Honoured to represent Bassett House School and Dukes Education at the ISPN conference yesterday.

Last week we officially inaugurated our new Upper School building at Lyndhurst Gardens with a talented live band to entertain us all! Thank you so much to everyone who came and a big thank you to our Year 7 and 8 boys who marvellously presented their new classrooms to our guests.

Year 6 have had their final PHS adventure today…. Navigating their way around the landmarks of London taking in Hyde Park, the Tower and the City and all points in between #ProspectHouseSchool #PHS #putney #prepschool #Y6leavers #london

Huge thank you- Libby N Sir David Carter Dan Snow Dame Rachel de Souza Leora Cruddas CBE

What a woman!

If you were influenced personally or professionally by the work of Professor John West-Burnham, do join us on November 30 to reflect on and honour his legacy and help to think about how we can now take that work forward. Information at eu1.hubs.ly/H05fFQ40

We’ve added a line to every colleagues job description. “Try every day to carry out a random act of kindness for a customer, a colleague or a member of the public…even one who doesn’t even come in to our shops.” Being kind is the best way to do business.

If you were influenced personally or professionally by the work of Professor John West-Burnham, do join us on November 30 to reflect on and honour his legacy and help to think about how we can now take that work forward.

Thank you to Hampton Court House for inviting me and my family to join hundreds of people from the local community to watch your stunning fireworks display yesterday. We all loved it!

What a festive way to start the day! This morning, pupils from OHS and @cbppschool took part in one of our favourite annual events - the #festive fun run! Thank you to all the teachers that helped on the day and to the parents who were able to join us and cheer the children on.

Why leaders should only stay in post for 6-8 years, carving out time for "critical impact opportunities" and why losing hope means you should get out of leadership. Libby N is this month's How I Lead interviewee - a fascinating chat! tes.com/magazine/leade…

Thank you to Amity, Shreya, Aoife, Florence and Lily for leading assemblies throughout the week on the topic of International Women's Day. They discussed the importance of the day for celebrating women as well as looking ahead to what still needs to be done. #IWD2024

We are excited to announce that Consilium, an education group with a total of eight settings across Central Europe and Spain, has joined our family of schools. We warmly welcome all the staff, parents and pupils to the Dukes family!

Thrilled to announce this formally at last.🎉📢 The biggest thank you to my amazing team for 100s of hours researching, writing & collaborating with historians to produce #ChangingHistoriesKS3. Knowledge-rich as it should be: diverse, critical, coherent, woven with story magic🪄

Bassett House School are thrilled to share our recent ISI Inspection Report which rewarded us with a highly sought after 'Significant Strength'. bassetths.org.uk/bassetthousesc…

I gave a speech at the Policy Forum for Wales on Friday, setting out a range of recent evidence on curriculum reform, and calling for Welsh Government to reconsider the role of knowledge in the curriculum framework. #CfW Full video here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=D8rGC0…

A few people have asked me for a transcript of the speech I gave recently about Curriculum for Wales. #CfW Here it is, with a few useful sources linked in. tinyurl.com/kdj83js5 And the original video in case you missed it (viewed over 1k times now). youtube.com/watch?v=D8rGC0…

Wise words from the always wonderful Sir David Carter - so many us have benefitted from his coaching, kindness and example 💫👏🏻💪🏻♥️

Fantastic matinee performance this afternoon of Camden Calling, a musical written by our very own Miss Swailes! Well done our Upper School cast and crew 👏👏. Very much looking forward to the evening show! 🎭

I think my most nineteenth century belief is that we should all take our free time much more seriously. I wrote this on the virtues of self-education and against wasting time on screens thetimes.com/comment/column…