Reclaim Your Focus!
During a Chapel assembly in September, I invited the whole school community to join me in a social media detox. The…
The Donaldson Programme & Award
On 10th May, Ms Laura Holloway spoke to the students about the history behind, and the importance of the Donaldson Programme…
Critical and Creative Thinking at St Mary’s Calne: Part 1
Mr Marc Thomas, Head of Critical Thinking and Religious Studies, discusses what critical and creative thinking is, its importance in education,…
Remote Learning: One Year On
It is now just over a year since the first lockdown was brought into force and schools across the UK and…
Sixth & Fifth Form Book Clubs
Sixth Form Book Club 'What do I think of Middlemarch?' asked the great American poet Emily Dickinson. 'What do I think…
Fourth Form Book Clubs this Half Term
Remote learning is no barrier to Book Clubs and the Fourth Form Book Clubs got up and running this week with…
A Room With a View: Niki de Saint Phalle – Home Is Where The Heart Is
In 2015, outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Louise Bourgeois’ enormous Maman – a monumental, matriarchal representation of a spider – was…
Read for Good 2020
This week, the Fourth Form English teachers are launching Read for Good 2020! Over the last eight years, St Mary's Calne…
A Room With A View – An Inverted World: Italian Art Post-Modernism
After the Second World War, Pop Artists and Neo-Dadaists went further than their Modernist forebears in the deconstruction of boundaries between…
Year 8 Virtual Book Club
14th June 2020 – Lampie and the Children of the Sea, Annet Schaap. As well as their own individual reading choices, Year…