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August 31, 2023
Q&A with Dominic Rose of the Cedars School, Croydon
August 31, 2023
What did you do prior to becoming headmaster of the Cedars and how long have you been in the role? Prior to taking up my post as Headmaster of The Cedars School this September, I was Head of Sixth Form at St Bede’s College, Manchester, for two years and a member of the Senior Leadership
Q&A with Charlotte Avery of St Mary’s School, Cambridge
August 31, 2023
Charlotte Avery, Head of St Mary’s School, Cambridge, discusses what attracted her to what is now the only single-sex school in Cambridgeshire. What did you do prior to becoming headmistress of St Mary’s School, Cambridge? I was the first female deputy head in Highgate School’s 400+ year history. My role was to oversee the introduction of
How good was Good Queen Bess?
August 31, 2023
An ex-Anglican re-learns history. It is surprising how many things we accept second hand and assume they are true without questioning them. In my case, the process of becoming a Catholic has meant re-learning my history. This is embarrassing. I considered myself an amateur but relatively well informed historian. So as someone who is constantly
Q&A with Rachel Owens and Antony Hudson of St George’s School, Weybridge
August 31, 2023
The following answers are from Rachel Owens, head of St George’s Senior School/College: What did you do prior to becoming head of St George’s and how long have you been in the role? I was Head of St George’s, Ascot from 2011 to 2016, then here from 2016. What is your subject and do you
Q&A with Johneen McPherson of St Catherine’s School, Twickenham
August 31, 2023
What did you do prior to becoming Headmistress of St Catherine’s and how long have you been in the role? I have been Headmistress for five years and prior to that I was deputy head academic at St Mary’s Ascot. What is your subject and do you still teach at all? Teaching English has always
Q&A with Richard Berlie of St Anthony’s Boys, Hampstead
August 31, 2023
How do you incorporate the Catholic faith into school life? Whole school Mass is celebrated at least once a term usually on a Holy day of Obligation and on Ash Wednesday. The school’s assistant chaplain intends to offer Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the new academic year.  Year group Masses are celebrated in the
Q&A with Ben Horan of Prior Park College
August 31, 2023
What did you do prior to becoming headmaster of Prior Park College and how long have you been in the role? I joined Prior as Head in 2019. Before that I was at Merchant Taylors’ School in London, where I was the senior deputy head for five years. I was head of History at Eton
Q&A with Margaret Giblin of Marymount International School
August 31, 2023
How often do you offer Mass, Benediction, etc, and where? Do pupils attend confession? All significant events in the school year are marked by whole school Mass where the community gather together. We have wonderful participation by our students who serve, are ministers of the Word and contribute to the liturgical prayers and music.  In
Q&A with John Paget-Tomlinson of Leweston School
August 31, 2023
How often do you offer Mass, Benediction, etc, and where? Do pupils attend Confession? Mass for the whole school takes place on Wednesday morning in the School Chapel. Boarders’ Mass takes place once a week at St Aldhelms in Sherborne (we have moved this  because we want to create a sense of comm-unity with the
Oppenheimer, reviewed by Julia Hamilton
August 31, 2023
The film’s events are magnetically clustered around Los Alamos, finds Julia Hamilton. If you thought that Christopher Nolan’s last film, Dunkirk, was over-rated unhistorical nonsense – I confess I did – then Oppenheimer, his latest, starring Cillian Murphy in the performance of his life as the Faustian over-reacher that was Oppenheimer (or “Oppie”, as his
Q&A with Adam Hall of the Cardinal Pole School
August 31, 2023
What did you do prior to becoming headmaster of Cardinal Pole Catholic School? I started my career in 2007 teaching Religious Studies, before becoming Head of RE at the Ursuline Academy Ilford in 2009. In 2014 I moved to Cardinal Pole as an assistant headteacher, before becoming deputy headteacher two years later. I was appointed
Joseph Roth: Riddles and reinvention
August 31, 2023
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth Keiron Pim Granta, £25, 544 pages It is easiest to imagine Joseph Roth – the most elegaic writer of interwar Europe – hunched over some Stammtisch and scribbling. Whether as a young aspiring author in the newborn Austrian republic, or as the august and dazzlingly talented sot of his
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