When speaking at the Headteachers’ Roundtable Summit last week, I twice made the statement that, “Opting to lead a challenging school is like playing Russian roulette with your career”. It was tweeted, retweeted and liked. Continue reading
The first Blackpool Challenge Meeting of the year has come and gone and it felt a little bit sombre. Things didn’t go that well, at a secondary level, last year and this year was a little bit worse. Hit by turbulence in iGCSE English and the change in the higher tier Edexcel GCSE Maths paper some schools, like others up and down the country, have suffered. The pressure increases. Continue reading