2020

Winning streak

A record number of GDST schools have been shortlisted in the prestigious Independent Schools of the Year Award 2020.

All subjects must embrace diversity – and at all ages

Issues of race, diversity and inequality must be tackled by all subjects – not just history, writes Dr Kevin Stannard

Living better for longer with Polly

A group of four Notting Hill & Ealing High School girls from Year 10 and 12 have reached the finals of the national Longitude Explorer competition, run by Nesta.

GDST Debating Tournament

14 schools and over 100 students from across the GDST took part in the first ever GDST debating tournament.

The whole is greater…

If we apply “holism” thinking, and encourage collaboraton, more can be achieved in education and professional learning.

Forging a New Model of Education

Let’s seize this chance to build a new model of education that better reflects the world today, says Kevin Stannard

My Shelfie

Afua Hirsch, author and broadcaster, and Wimbledon High School alumna takes us through the books that have delighted and inspired her.

Change Maker

Discover how Howell’s Alumna, Chloe Smith, set up Big Moose Coffee – now a fully operational coffee shop and event space employing 22 staff.

Social change through film

We talk to Blackheath High School alumna Dominique Unsworth who founded social enterprise Resource Productions, an organisation that nurtures talent of all ages and backgrounds to enable creativity and effect social change through film.

A family of schools

23 independent schools and two academies in England and Wales