‘Britain’s strictest head’ hails prayer ban ruling as ‘a victory for all colleges’

Responding to the ruling, Ms Birbalsingh stated: “At Michaela we positively embrace small c conservative values which millions of people including so many of our families and pupils also value. Those values enable extraordinary academic progress. But they also promote a way of living, where gratitude, agency and personal responsibility, refusal of identity-politics victimhood, love of country, hard work, kindness, a duty towards others, self sacrifice for the betterment of the whole, are fundamental to who we are.”