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Principal's Blog

Radnor House parents receive a Weekly Bulletin of news information, highlights of achievements and details of forthcoming events, as well as additional communications from other departments and individuals as necessary.

Our Principal, Darryl Wideman, also writes a regular blog to share his thoughts about education and the world with a wider audience, which you can read below.

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  • The Next Big Ideas

    Although there really should not be any excuse for teachers to lift up their heads and try to scan the horizon, particularly given the relatively generous amount of time we spend away from our working environment, it can nevertheless be a challenge to give due attention to what really matters rather...
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  • Thunks

    In ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’, Daniel Kahneman argues that we too often rush to judgement using the reactive part of our brain, when we would be better to proceed more slowly using the rational part of the brain. Appreciating that I spend a lot of time recommending books, this one would b...
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  • Resilience is a Process, not a Trait

    A friend of mine recently told me about one of his children who had been unsuccessful in a job interview. After a strong track record of academic success at school and a good degree from a top university, they had applied for a job they did not really want, but found the competitive edge getting sha...
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  • The Power of Words

    When asked in a competition in 2007 why a fifth of Americans were unable to locate their country on a world map, Miss Teen South Carolina, a high-school graduate, gave this answer in front of the rolling cameras: ‘I do personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some peopl...
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  • Excellence and Fun

    Last week, I attended a conference for heads organised by the Independent Schools Association (ISA). It was headlined as an induction conference for new heads, which felt slightly surreal given that I started my first headship in 2008! However, one of the aims of the meeting was to highlight the wor...
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  • Happy New Year!

    Whisper it quietly, but I am really quite pleased to be back at work this week. A break to recharge the batteries is always welcome and, as so often, what seemed to be impenetrable challenges a few weeks ago do not seem quite so difficult now that we are all refreshed. However, I usually find I only...
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  • Christmas Crackers

    There comes a time, usually about three days before the end of term, when the energy levels finally dip and the creative juices begin to dry up. In such circumstances, I usually find solace in the talents of others, so for this week’s blog I offer a selection of the best one-liners from the co...
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  • Enrichment, Enrichment, Enrichment

    Those of us fortunate to hear this week’s talk by James Shone, ‘I Can and I Am’, could not help but be impressed by his moving story of personal struggle after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, and the life lessons he has drawn from such a traumatic experience. There was much to...
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  • Asking the Right Questions

    We have been looking at facts in this week’s assemblies and thinking about how best we can use them. Fake news may be one of the best known phrases of the decade, but our species has been making things up since the first day of our existence, so it is hardly a revealing surprise that we live i...
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  • What's the Plan, Stan?

    This is a phrase that has come to feature regularly in our household over the years. I have no idea where it came from or when it was first used, but it is usually asked at least once a day as we try to co-ordinate diaries and work out how many people will be home for dinner, even if Stan himself ne...
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  • Healing the Divisions

    Last week, I attended a lecture by Tim Marshall, the journalist and author who has written a series of books about how geography, flags, and walls and fences are creating problems around the world. Mr Marshall is a very entertaining speaker who provided a thought-provoking evening, highlighting how...
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  • Acts of Remembrance

    On Friday 9th November, we held assemblies for all the pupils to focus on our Acts of Remembrance. This week’s blog is the text of what I said to them by way of introduction.
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