Leadership

Exclusive: My Debt to Comprehensive Schools

With thanks to the Daily Mail for featuring my exclusive story, I would like to explain why, having gone to a comprehensive school, all schools must now become “bog standard”.  The whole thrust of national educational policy now seems to be predicated on personal preferences and singular experiences.  It leaves many people in despair.

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Letter To All Teachers, New and Old

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 →

Don’t Rush to Calculate Progress 8 and Other Results Day Bits

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 →