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Send us Fan Mail Ambition, Dreams and Getting Back Up: Neil Taylor on What It Really Takes Every parent knows that moment. Your child comes home with a dream that feels enormous, and part of you wants to cheer while another part quietly worries about how much it might hurt if it doesn’t work out. In this episode of Let Them Fly , Heather sits down with former professional footballer Neil Taylor to...

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Send us Fan Mail Every parent in the Gulf knows the name Dubai College. Most of us have wondered what really goes on behind those gates, and whether a school that academic could ever be the right place for our child. In this episode of Let Them Fly , Heather sits down with Tomas Duckling, Headmaster of Dubai College, for a warm and candid conversation about what it takes to raise confident, kind a...

Send us Fan Mail Every parent in the Gulf knows the feeling. We've crossed oceans for our families, we've chosen schools with enormous care, and still, late at night, we wonder whether we're giving our children what they'll truly need. This week on Let Them Fly, I'm joined by Russell Cailey, one of the early leaders of the worldschooling movement. Long before it had a name...

Send us Fan Mail Let Them Fly with Jenna Sheehan, Enhance Training Institute How often do we see a child who seems switched off at school light up the moment they're doing something they actually love? In this episode I sit down with Jenna Sheehan, Programme Manager at Enhance Training Institute, for a conversation that gently challenges where we think real learning happens. Jenna has spent t...

Send us Fan Mail We have all had a version of that evening. The homework is spread across the kitchen table, the tutor is booked, the revision timetable is colour coded and stuck to the fridge, and still something is not quite working. The child in front of us is tired, flat, a little switched off. Amr Fahmi thinks we may be looking in the wrong place. Amr is the founder of The Educated Coach, and...

Send us Fan Mail Every parent knows the feeling. It is 3am, you are sitting on the edge of a small bed, and you are already doing the maths on how you will get through the school run, the meetings and the whole of tomorrow. In this episode of Let Them Fly, Heather Harries is joined by Anna Baker, founder of SleepBaker Consultancy and a baby and child sleep consultant with more than a decade of exp...

Send us Fan Mail Starting Again: Mark Colbourne MBE on Resilience, Discipline and the Long Road Most of us tell our children that hard work pays off. Mark Colbourne MBE is proof of what that actually looks like, and how long it can take. Mark represented Wales at volleyball in his twenties. Then, in 2009, a paragliding accident left him with a broken back and a future he had not planned for. He wa...

Send us Fan Mail Every mother I speak to in this region carries the same quiet question. Not "will my child pass?" but "will my child be alright?" We move countries for our children. We leave grandparents, and cousins, and the streets we grew up on, and we do it because we believe that somewhere out here is a school that will see our child properly. And then we arrive, and we a...

Send us Fan Mail There's a moment most mums here know well. You're standing at the gate at 6:50am, your child is climbing into a car, and a small voice at the back of your mind asks the question nobody wants to say out loud: do I actually know who is driving my child today? In this episode I sit down with Lauren Hamilton, founder of Ride Skipper UAE — and a mum who asked that exact quest...

Send us Fan Mail Let Them Fly with Harry Allen, Minerva Virtual Academy What if school could fit around your child, instead of your child having to fit around school? In this episode I sit down with Harry Allen, Vice Principal for the Middle East at Minerva Virtual Academy, for a warm and honest conversation about online education and what it can offer families here in the Gulf. For so many of us...

Send us Fan Mail Let Them Fly — with Jan Horn, SAE University College Dubai Somewhere in your home there is a child who draws instead of revising. Who edits videos at midnight. Who builds worlds in a game and knows every sound in a film. And somewhere in you, quietly, sits the question you don't quite say out loud: is that a career, or is it a hobby that will cost my child their future? If yo...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Let Them Fly with Jazz Ferguson, Reps With Jazz Is confidence something you are born with, or something you build? I sat down with Jazz Ferguson, who spent fifteen years as a professional basketball player across Italy, France, Australia and the Middle East, and who now coaches leaders and mentors young athletes right here in Dubai. His answer never changes. Reps remove all dou...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Let Them Fly with Jack Reed and Marcus Hedley, Front Foot Can leadership actually be taught? Or is it something a child either has, or does not? I sat down with Jack Reed and Marcus Hedley, the founders of Front Foot, the UAE leadership and resilience programme that takes teenagers out of the classroom, into the desert, and hands them something real to be responsible for. Their...

Send us Fan Mail Let Them Fly with Leah Nicholls, Impulse Self Defence How do we raise daughters who can look someone in the eye and say no, and truly mean it? In this episode I sit down with Leah Nicholls, founder of Impulse Self Defence, the UAE's only female-led awareness and self-protection club, for a conversation that turned out to be far less about fighting and far more about something...

🎙️ New episode of Let Them Fly , out today. Every parent knows the child who comes alive with a pencil, a sketchbook, a screen full of colour. The one whose school reports are perfectly fine, but whose real spark shows up in what they make, not what they memorise. And most of us have felt the quiet worry that follows. But is that a real career? This week I sit down with Emma Ledger , and her answe...

Join Heather Harries, Founder of the Education Hub, and her guest Siog Moore, founder of Little Land Nursery and one of Dubai's most respected voices in early years education, for a warm and reassuring conversation all about Montessori learning. If you have ever stood at the nursery door with your heart in your throat, or quietly worried that your little one should already be reading and writ...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙 This Week on the Podcast: Ethan Mathews We’re thrilled to welcome Ethan Mathews, international rugby player and all-around sports enthusiast, to the studio. Originally hailing from Wales, Ethan now represents the UAE and proudly captained the Rugby 7s-winning Bali Legends team. In this episode, we dive into Ethan’s journey in rugby, his role in establishing Reset Fitness—a cutti...

Send us Fan Mail This week on our Heather Harries Chats podcast, Heather is joined by the brilliant Toni Lunn – one of our superstar tutors! 🌟 Toni teaches Psychology and English, but that’s not all! She also runs our game-changing Revision Techniques course, helping students turn revision from a daunting task into something they can actually manage (and maybe even enjoy!). 📚🧠 In this lively ep...

Send us Fan Mail ✨🎙 Celebrate the Spirit of the Holidays with the EdHub Team! 🎄❤️ This week on our podcast, we're diving into the magic of family traditions with the EdHub team! 🌟 Despite the long history and universal customs of Christmas, it's the personal, unique routines that truly make the holidays special. From treasured recipes to quirky rituals, these moments bring families cl...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙 Welcome to Let Them Fly! In today’s episode, we’re diving into the fascinating world of psychology—what it is, why it matters, and how the right psychologist can make a world of difference for your child. Joining us is the brilliant Esra, an educational psychologist trained in Scotland and now based in JLT. With her expertise and passion for supporting children in their educatio...

Send us Fan Mail Heather talks about the parenting journey and how important it is to remember being perfect is not important and that many versions of “winning” can be as seemingly insignificant as managing to dry PE kit with the hairdryer to get to school on time. Children do not learn from perfect, they learn from real. Please enjoy my little rambling about parenting. https://www.heatherharries...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Let Them Fly, we're excited to welcome Dr. Louise Head, the Head of the International Foundation Programme (IFP) at Middlesex University Dubai. Join us as we delve into the ins and outs of the IFP, a specially designed course that prepares students for undergraduate study. In this episode, Dr. Head will explain what an International Foundation Programme entails,...

Send us Fan Mail Today we visited Simply Gymnastics and talked to the owner Lise to find out more about the impact of gymnastics on children and to understand why this discipline is so important for them even at a young age” Simply Gymnastics is in Dubai Investment park and Lise is offering any parents a free class if they would like to have go and see if their children would enjoy it. https://www...