Redefining Education: How Small Independent Schools Like Great Ballard Are Pioneering a Forward-Thinking Curriculum that Teaches Children Not Just How to Learn but How to Live
Go Beyond students participated in the Faraday Challenge Day, designed to be cross curricular and cover hands on activities spanning science, technology, engineering and maths.
Last week we hosted our first ever whole school Art Exhibition at Great Ballard.
Thank you to all who attended and we look forward to seeing you all next year for the annual show.
We were delighted to be part of an online 24-hour read-a-thon of all of Milton's works (a Miltonathon). Readings came from all around the world in the 24-hour period.
You know there is something wrong in your school when sport is solely about winning at all costs and cookery is about bringing home cookies and cakes in a Tupperware box.
"Once you get over yourself," says Matt King, headmaster of Great Ballard School, you can have "the joy of appointing people who are so much better than you."
Today the interim report from the Play Commission has been published and its findings are disheartening. Time spent playing outdoors has declined by 50% in a generation.
