Andy Kemp

Developing Student Leadership – Sport

By Andy | June 1, 2021 | 1 Comment

Part two in my series on developing student leadership. This article focuses on how sport can be used to develop those crucial leadership skills. This article is co-written with the excellent Alex Battison, Senior Deputy Head of Lord Wandsworth College Developing Student Leadership through Sport – Independent Schools Magazine

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Developing Student Leadership

By Andy | May 21, 2021 | 1 Comment

I’m currently working on a series of articles for Independent Schools Magazine looking at how we can best develop the leadership potential in the young people in our care. The first article in the series is below, look out for more in the coming months where we will look at how topics like music, drama, […]

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Less, More and None (2021)

By Andy | January 2, 2021 | 0 Comment

Back in January 2020 I used the ‘Less, More and None‘ approach to target setting to reflect on what I hoped to achieve in 2020. Below are my targets for 2021 as well as my reflections on how I got on 2020! Less Wasting Time on Rolling News – It’s been too easy this last […]

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Resources for Teachers during COVID19 closures

By Andy | March 23, 2020 | 0 Comment

There has been significant generosity shown by many within the education sector to support the continued education of children around the world whilst schools are closed. Below is a list of the resources I’ve found which might be of interest to others: JCS are an aggregator of online resources and are providing free access to […]

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Policy Management

By Andy | January 9, 2016 | 2 Comment

With an increasingly complicated inspection framework, which seems to change every time you look away, the management of policy documents has become increasingly difficult, and at the same time increasingly important! The days where a school could maintain a collection of staff handbooks containing all the school policies are all but gone, as keeping them […]

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Comparison of VLE solutions

By Andy | April 9, 2009 | 3 Comment

I should start from the outset by saying that I have no affiliation with any of the companies mentioned below and the opinions expressed here are solely mine and do not reflect the opinions of anyone I have or currently work for… With that out the way I guess I should start by saying over the course […]

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Problems Pages…

By Andy | April 1, 2005 | 0 Comment

I came across this Problem Bank website a few months back but noticed that it has recently moved and also undergone a UI update.

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The Max Box Problem

By Andy | March 26, 2005 | 2 Comment

As part of mt PGCE course I had to create an ICT resource to teach some element of the Maths Curriculum. I decided to try and tackle the traditional Max Box Problem in which you are presented with a sheet (in this case of paper, but it could be anything) and asked to find the […]

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