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As ever it is a delight to introduce the latest
edition of Rhubarb. You will notice that there
is a strong flavour of co-education within the
pages that follow and that is no surprise for we
are at the 20th anniversary of full co-education
here at the School.
Co-education is important to us. It is part
of an educational philosophy that aims to
create young men and women who are fit to
navigate the world of the future. Co-education
is not, of course, only area of development in
educational outlook of the School. With the
press recently full of stories about the future
prospects for all types of employment given
the rise of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
(the most recent report published earlier
this month by PwC was much trailed in the
national broadsheets) what should we, who
are involved in the education of young people
heading out into the world in the late 2020s,
be doing?
One of the inspirations for the current
approach here is a book by Howard Gardner,
the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and
Education at Harvard called
Five Minds for the
Future
. Gardner’s “Minds” are described as
follows:
• The disciplined mind has mastered at least
one way of thinking – a distinctive mode
of cognition that characterises a specific
scholarly discipline, a craft, or a profession.
• The synthesising mind takes information
from disparate sources, understands and
evaluates that information objectively, and
puts it together in ways that make sense to
the synthesizer and also to other persons.
• The creating mind breaks new ground. It
puts forward new ideas, poses unfamiliar
questions, conjures up fresh ways of
thinking and arrives at unexpected answers.
• The respectful mind notes and welcomes
differences among human individuals and
groups, tries to understand these “others”,
and seeks to work effectively with them.
• The ethical mind ponders the nature of
one’s work and the needs and desires of
the society in which one lives.
At school, the disciplined mind very much
represents the academic work or the gaining
of significant skill in a particular area. We
have also been pushing forward through the
academic work, and in particular through our
developing pedagogy, the synthesising mind
in our pupils – they are increasingly used
to taking diverse information and putting it
Welcome to the latest issue of
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This year we are celebrating the 20th
anniversary of full co-education and the 35th
anniversary of the first female pupil to attend
the School, and what better way to do it
than interviewing women who have forged
a range of different and exciting careers.
We are pleased to announce the opening
of the Ogston Music School, and say thank
you to those who took part in the summer’s
Telethon Campaign.
Finally, as it is my last issue, I wish to say
thank you to the OSE community for making
me feel so welcome, and hope my successor
will enjoy the role as much as I have.
Society
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Features
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
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Archives
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Congratulations
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OSE in Business
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OSE News
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Obituaries
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Events
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Martyrs Reports
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Valete
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Contacts
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Contents
Keeping Up to Date
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together in interesting and innovative ways.
I hope that Teddies continues to be strong
in developing the respectful and the ethical
minds, and the nurturing of the creating
mind is the area in which I am perhaps most
interested. Creativity in the school setting
should not be restricted to the arts – Art,
Dance, Drama and Music – but should
be inspired by them. It should manifest
itself in both the formal and the informal
curricula, and across all subjects. It is for the
development of all of these attributes that
pupils should go to school and we continue to
find ways of pushing forward the boundaries
of real education for the future success and
opportunities of all of our pupils.