Of late, Miss Farr has been sharing her intelligent thoughts with us all. She has written to newspapers to give her pensées on the character-building importance of extra curricular challenges. She has made headlines with the revelation that she was staging parenting classes at her school, which counts Rachel Weisz, the actress; Alexandra Shulman, the editor-in-chief of Vogue; Jennifer Saunders, the comedian; Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics editor and Carol Thatcher, the journalist, among its alumnae – the Old Paulinas.