Category: Head’s Blog

15th March 19

Today we celebrated Comic Relief. A big thank you to our Heads of School for organising this event. Again it was great to see the whole School community focusing on people less fortunate than themselves. We all love dressing up, do we not? It seems to me that men’s fashion has gone a bit dull…

8th March 19

It was Dr Seuss who said: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Well, this week, we all had the perfect opportunity to concentrate on the most important items in school: books. With World Book Day came the chance to dress…

1st March 19

I’ve never been a great fan of the Player of the Match concept. Cricket, football, netball and rugby are team games, and selecting one individual is usually difficult and always unnecessary. How must West Indian opening batsman Chris Gayle have felt, having scored 162 against England in the one-dayer this week and been passed over for…

15th February 19

It is my considered belief that Blue Coat gives children the very best start in life. As Headmaster, I cannot recommend the idea of being expelled from school. After the recent fantastical, romantic Year Three and Four play, I certainly hope that none of our pupils will have become over-excited by the idea of expulsion. OK,…

8th February 19

Perhaps inspired by the recent School Quiz, my eye was taken last week by a tantalising crossword clue. ‘Young mind not yet affected by outside impressions and experience, as in the philosophy of John Locke (6,4). Not being a classical scholar, and feeling sheepish about asking my friend the crossword fiend, I was bound to rely…

1st February 19

Traditionally, we are approaching that time of the academic year when we – and children in particular – feel at our lowest ebb. As I said last week, snow can be an exciting arrival, but the weather is dark and gloomy, the nights are still closing in all too quickly, and we are all prone…

25th January 19

There is surely no truer test of how one is ageing than by applying the following gauge: ‘How excited do you feel about snow?’ Of course, there was excitement for every Blue Coat child this week when they woke up on Wednesday morning. Only a thin covering, I grant you, but there was of course the…

14th January 19

The start of a new year is traditionally a time when we make determined efforts to change our ways: to eat more sensibly, perhaps; to think of ourselves a little less; to think of other people a little more. We all want to look forward. This time we have been stopped in our tracks. Sadly,…

14th December 18

I sit typing with one ear on the radio to discover what her own MPs have decided should be the fate of our Prime Minister. As I will be saying to staff and Governors later today, one has to admire not only the dignity of this woman but also the extraordinary stamina that she has shown…

7th December 18

In a busy penultimate week of term, I decided to take my wife out to dinner. Having had a significant lunch in school that day, I bypassed the meat dishes and scanned the menu for something lighter. Fish, perhaps? Happily, the menu offered ‘Hake’. And that one syllable reminded me instantly of a hilarious incident from…