Category: Looking To The Future

Moving the school forwards to provide a better environment for pupils to learn and grow.

Back to the future: examinations at 16

Posted on 19 November 2012, under Looking To The Future

Back in June 1988, when she was 15 and dinosaurs still roamed the planet, my wife was one of the first cohort to sit GCSE exams replacing the old O Level. My son now faces the prospect, in 2017, of being one of the first pupils to sit… well what, I’m not quite sure. Two [...]

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By Simon Smith with no comments

The nature of History in 2021

Posted on 24 February 2012, under Looking To The Future

I spent the first weekend of half term at the brand new IB offices in The Hague helping to put together ideas for a new IB history syllabus that will not be taught until 2015 (and that would last until 2022 and cannot be changed on the whim of any government!) A group of seven history [...]

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Leaders as learners and learners as leaders

Posted on 21 November 2011, under Looking To The Future

Last month I was fortunate enough to attend, on behalf of the Master, the biannual IB World Heads Conference in Singapore. It was an extraordinary experience. 450 other Heads from 5 continents, or in IB speak 3 Regions, gathered at the United World College South East Asia; a remarkable campus only 10 weeks old and [...]

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By Simon Smith with 1 comment