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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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  • What was wrong with A?

    I have been doing quite an intensive round of presentations to prospective parents in recent weeks, as we head towards the entrance exam season, part of which has been trying to explain the nuances of the new GCSE grading system introduced this year. This has coincided with a moment of epiphany, wit...
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  • Factfulness

    Spoiler alert: if you have not read ‘Factfulness’ and are waiting to do so, you might want to read someone else’s blog this week!
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  • The Challenge of Choice

    The admissions season has come round again very quickly this year, if indeed it ever went away. In the same way that it probably won’t be long until shops display Christmas products all year round, so it may well be the case that school marketing and recruitment are no longer seasonal but perm...
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  • The Fascination of History

    The great thing about being a history teacher, particularly doing it over several years (well, a few more than several in my case!), is that you get to learn about a broad swathe of time. In the early stages of my career, I specialised in teaching Nazi Germany. The paper was based on translated docu...
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  • The Power of an Inspirational Teacher

    "We are all changed by those who teach us. We may not realise it at the time, but those who inspire us stay with us in so many ways all the way through our lives."
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  • Back to School for a Happy New Year

    I once worked for a head who annually claimed that the return to school in September was his favourite time of the year. As a classroom teacher trying to locate the textbooks I needed or struggling to remember my school network password, I found it hard back then to share his unrelenting optimism. H...
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  • The Head's Prize Giving Address 2018

    They say a good speech should have a good beginning and a good ending, and the two shouldn’t be too far apart, so let’s see if we can make that happen in the next few minutes.
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  • Some Like It Hot

    President Abraham Lincoln famously remarked that you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.
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  • The Power of Teamwork

    The most interesting books I have read recently are by Professor Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind’ and ‘Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow’, which offer respectively a broad sweep of human history and a decidedly bleak prediction for...
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  • Let the Games Begin

    As night follows day, it is usually only a matter of time before I end up talking about football, so in the week where the World Cup gets underway, there was an inevitability that it would surface as the theme of this blog. Gary Lineker once said, “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men cha...
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  • Hooray for Diffendoofer Day

    Following on from the last blog, I wanted to share something else that Barry Hymer talked about at the conference I recently attended. He started his keynote talk with a reference to a work by Doctor Seuss that I confess was completely unknown to me. Like many people, I suppose, I am familiar with s...
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  • I Think Thinking is So Important, My Lord

    ‘Today I learned to tell the time but I’m not sure it exists.’
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