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November 2025: The Knowledge
A split-second decision yesterday to take a Black Cab from an IAPS meeting in London led me to a brilliant conversation with Adam, my driver. Within moments he asked where I’d travelled from. “Shropshire,” I

November 2025: Rest Eternal – the Gift of Life
There is a beautiful dichotomy at the heart of Remembrance. For centuries, composers have written Requiem Masses – Duruflé, Fauré and Mozart among the most well-known –

Lessons Beneath the Canopy
I have recently read a wonderful book that has been reprinted over 120 years since it was written. William J. Long’s ‘The School of the

Calming the Inner Squirrel
Greetings from Brighton, where I have spent two days with nearly 400 Prep School Heads for our annual conference. Whilst I never enjoy being out

Big Questions. Bold Learning. Lasting Wonder.
Isaac Newton’s call to arms for the acquisition of knowledge couldn’t be more pertinent now that the Open Source AI genie is out of the

“I Try, and I made it.” June 2025
An extract from Will Goldsmith’s address for ‘A Celebration of Packwood’, 27 June 2025 It has been the most remarkable term, with weeks of almost