What Covid taught us – five years on

22nd March 2020. The younger children skipped out to their parents as usual, blissfully unaware of the water rising up the school drive. First mentioned on distant shores. Then on Italian slopes. And now at our door. The older children were more frenetic, understanding the strangeness, but with no reference point with which to anchor […]

You are the thin white line.

This week Blackhorse Primary School turned 20. Well… almost… the current ‘new’ building turned 20 – the school itself existed on another site since 1958. And to celebrate this milestone, we held a special day of celebration with children displaying their work focused on the school’s history, and with my good friend (and the Deputy […]

Goodbye to all that

With Richi firing the starting pistol of the next General Election on 4th July, the party for the Tories, literally and metaphorically, looks to be over. If it was a house party, the last revellers would be bringing the night to a chaotic close. Gillian Keegan and Esther McVey would be draining the last of […]