Chronicle Summer 2023

15 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

‘A positive place … a happy school’ THE GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE 2023

What should parents look out for in the next academic year? What are the highlights to come? There has been so much change over the last two years that we’re looking for a little more continuity next year. At the same time, running a school is like riding a bike – if you stop, you fall over. The work on careers is going to be front and centre next year, and I’ve already mentioned some of our other plans on the academic side. We’re also going to be renewing our academic scholarship process in the Shell and the Lower Sixth and refining our reading strategy ’Time to Read’. The most exciting plans are in the co

teachers, “great positive energy in sport”, “every parent raved about their HM”. The things they said about pupils are even more important. They talked about the amazing work which they produce in Pathways and Perspectives, about their spectacular production of Othello, about the natural and inclusive relationships between them. If you asked me for my favourite line, this is it: “Parents universally told us that they sent their children to Teddies because they reckoned they’d be nicer people for it: and what greater compliment?”. I can’t think of one.

curriculum. We’re going to bring back the whole-school sports day, which disappeared a few years ago, and the inter-House bumping races on the Thames, which ran for 100 years before they stopped in the early 1970s. On the pastoral side, we’re creating new committees for pupils to have more of a voice in our policies and for more teachers to have a chance to shape our strategy. We’re also going to be doing much more training for staff and pupils on mental health. We are also going to finalise and publish our plans for the new centre for sport and the community on the Field Side – but that’s a subject for an interview in itself!

Flora McGill, Farah Changizi-Cooper and Freddie Banks by the Divinity School in Oxford