In <i>A School Built on Ethos: Ideas, assemblies and hard-won wisdom</i>, James Handscombe explores how schooling is more than gaining qualifications, how learning is more than exams, and how academic success comes more readily to those who have grasped this idea.</p>Harris Westminster Sixth Form has had enormous success in providing an academic education for students of all socio-economic backgrounds. This success is grounded in the development of a scholarly ethos that guides students and staff into successful habits - driven by a clear vision for the community and communicated through everything that the school says and does.</p>In this book, founding principal James Handscombe takes readers through the school''s development and illustrates its journey by sharing a selection of the assemblies that have underpinned and elucidated its ethos.</p>In doing so he offers guidance on how such a staple of school life can be used to shape a community, and shares transferable lessons on how as