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CONTENTS
SPRING 2010
News
7 News A round up of school news, including
upcoming open days
Leyland assesses the options
13 The Week Education stories from The Week
Finance
Schools: past,
50 The in and out club Sarah Edworthy asks: Do
present and future
parents need to pay their way all the time?
54 Bank accounts Sara McDonnell asks when is
22 Past: Anniversaries – St Swithun’s celebrates the best age to open one? Plus advice on trust
125 years as a girl’s public school funds from Bircham Dyson Bell
24 Present: Headlines – Summer Fields’ incoming
headmaster defends boarding prep schools
26 Future: Pupil Molly Williams represents Oundle
Health
in The Times Spelling Bee
57 What’s in your bowl? asks Victoria Lambert
of school meals
Comment
58 Do the eyes have it? Annabel Heseltine
discovers that not everyone is getting their
16 Comment Dr John Saxbee, the Bishop of
children’s eyes tested
Lincoln, argues the case for the hymn book 60 Agony aunt Jackie Harland answers your
49 Inside story Jo Hearnden expains the role of
questions
the modern school governor
Lifestyle
Education
63 Gadgets: School runners – First Eleven’s
18 School’s profile Cristina Odone discovers that
favourite family cars
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convent schools have modernised 67 Travel Liza Campbell takes her teenage son
28 School rules Max Davidson suggests that a
on an affordable Grecian holiday
good school doesn’t need to be strict 75 Travel Can gap years be safe? asks
32 Government policy Are any of the parties
Sara McDonnell
supporting private schools? asks Alice Thomson 71 Kit bag What’s in your suitcase?
36 Facilities How much should schools spend on
their facilities? questions Adam Ruck
School’s out
In focus: Dyslexia
79 Parent’s notebook Where you talk to us
80 Where are they now? Bright sparks in the
40 Dyslexia Annabel Heseltine explores the issues outside world
and asks: Is it a learning disability?
82 School memories Santa Montefiore remembers
45 Mainstream vs special school? Violet Naylor her halcyon days at Hanford
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