith 68 A new series, Letts 69 SATIPS Broadsheet 73 SATIPS courses and directory 74 What’s in a name? 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Created in * partnership with PEUK Y603 Y603 Power Maths Prep School Mag Ad.indd 1 12/14/18 11:15 AM Common Entrance exam is a burden children do not need Patrick Derham OBE, Headmaster of Westminster School Socrates may have thought the education that remains the best School, decided that from September unexamined life is not worth leading preparation for adult life. 2021 the 13+ entry to both schools but what about the over-examined There is, of course, superb teaching will not be conditional upon passing life that all pupils have to endure? in prep and primary schools but at a the Common Entrance examination. There is too much assessment and key stage in pupil development the Pre-test and related assessments work, the atomisation of the curriculum in focus switches to passing an exam so why add to the stress? We are not recent years has not helped. There that is unnecessary, given they have criticising Common Entrance. It is a are too many subject silos and not already ‘passed’. What do I mean by good exam: it has endured and it is enough joined-up thinking across the this? More and more independent a perfectly adequate preparation for curriculum, so too many young people schools have a pre-test in Year 6 and Year 9 but it is limiting, particularly do not see the beauty of learning and then there is the additional challenge in the form of assessment, and is no the interconnectedness of so