The Principal shares twelve of his favourite personal photographs, recording Italian moments and chronicling his time in the country, while exercising a belief in ‘seeing’ the world.
Principal's Blog
- 2023-24
The Principal explores the concept of holes - medical, financial, educational - before considering a bureaucratic black hole currently frustrating the school.
- Education
- Science
- 2023-24
The Principal explores the phenomenon of colour, its cultural history, how it affects human behaviour, and the critical prism students must acquire to fully see the world.
- Art
- School Values
- 2023-24
The Principal explores the idea of an island, contrasting the self-reliance of Robinson Crusoe with the notion that no man is an island, and the implications that has for how we conduct ourselves as human beings.
- Education
- History
- 2022-23
In his last blog of the year, the Principal sounds a personal note as he reflects on the swerves that shape a life, the challenges of the past, and the prospects for the future.
- School Values
- 2022-23
The Principal laments the use of QR code menus in restaurants, and considers the implications for education posed by generative AI programmes such as ChatGPT.
- ChatGPT
- Innovation
- Learning
- 2022-23
The Principal marks the coronation of King Charles III, reflecting on his own memories of the former Prince and what the institution of monarchy might mean in a modern context.
- School Values
- 2022-23
The Principal considers how playing games is a fundamental human instinct, explores why so many games involve overcoming an obstacle, and why learning through play is a key part of education.
- Games
- Learning
- 2022-23
The Principal considers the phenomenon of lists, ranging from personal and professional to-do lists to literary and historical lists, finding them helpful, often beautiful, and a useful aide-memoire for students.
- Literature
- 2022-23
The Principal considers what it means to encounter a reality other than our own, how education can help to transform one’s outlook, and how we might extend that opportunity to those less privileged than ourselves.
- Bursary Fund
- Education
- School Values
- 2022-23
The Principal considers the phenomenon of cheating, from old chess machines to modern sports stars, to students in exams, and examines how AI is taking this to another level.
- Education
- School Values
- 2022-23
Please see here the text of a speech delivered last night by the Principal at the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy Christmas Dinner, outlining twelve ways to happiness.
- School Values
- 2022-23
The Principal chooses 14 of his favourite paragraphs – a mixture of writings that sparkle with intelligence, warmth and wit.
- Education
- School Values
- 2022-23
The Principal investigates the tradition of the Cabinet of Curiosities, finding in it a new model of learning that fits with the accidental delights of twenty-first century technology.
- Culture
- Education
- 2022-23
The Principal considers the part played by shadows in ancient and modern culture, and explores how, growing up, children cast a lengthening shadow upon the world.
- Art
- Literature