When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴² In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! ⁴³ But why am I so favoured, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴ As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Luke 1:41-44

I was lucky enough to take two weeks’ leave recently but found it quite challenging to fully step away from work because the final report of the National Curriculum and Assessment Review was published halfway through my holiday.

³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’^[a] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’^[b] There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12: 30-31

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11    Dear Colleagues and Friends,  Doesn’t t

Championing Education - Daylight to Darkness: Remembering the men that flew in The Battle of Heligoland Bight 18 December 1939 tells the human story behind the statistics of the first named air battle of WWll. A battle that many had not registered but one which had significant impact on the strategy of Bomber Command

Dear Colleagues and Friends, When on your summer holidays, have your ever seen little towers of stones on the beach?   I recall holidaying in St Ives one year, when there seemed to be a craze  of building these. They were towers of