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Rachel Macfarlane

Rachel Macfarlane is Lead Adviser for Underserved Learners at HFL Education. She was Director of Education Services at HFL from 2018-23 and prior to this, Headteacher of three contrasting schools for over 16 years. In 2011, Rachel set up an all-through 4-18 academy in Ilford. This was judged to be outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in 2014 and 2018.


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When You’ve Passed Through All the Lies

March 10 2021

  If you’re lucky enough to live long enough, you get to an age when you realise you are going to die. When you’re younger, you think you know that, of course you do, but you don’t, not really. With this realisation, living long enough, you get to understand that the great prize is being […]

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Another not-going-anywhere day …

February 07 2021

  Another chill, dull, not-going-anywhere Sunday. Stuck and boring, nothing being achieved, nothing worth achieving. And then, by mid-afternoon, snow. Silent, drifting, changing the landscape utterly, its brightness lifting the spirits. A miracle of snow.  I didn’t make it come. It just came. I  watched it though, and it made me smile. Sometimes, the present […]

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