Our Blogs

Sports Blog: Sticks and Skis
Half-term sports trips included gave our Senior hockey players experience of Spain's top training facilities and our Senior Prep a taste of Austria's sunny ski slopes.
Pre-Prep Blog: Hand in Glove
Fiona Walker's reflections on her first six months as Head of Pre-Prep range from the power of teamwork in teaching Maths and instilling resilience to...
Pastorally Speaking: Let's Talk about Sex (again)!
How can parents normalise talking about sex to their children? Andy Woodward suggests ways of starting a conversation and explains what Harrodian is...
Pastorally Speaking: Compassion: the Pillar of a Society that Cares
Compassion means taking a conscious decision to educate ourselves about others' experiences and feelings. And that is an important step we want to help our pupils to try and take, argues Andy Woodward.
Pastorally Speaking: What would Queen Victoria do?
Unfashionable as Victorian morality may be, Andy Woodward wonders if the era's educationalists do still have something to teach us about building...
Head's Blog: Mixing Surrey and Seoul
Our Autumn Concert prompts the Head to reflect on what makes Harrodian music special and to welcome our new Director of Music, Kay Le Doujet, whose...
Author: James Hooke
Sports Blog: Heading South
Sporting trips – like the half-term visits to Cape Town,(above) and Dubai (below) – provide huge pleasure, lasting memories and personal growth to...
Pre-Prep Blog: Our Plan for Reading
In her first blog, Fiona Walker, our new Head of Pre-Prep, (shown above at our recent Phonics Workshop) explains why she sees reading as 'the bedrock...
Head's Blog: In Full Flow
Headmaster James Hooke reflects on one of the busiest weeks in Harrodian's summer calendar. The Harrodian staff meeting I lead in the dining room...
Author: James Hooke
Prep Blog: Science and Nature
Clair Foster reports on Lower Prep news including the 10s first sherbet-flavoured taste of Lab Science and their Bushcraft trip to Oxfordshire and the 8s' and 9s' sunny summer visit to the Wetlands Centre
Author: taryn