This summer was spent writing. Famous last words but I think I’m likely to be a “one book boy”; Liminal Leadership is my attempt to distill thirty years of working in schools into something that is hopefully enjoyable to read and useful to those working in schools. Continue reading
This was one of those six and a half week summers that comes around every now and again; where has it gone? The last academic term ended in an absolute furore over the new Key Stage 2 SATs and dashed hopes that the policy of retesting those pupils who had “failed” the SATs, at the end of primary school, was disappearing into the long grass. Continue reading
There are now three results days in my calendar each year; arguably four but Key Stage 1 drifts in over a number of weeks rather than being a set day. Starting in early July with Key Stage 2 with A-levels in mid-August followed a week later by GCSEs. They have been a mixture of individual pupil and organisational triumphs and disasters, over the year. Continue reading