Magazine/Newspaper Articles
Bernard Trafford’s magazine/newspaper articles
For Headlines (The Journal of the Secondary Heads Association)
Never glad, confident morning again, October 1999
What did you do at half-term? March 2000
Much more than soggy chips November 2000
In a glass darkly July 2001
What price integrity? March 2002
Too important not to November 2002
Those top-up fees March 2003
Don't let this one get away November 2003
Voices March 2004
Stating the Blairingly obvious July 2004
For The Leader (The Journal of the Association of School and College Leaders)
The last word, September 2005, June 2006, May 2007
Ruling Classes, February 2008
For SecEd, the weekly journal for secondary education
Crisis? What crisis? (March 2007)
Been there, got the T shirt (May 2007)
The beginning of the end for childhood? (Guest editorial, May 2007)
Testing times (July 2007)
It’s the money, stupid (September 2007)
Culture shock (May 2008)
Dismiss this weasel view of education (Guest editorial, May 2008)
Balls’ address was smoke and mirrors (Guest editorial, June 2008)
Time to consider (December 2008)
Politicians fiddle, teachers fight fire (Guest editorial, June 2009)
Stop the food police! (Guest editorial, September 2009)
For Conference and Common Room (the journal of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, HMC):
Independent and Innovative (October 2006)
Punching above our weight (October 2007)
Inside the Looking-Glass House (May 2008)
Hot under the collar (May 2009)
No sound of the S-word (October 2009)
For The Schools’ Advertiser:
Choosing your independent school (Autumn 2007)
Discipline: a headmaster’s view (Spring 2008)
Tips for entrance exams and interviews (Summer 2008)
Challenging Times (Spring 2009)
For CRONER-i Independent Education e-Newsletter:
Articles on:
Attracting and retaining pupils
Marketing your school
Working with the Bursar
Making the most of heads of department
Inspection
School fees; setting and collection
Bullying
Safeguarding children
The spiritual and moral dimension
Conflict resolution and counseling
Closing a school in a health emergency
Working with governors
Challenges for the sector
Handling drug and alcohol incidents
Health and safety: dispelling some of the myths
Media relations
Involving parents
Q&As on:
Spending the school fees
Fundraising
Safeguarding of children
Parent contracts
Sponsorship
Complaints
School trips
Curriculum issues (1-4)
Stress
Performance management
Parents’ associations
Truancy
Trouble with governors
Inducting new staff
For
The Journal:
Teachers celebrate the demise of SATs (May 2009)
More chances to grind joy out (June 2009)
Will we learn from Harry Patch? (August 2009)
Other
articles:
Independence and partnership, Education Journal, June 1999
Girl power is working – but there’s no need to panic, The Daily
Telegraph, 27 September 2000
School councils and citizenship,
PSHE and Citizenship Update, May 2001
Oxbridge Entrance/case study: independent school head, Times Educational
Supplement, Friday Magazine 20th September 2002
(with
Ian Tyler) How we have risen to the challenge: bright dyslexic children can
study on equal terms when they have the right support, Daily Telegraph
Independent Schools Supplement, 13 March 2004
Creativity or survival: can heads be creative under pressure?
Journal of the Heads Association of Scotland (HAS), May 2008
We’re not all toffs, The Guardian, 19 June 2008
Diplomas
threaten our independence,
Times Educational Supplement, 28
November 2008
Why point
the finger at home-educators? The Guardian, 31
March 2009