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Category: Staff Blogs
How to talk about drugs and alcohol with your children
The end of exams, as well as the arrival of the summer holidays, heralds a time of celebration and relaxation for students across the country. It is natural for them…
Reading for Pleasure
Our role as a school is to open minds to more than just subjects; we’re here to educate our students in the widest possible sense. To that end we have…
Why We Should Ban the Word ‘Failure’
I recently listened to an audiobook called ‘The Stoic Challenge’. Stoicism is a school of philosophy that hails from ancient Greece and Rome and explores how we can face challenging…
There’s always a need for girl power!
At a recent open event, a prospective parent asked me why he should choose a girls’ school for his daughter. Surely, he said, in this day and age it’s obvious…
Building Partnerships
Joining a new school in your first headship during Covid would be challenging enough, without the simultaneous decision to turbo charge your school’s partnerships work. This was the challenge facing…
Why the world needs to be more Unitarian
As the only Unitarian school in the UK, Channing has close links with Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel in Hampstead. Their Minister, Reverend Kate Dean, talked to us recently in assembly…
Fostering Fearless Learners: A Journey to Overcoming the Fear of Failure
A fear of failure is a well-documented attribute of many young people – especially high-achieving, bright girls – which can contribute to mental health issues and stop them making the…
What does the rise of Artificial Intelligence mean for schools?
If you have teenagers the chances are you’ve heard of Snapchat. But do you know about the new ‘My AI’ chatbot feature? It’s a friendly, chatty little bot and a…