Conference Programme | HMC Autumn Conference 2024

Pre-booking required

Dinner for delegates arriving on Sunday. Pre-booking required.

If you would like to attend and have not yet booked, please contact [email protected]

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

Speaker: Simon Hyde, General Secretary, HMC

Speaker: Jaideep Barot, HMC Chair 2024-25 and Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School

Speaker: Shivvy Jervis, Futurist

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

The Very Rev Stephen Forde, The Dean of Belfast

A hot buffet supper will be provided at the Europa Hotel; this will be available from 18.30 and will run throughout the evening until 20.30.

Pre-booking required

Fr Gerry Clarke SJ, Belfast Jesuit Centre

Reverend Anthony Bewes

Speaker: Jaideep Barot, HMC Chair 2024-25 and Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School

Speakers:

• Richard Harman, CEO, AGBIS
• Simon Hyde, General Secretary, HMC
• Jonathan Simons, Partner and Head of the Education Practice, Public First
• David Woodgate, Chief Executive, ISBA

Chair: Leon Spence, Public Affairs Officer, HMC

Speakers: Dr Christina Hinton, Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University and Founder and CEO of Research Schools International

Jim Heal,  Director of Practice, Research Schools International

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

• 1A: Creating Research-Informed Interventions to Promote Flourishing at Your School, Christina Hinton, Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program and Founder and CEO of Research Schools International and Jim Heal, Director of Practice, Research Schools International Helsinki Room
• 1B: Relationship building in your community, Lisa Kerr, Principal, George Watson’s College; Huw Williams, Headmaster, Yarm School and Leon Spence, Public Affairs Officer, HMC Paris Room
• 1C: Education Law update (with special focus on neurodiversity), Adam McRae-Taylor, Legal Director and Ben Collingwood, Partner, Moore Barlow Dublin Suite
• 1D: Igniting the Home-School Partnership: Optimal Approaches To Support Pupils’ Mental Health, Resilience and Ability to Thrive, Kathy Weston, Tooled Up Education Copenhagen Room
• 1F: Neuroscience, norms and outcomes: understanding the experiences of students of Black and South Asian heritage, Yasmina Kone, Deputy Lead of Hemisphere Education Amsterdam Room
• 1G: What can be learnt from schools around the world, Antony Clark, Rector, Michaelhouse, South Africa; Ann Haydon, Head, Harrow International School Hong Kong; Michael Lambert, Headmaster, Dubai College and Vanita Uppal, Director, The British School New Delhi Penthouse Suite
• 1H: RileyBot: How AI in the hands of pupils improves their performance, Adam Webster, Deputy Head (Innovation), Caterham School and CEO, Sphinx AI Conference Centre
• 1I: Partnerships for Stronger Schools and Stronger Communities, Oliver Blond, Chief Executive, School Partnerships Alliance Berlin Room

• East – Piano Restaurant
• Irish – Amsterdam Room
• London – Conference Centre
• North East – Helsinki Room
• North West – Berlin Room
• Scottish – Library Bar
• South Central – Dublin Suite
• South East – Copenhagen Room
• South West – Penthouse Suite
• West – Paris Room

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

• 2A: Creating Research-Informed Interventions to Promote Flourishing at Your School, Christina Hinton, Research Associate at the Human Flourishing Program and Founder and CEO of Research Schools International and Jim Heal, Director of Practice, Research Schools International Helsinki Room
• 2B: Educational Reform – where next for HMC?, Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress, St Paul’s Girls’ School Paris Room
• 2C: Education Law update (with special focus on neurodiversity), Adam McRae-Taylor, Legal Director and Ben Collingwood, Partner, Moore Barlow Dublin Suite
• 2D: Generative AI, reading, writing and assessments, Sofia Fenichell, Study Hall Copenhagen Room
• 2E: Harnessing independent school opportunities to improve outcomes for children in care: the DfE’s Broadening Educational Pathways scheme, Ali Henderson, CEO, Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation (RNCSF) Berlin Room
• 2F: Developing pupils’ resilience, Alicia Drummond, Founder, The Wellbeing Hub Amsterdam Room
• 2G: To recognise unions or not, that is the question…?, Sue Woodroofe, Principal, The Grammar School at Leeds and Richard Jones, Head, Bryanston Penthouse Suite
• 2H: What next? – Life after Headship, Emma Hattersley, Consultant and Head of the Schools’ Practice, Saxton Bampfylde; Jo Ogilvy, Partner, Consultant, Saxton Bampfylde; Heather Styche-Patel, CEO, RSAcademics and Claire Oulton, Head of Leadership Appointments, UK, RSAcademics Conference Centre

Speaker: Daisy Christodoulou, Director of Education, No More Marking

Daisy will explore some of the different justifications for independent education and look at the ways independent schools can provide leadership and innovation at a system level, particularly in the context of emerging technologies like AI.

Day two concluding remarks and introduction to HMC Autumn Conference dinner sponsor HP.

Speaker: Jaideep Barot, HMC Chair 2024-25 and Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

Speaker: Geoff Thompson MBE, HMC Board Member and Founder and Chair of the Youth Charter

Following the sporting success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, this session will present the Youth Charter’s Community Campus as a ‘Legacy Opportunity 4 All’ and how it can map, track, measure and promote the mental, physical and emotional health and wellbeing benefits to the underserved disadvantaged and disaffected.

The independent sector is in the spotlight with the emphasis on the few at the expense of the many.  The Collaboration Partnerships provide an extraordinary contribution of independent/state school public benefit that goes unnoticed to society at large. This session will present the art of the possible and the social, cultural and economic impact of this approach not just for the 7%, but for all.

Pre-booking required

After Dinner Entertainment from Hal Cruttenden, stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, and writer.

Fr Gerry Clarke SJ, Belfast Jesuit Centre

Reverend Anthony Bewes

All members must register upon entry to the Conference Centre

Speakers: Sarah Fletcher, High Mistress, St Paul’s Girls’ School

Alistair McConville, Deputy Head, King Alfred School

Philip Seal – Deputy Head (Academic), King’s High School, Warwick

John Taylor, Director of Learning, Teaching and Innovation, Cranleigh School

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.

Speaker: Clive Woodward

Speaker: Jaideep Barot, HMC Chair 2024-25 and Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School

Served among the exhibitors

The Library Bar and Rotunda is available for members who wish to have a quiet meeting space for informal networking and discussions.