Introducing a new member of the Parent Institute leadership team - Becky Shu
Becky Shu - teacher, chaplain and Barker parent - joins the Parent Institute leadership team
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 06 May 2025
Event: Year 7 Study Habits 2025
Notes from an interactive workshop to help Year 7 students and their parents develop good study habits
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 29 April 2025
On “In-Between” Conversations
After three weeks abroad—attending and presenting at the ECIS Leadership Conference in Stuttgart, visiting a German international school, and spending time as a Visiting Scholar at Leysin American School in Switzerland—I find myself reflecting not just on the scheduled events that constituted this busy itinerary but on the spaces between them. What stood out most were not only the keynotes or the formal school visits—although these were rich and rewarding—but the unplanned, spontaneous moments: the “in-between” conversations.
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 28 April 2025
The Transformative Power of Teacher-Researchers in Education
My colleague and I are currently preparing to head overseas for several weeks to present at a conference, visit schools, and continue our work in school-based educational research. As a result, I’m finding myself contemplating how, in an increasingly interconnected world, education must navigate complexity, addressing challenges that extend beyond classrooms and national borders.
- 20 March 2025
Reflections on Pop-In Week – a Participant’s Perspective
If at 9am on any given day you took the roofs off all buildings at Barker and peered in, you would bear witness to a veritable hive of activity. Perhaps you would see students scribbling away in silence, or maybe they would be in group discussion. Perhaps you would see them solving algebraic equations, or maybe they would be lighting up a Bunsen burner.
- Mark Lovell
- 17 March 2025
Research Agenda 2024-2025
Our annually published document identifies high-level priority domains bringing together our rich intellectual resources to facilitate learning and growth throughout the school, and the local and global community.