Category: Head’s Blog

Headmaster’s Update

21st January 21

Being a thoroughly modern man, I like nothing better than getting to grips with an iron. Not on the golf course, you understand; but in the Neeson household – in the domestic context. Other than soaking in the bath, there can be no better situation to develop ideas and to have new ones than when…

Headmaster’s Update

15th January 21

Can I begin by reminding parents of the forthcoming parents’ seminar on mental health and well-being. This will take place ‪on February 1st at 7pm. I would ask all parents to join the event. It will help us not only to build a sense of community, but also to give us further strength as we begin…

Headmaster’s Update

8th January 21

Alas, having assured Andrew Marr on Sunday that Schools were safe to open, the PM again found himself ‘going about’. In the ebb and flow of this cruel sea of the pandemic, another hostage had been made to fortune. The consequence, of course, is that I can welcome back, physically to BCS, only a fraction…

Headmaster’s Update

11th December 20

Do you know that VICARS THEMES is an anagram for Christmas Eve? And how many of you are looking at this week’s opening sentence and thinking to yourselves “Should there not be an apostrophe before or after the ’s’ of the word ‘VICARS’? Pardon me for leading off in a skittish, pedantic sort of way;…

Headmaster’s Update

4th December 20

With the restrictions imposed upon us by the Government in the fight against COVID, it is surely more important than ever that we respect and enjoy the traditions of the 2020 festive season. Because of the tier system, we may not, this Christmas, be able to see all of the family and what the media…

Headmaster’s Update

27th November 20

The world of comic strips and pulp fiction is full of their sensational stories: those heartthrob heroes who saved the world. Normally they are dressed in something very bright and streamlined. Most of them have dramatic superpowers. Some fly. Others drive fancy, technologically advanced, armoured cars. All of them appeal to our imagination because they…

Headmaster’s Update

20th November 20

Take a look at a Picasso painting. Odd. Think David Bowie. Odd. Look at Salvador Dalí and his works of art. Very odd! And yet, there’s little doubt that they were masters at their craft. Creative geniuses with a different world view. It’s this distinctiveness that set them apart from everyone else. That’s why they were…

Headmaster’s Update

13th November 20

Don’t blink, or you will have missed another sense-ational week at BCS! Yes, it’s true. All the five senses have been fully engaged during a wonderfully stimulating week here. We have heard the plaintive sound of a lone bugle on an emotional occasion. We have smelt the wonderful aroma of loaves lovingly baked by seven-year-old…

Headmaster’s Update

6th November 20

When I consider how childish has been so much of the debate on the other side of the Atlantic, it makes me proud to reflect on how maturely our pupils approach the ‘politics’ of life here at BCS. I have again much enjoyed meeting the Heads of School this week, discussing concerns and questions from…

Headmaster’s Update

16th October 20

Some of you Netflix watchers might have been lucky enough to see David Attenborough’s recent masterpiece, A Life On Our Planet. This was a very moving exposition of, amongst other things, how we as individuals can do our bit to preserve wildlife and pass on the glory of the natural world to future generations. This…