This week, I was lucky enough to be invited back to the school I attended from the ages of 10 to 17, to work with senior students across a number of partner schools on a day of public speaking and debating. Back in the dark ages, when I was there,
In the summer of 1998, at around this time, my Dad and I drove to my school with our brand new puppy (who promptly tried chewing the deputy head when she tried to pet him) to collect my GCSE results. I was completely high on adrenalin by the time we
In the autumn of 1993, short, rather socially-awkward little me arrived at secondary school. It was an all-girls’ boarding school hidden in the Wiltshire countryside, small and supportive and gently eccentric, and it was to be my home-from-home for the next seven years. Of that time in my life, I
