
Award Winning Teacher - Dr Caroline Neuberg
Fulneck School is delighted to announce that our Head of Science and Assistant Principal Dr Caroline Neuberg has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Patrick Moore Medal.
Fulneck School is delighted to announce that our Head of Science and Assistant Principal Dr Caroline Neuberg has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Patrick Moore Medal.
There is a famous view that great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and that small minds discuss people. I’m not totally convinced – great change comes through great people – but I get the idea.
As 2019 comes to a close we start to reflect back on our pupils achievements.
At some point in History or RS lessons, you will have learnt about the dangers of stereotyping groups of people. This attitude over-generalises about different sectors of society, making the lazy assumption that “they are all the same”. The danger is that this then prejudices our approach to individuals within those groups.
In the late 1950s, a young man looked down on the plains of Kenya and thought there must be more to life. It’s not that there was anything wrong with his life – herding goats – but there were so many things that needed fixing in his country.
“A fight is going on inside me”, he explains to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, arrogance, self-pity, resentment and ego.
Last weekend we saw a start to our ‘contributing to the community’ primary school event. Thirty five primary school children attended our science of survival event which was hosted at Fulneck School.
John Amos Comenius was a 17th century educational pioneer, theologian and Bishop of the Moravian Church. Known as the father of modern education, Comenius argued for equality in school provision: that both boys and girls should be educated – not a common position to hold in his lifetime – as well as poor children.
It’s far too long ago for any of you to remember, but Peter Sissons was a BBC journalist and newsreader. He retired back in 2009, having hosted Question Time, presented the 10 o’clock news and, perhaps most famously, received death threats following an interview with the Iranian ambassador about Salman Rushdie.
How many of you are aware of the exploits of Jaden Ashman? Jaden has just gone back to school having won £1m coming second in the Fortnite World Cup. I’m sure you expect me to have nothing positive to say about this!
Do you remember where you were when …? This is a question you will have been asked or you are going to be asked at some point in the future
Welcome back everyone! A particularly warm welcome to all our new pupils. We have people starting in every year from Year 7 to the Upper Sixth. Wherever you were before today, as far as I am concerned, you are now all “Fulneck”.
It has been another year of academic success at Fulneck School, with the pupils’ “Work hard, be kind” ethos seeing them rewarded with some excellent results.
Under the newly reformed post-16 qualifications, excellent results require a combination of sound work ethic from the students, dedication from the teachers and support from parents.
Last week we were joined by parents, governors and friends of the school to celebrate the successes of our students. Read the Principals full address here.
So far this year, our teachers have awarded 103 Commendations for displays of these 5 key attributes? Don’t waste the last month of term. What can you do in the next four weeks to add one to your achievements this year?
Great leaders do not fear standing up for their views. Be brave and stand up for what is right.
As you leave Fulneck School, please remember that you will always be a part of the brotherhood and sisterhood of Fulneck and be very welcome here.
Investing in experiences will bring you greater happiness than a new car. If you have to buy “stuff”, buy it for someone else, also proven to make you happier by the end of the day.
What does it mean to be happy? What if there is a link between your happiness and performance at school? And what if we are able to improve that level, even if only by a few percent?
Make sure you can look yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you couldn’t have given it any more.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Whilst we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.”
Our brains are wired incredibly cleverly to allow us to solve complex problems.