Archives: Head's Blog

The most common question I am asked as a Headmaster is: What is your vision for the School? Pass me a…
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Government, organisations, schools, families all face dilemmas in balancing potentially competing agendas. Issues around climate change and the environment are…
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In this blog series, I am reflecting upon Cranleigh’s values, Service, Relationships, Leadership and Excellence. Service: All in the community are…
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On 29th December, Toby Helm wrote an article in The Observer claiming that exam reforms were putting private school pupils…
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‘The artist…only after long and close observation do the scales drop from his eyes and he sees a beautiful pose,…
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Our archivist, Old Cranleighan Martin Williamson, came across this sermon preached in Chapel by John Purvis on Armistice morning in…
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Please read my previous blog, The Subtle Beauties for a fuller context. In 2011, natural historian and writer Mary Colwell…
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Prospective parents often ask me my opinions about co-education as opposed to single sex education. As the leader of a…
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Relationships: Strong relationships are fostered as a priority in a predominantly boarding community. Children flourish within safe, supportive environments. This…
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Four years ago we set down our Vision 150, setting out the direction for Cranleigh’s future. When a school’s founding…
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A school, a community, is a living, breathing, ever-changing wonderful being full of promise and challenge and suffering and love.…
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Mr Leamon, who has supported the School’s Environmental Action Group in its first year, reflects on the progress that has…
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We are just about to pilot a new rewards and sanctions policy. One of the reasons for doing so was…
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I cannot remember the last time I went shopping with my mother – I confess I was no James James…
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That really was the question of last term, and the School’s decision not to allow the Fourth Form to have…
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This blog continues a series on school values with a focus on leadership. This opening blog approaches the language we…
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This is the second in a series of blogs on Leadership. Please see the blogs What future for leadership? and…
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This is the third in a series on leadership. Please see What future for leadership? and Leading in Uncertain Times…
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This blog is a transcript of the March 2020 Colours Assembly podcast. Having had a week of virtual learning, a…
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Over the last few weeks of the Spring term, I can genuinely claim to have seen education in action in…
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This blog is part of a series in the spirit of ‘Cranleigh Thinking’, intended to provoke thought and debate and…
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In the spirit of Cranleigh Thinking, Head’s blogs are meant to provoke conversation around issues as it is through dialogue…
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After speaking at the annual Heads’ conference, several journalists were eager for a story, as I suppose were we. As…
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The end of November marks the beginning of reports season, the scramble to meet coursework deadlines and preparation for rehearsal…
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