What is school for and why does it matter? The Making of Her asks the big questions. What are the challenges facing students and their teachers today? How do we educate girls to become tomorrow’s leaders? What is the role of a school in a modern, virtual world? This book takes a provocative look at our education system, laying bare the day-to-day experience of school for students, teachers and families. Now, in the twenty-first century, what does it take for every student, regardless of background, to find their passion, reach towards excellence and flourish? Clarissa Farr pulls together everything she has learned during her extraordinary leadership career into a message for our time. If we care about the future for our schools and young people, here are the changes we must make.
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Clarissa Farr. The Making of Her: Why School Matters
THE MAKING OF HER. Why School Matters. Clarissa Farr
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
CHAPTER 1. September. Back to school – ‘the make-believe of a beginning’
CHAPTER 2. October. A question of gender – still vindicating the rights of women?
CHAPTER 3. November. Headship – opening up the path on which the next generation will travel
CHAPTER 4. December. Living in community – the love of tradition and the role of co-curricular life
CHAPTER 5. January. Competition and cooperation – what kind of education do we want for our children?
CHAPTER 6. February. Be a teacher – be the one you are
CHAPTER 7. March. Promoting well-being and mental health – a twenty-first-century challenge
CHAPTER 8. April. When things go wrong – running with risk, facing up to failure, living with loss
CHAPTER 9. May. Creating the triangle of trust – working with today’s parents
CHAPTER 10. June. Valediction and looking to the future
Afterword
Notes. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Remembering my parents, Alan and Wendy Farr
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• Team GB won nineteen gold medals, the most since a hundred years ago when the games were here in London at White City.
We all have a natural desire to strive for success, but even for Olympic athletes, such success does not come easily. In swimming, for example, the Dutch athlete Marten Van Der Weijden, who won the open water event, was six years ago in hospital with leukaemia. He said: ‘My illness taught me to think step by step, to think about the next hour, to be patient – the same strategy I chose here to take my moment, to take the lead.’ That was a truly inspirational win. Natalie du Toit, of South Africa, a top-flight international swimmer who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in 2001, competed in the same event. She said: ‘I want to do everything on merit – this is not just a free ride.’ And things did not always come easily either to Michael Phelps, USA, who won eight gold medals (the greatest number ever in a single Olympics). He had struggled at nursery school with attention deficit disorder.
