Melvyn Roffe

Sep 11, 2024 | schoolmanagementplus.com | Helen Pike |Simon Larter-Evans |Sam Hart |Melvyn Roffe

Yarm Preparatory School is part of Yarm School, a thriving independent school in the North East, situated in a vibrant market town on the banks of the river Tees. Yarm is a modern school which was founded in a unique way by a group of parents and a pioneering headmaster.

Nov 20, 2023 | tes.com | Melvyn Roffe

Something reminded me last week of the famous paradox in the novel The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in which the character Tancredi Falconeri says: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”But in talking about education reform at the School Leaders Scotland (SLS) conference in Aberdeen last week, education secretary Jenny Gilruth had it the other way around.