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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

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,