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Drive to the finish line #2

Kristian Still 17 Mar ’13 17 Mar ’13

Hard Facts An afternoon crunching numbers on the Office for National Statistics gives you the hard facts of the value of GCSEs qualifications. Based on hourly pay differences, year differences and an inflated 50 year work life, examples were contextualised and …

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Drive to the finish line

Kristian Still 9 Mar ’13 17 Mar ’13

This Friday, The Wellington Academy Yr11 ‘Drive to the finishline’ committee met and shared their 31 point plan to support students. The breadth and coverage of this plan is impressive, the committment to it even greater. In my new role, one area …

I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …
No rescuing3 Nov ’24
Do not do for someone, that they can do for themselves. This is a life, teaching, leading, parental sentiment or wisdom that I have long held important. It sits along side the notion of “no rescuing.” This is the focus on this post and thinking. …
Teams – Day 3 (part 2)2 Nov ’24
Prioritising time to write has not made it to the top of the priorities list until today (the end of half-term). That is a failing on my part. With hindsight, I should have planned and scheduled less. I am not comfortable accepting that “writing, thinking …
Yuimaru – ‘a circle of people’26 Oct ’24
It started with reading sports team Coach biographies. John Wooden, Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski (Basketball), Sir Alex Ferguson, Johan Cruyff, Anson Dorrance (Football), Sir Clive Woodward and James Kerr’s Legacy (Rugby) and Dave Brailsford (Cycling) and there were plenty others. It turns out, many of …