This page collects all of the posts created by the Headmaster of Rossall School. These are reflections on a very wide range of topics related to education, history, and ethics.
In a dusty corner of the music department storeroom there lies a battered old instrument case. Inside, is a rather splendid Boosey and Hawkes wooden flute dating from the mid-1930s.Read More
It is easy for us to find meaning in endless activity but when we are alone with our thoughts we tend to be troubled by existential angst. If everything is...Read More
Almost three hundred Old Rossallians are known to have died during the course of the First World War. It is impossible for us to comprehend the monumental loss that must...Read More
On the surface, Barbie is a sleek, plastic and vacuous manifestation of modern capitalism. Her ubiquity and superficiality renders her unknowable. She is a blank canvas upon which girls can...Read More