Showing posts with label GSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GSA. Show all posts

Friday, 9 January 2009

New Website Launched by the Girls' School Association

The Girls' School Association (GSA) has today launched a website called My Daughter.

http://www.mydaughter.co.uk/

One of the site's aims is to support parents in raising their daughters.

Do take a look.

Tuesday, 6 January 2009

New Year, New Term

A new year and a new term always brings a sense of anticipation and excitement. This year these feelings are tempered by the economic and international news.

However, here at St Andrew's we are anticipating a good term of hard work and achievement for all.

The new Nursery with it extended hours, ages and weeks has begun and new children have joined us.

Please do vote in the poll opposite about the timing of Prize Giving.

The latest online column by Vicky Tuck, the President of the Girls' School Association, can be accessed here.

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/4045620/Vicky-Tuck-Dear-Prime-Minister.html

Monday, 1 December 2008

GSA President now has weekly column with the Online Daily Telegraph

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.

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?