Category Archives: State Boarding

Taking the lead: board meeting

Headteachers of both state and private boarding schools held their annual gathering recently. What do you need for a good conference? A good hotel, great food, convivial company and star speakers. Apart from losing education secretary Michael Gove at the last minute, the Boarding Schools’ Association, of which 38 are state boarding schools, did well… Read More: Taking the lead: board meeting »

A whole new kind of training

In the summer of 2011, I visited Monmouth School and picked my way through the builders’ debris while Head Steven Connors talked me through the vision of how the new boarding house would look ‘in just a few months’. And he was right. So it was a delight to be able to attend the opening… Read More: A whole new kind of training »