Parents may be interested in the Girls' School Association President's weekly column with the Online Daily Telegraph at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3534179/Vicky-Tuck-Parents-swamped-by-advice.html
This week Vicky Tuck writes about parents being swamped by advice about their children.
Monday 1 December 2008
Friday 21 November 2008
GSA Conference
I have just returned from the annual conference of the Girls' School Association, where the president, Vicky Tuck, spoke of the pressures on girls and young women in the modern world. You may have seen the press reports.
She said that girls are growing up in a 'Botox and binge-drinking' culture and a 'toxic cocktail' of pressure to consume vast quantities of alcohol and dress and act sexily.
She claimed society has forgotten 'the craft of parenting' and parents too often treated their daughters as friends.
Many wanted single sex girls' schools for their offspring in a desperate attempt to 'prolong the wholesomeness of childhood', she said. But schools were increasingly forced to teach in a 'moral vacuum' amid the spread of lap- dancing clubs, the worst excesses of the internet and coarse behaviour and language.
I wonder whether parents agree with her views of the pressures on their daughters?
She said that girls are growing up in a 'Botox and binge-drinking' culture and a 'toxic cocktail' of pressure to consume vast quantities of alcohol and dress and act sexily.
She claimed society has forgotten 'the craft of parenting' and parents too often treated their daughters as friends.
Many wanted single sex girls' schools for their offspring in a desperate attempt to 'prolong the wholesomeness of childhood', she said. But schools were increasingly forced to teach in a 'moral vacuum' amid the spread of lap- dancing clubs, the worst excesses of the internet and coarse behaviour and language.
I wonder whether parents agree with her views of the pressures on their daughters?
Saturday 15 November 2008
Prize Giving
Welcome to my blog and I hope that it will prove to be an interesting way to maintain communication with parents.
My thanks to all the parents and friends of the school who attended our Prize Giving on Thursday 13 November.
Lots of you have said to me and to others how inspirational you found Anna Hemming's speech. Her message, that we all have a talent or ability and that if we work hard we can be the best that we can be, struck a chord with girls and parents.
I know that some parents and girls were not able to or chose not to attend the evening. I think this is a great pity. It is one of the most important occasions in the school year, where we come together as a whole school community to celebrate what makes St Andrew's special.
If you have a view on whether a different date, time and location for our prize giving would enable more parents and girls to attend, or if you have any other comment on Prize Giving, please post a comment here.
My thanks to all the parents and friends of the school who attended our Prize Giving on Thursday 13 November.
Lots of you have said to me and to others how inspirational you found Anna Hemming's speech. Her message, that we all have a talent or ability and that if we work hard we can be the best that we can be, struck a chord with girls and parents.
I know that some parents and girls were not able to or chose not to attend the evening. I think this is a great pity. It is one of the most important occasions in the school year, where we come together as a whole school community to celebrate what makes St Andrew's special.
If you have a view on whether a different date, time and location for our prize giving would enable more parents and girls to attend, or if you have any other comment on Prize Giving, please post a comment here.
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