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“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

Journey on: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
As we await the return of our Year 8s from their leavers’ trip, I reflect on this period as a threshold between endings and beginnings.

Messing About in Boats: Lessons from Wind in the Willows
On a balmy Shropshire evening, I proudly watched our middle school production of ‘Wind in the Willows’. It was a display of creativity, colour, vibrancy,

Couch of Happiness
Speaking to a group of thousands of young Catholics in Kraków in July 2016 as part of World Youth Day, the late Pope Francis gave

Adolescence
We are organising a symposium for parents next term on the reality of the online world and watching the first episode of Adolescence Cat and

Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
In Assembly on Monday morning I asked the children and staff who finds feedback and criticism hard. Predictably, a sea of hands went up into