Skip to content
  • Editorial
  • Featured Articles​
  • Advertising
    • Printed Advertising
    • Digital Advertising
  • About Us
    • ISM
    • Distribution
  • Contact Us
  • View Issues
    • Latest Issue
    • Past Issues
  • Editorial
  • Featured Articles​
  • Advertising
    • Printed Advertising
    • Digital Advertising
  • About Us
    • ISM
    • Distribution
  • Contact Us
  • View Issues
    • Latest Issue
    • Past Issues

Current Issue

The professional journal for management and staff…

April 2026

The e-magazine kindly sponsored this month by:
April 2026
View Magazine

In this issue

Sometimes the most powerful way forward is knowing when to unplug.
Classroom tech under review – page 7

04 Preparing pupils for the future
Is it time the current education system is re-imagined?

08 Commercial partnerships: the essentials
A look at next steps

10 “Chippy Chats” 
Promoting pupil voice, wellbeing, and life skills over fish and chips

12 From ancient worlds to modern skills
Why Classics has never been more relevant

13 Rethinking a school’s reporting system
The positive outcomes that can be achieved from a review

14 Stronger together?
Thhoughts on how to approach joining a school group

22 Improving the transition to Senior School
How a new integration programme is supporting pupils

24 Profile
In conversation with Pippa Adams

36 Rethinking the start of GCSEs
Should Year 9 be the start of GCSEs or a culmination of KS3?

Is Your School Mentioned?

About ISM

The professional journal for management and staff. Printed and online, read by decision-makers, Governors, Heads, Bursars and Departmental Managers throughout the fee-paying independent education sector in England, Scotland & Wales; and by other opinion formers and influencers in Government, think-tanks, associations, advisory bodies etc.

The Independent Schools Magazine. ISM Publishing Ltd. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Notice Designed by Andrew Wicks Creative