In the latest episode of Heads & Tales, Henry Faber sits down with James Priory, Headmaster of Tonbridge School, for an in-depth conversation about the school and his career.  

Each of these schools is helping to create an environment where young people feel seen, heard, and supported — and we are proud to recognise their progress on the journey towards sustainable, impactful mentoring.

The School Run is a 200-mile charity run from Devon to London, raising £50,000 each for Magic Breakfast and the Oppidan Foundation. Organised and run by the Oppidan Education team, the route starts from our furthest partner school in Devon and ends three days later at Oppidan HQ in Hammersmith, West London.

We are proud to announce a new partnership with Shrewsbury International School delivering mentorship programmes for Year 9 and Year 12 students. 

We have developed a new partnership with Rugby School Thailand delivering mentorship programmes for Year 10 and Year 12 students. 

Internationally recognised and consistently topping national league tables, St. Paul’s Girls’ School (SPGS) is one of the UK’s leading independent schools.

Exploring summer schools and camps in the UK offers international parents, particularly those from Thailand, South Korea, the UAE, and other countries, a unique opportunity to immerse their children aged 7-16 in British culture and education.

Thoughts from a legal & educational perspective for families making the move to the U.K.

What proportion of VAT are schools passing on to parents? This article does not set out to argue in favour or against the introduction of VAT on private school fees.

We’ve designed a new programme: the Skills Journey. But why? 

We asked our top Oxbridge-education mentors the hardest question they were asked in their interviews:

It has been heartening to see oracy education finally take up more space in the national discourse. Charlotte Harmer, Head of Education here at Oppidan, takes a further look.

After a brilliant launch with one of the Affinitas schools, Xabia International College, in 2024 we expanded our partnership to four schools within the group in Spain.  

Oppidan are delighted to have launched in Thailand, starting two groundbreaking programmes with Rugby School, Thailand near Pattaya and Wellington College, Bangkok.  

This Impact Report evidences a successful year of delivery from the team, standing as legacy to hard-fought progress, innovation and results for Oppidan’s work in schools. I wanted to share my personal takeaways from a happy year in schools.

We surveyed 330 new families that work with us, asking them about their experience with Oppidan and how effective mentoring has been for their children.

On a recent 1:1 mentoring day at a sixth form college in London, everyone got a bit confused.   

We recently onboarded our Spring 2024 cohort of mentees and spent some time sharing the ingredients of mentoring with them.  

Schools and parents always ask us: how do we actually create our mentoring content? 

In January 2024, a cross-party education select committee report called for an end to the single-word judgments used to rate schools in England. These judgments, which are either one or two words, have long been a point of contention. The committee emphasised that schools should not be automatically graded as “inadequate” for minor safeguarding concerns. However, it also recognised the importance of maintaining strong accountability in schools12.