Cheadle Hulme

education

Making Mistakes

When we are prepared to make mistakes, we become more adventurous in the process, pushing the boundaries of our normal comfort zone and stretching our capacity for learning. If we always played it safe, we might always ‘get it right’ but once we reach those more momentous landmarks in our life – A Level results, the let-down after a job interview – our ability to deal with the unexpected becomes more difficult.

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education

Co-Education: The Natural Choice

The time worn line is that boys and girls ‘do better’ at single sex schools. Do they? Really? Often, those who cite the line as fact will hold up the crème de la crème of single sex schools as proof of the statement’s fundamental truth; but it is not the singularity of the gender that leads to such schools’ high performance – it is rather the exclusivity of their academic selection.

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