Dr Trevor Richards

Head, All Hallows Prep

Mental Health Awareness Week (Beginning 13th May)

May 7, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

They have never had it so good! Sitting with a prospective parent recently, they were bemoaning that schools appeared to be increasingly diverting their attention from teaching maths, physics and reading to also attend to young people’s mental health. “Even the Royal Family are at it!”, they exclaimed with much eye rolling. “We all seem to be obsessed with mental health, when […]

An introduction…

February 1, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

I have been wanting to find the time to blog since I began my doctoral training to become an Educational Psychologist some 9 years or so ago. Partly, my thinking behind blogging was a somewhat selfish reflective process, but I also wanted to think-out-loud about the findings of contemporary research, to ‘trouble’, question and contemplate some […]