Over the past few weeks I’ve read many different blog posts on the topic of marking and its monitoring; there have been some really great posts in the blogosphere. This is a very live issue for us. The posts seem to be following a similar trend to the frenzy that led to Ofsted stating that they would no longer grade lessons which many schools duly followed. Continue reading
The well-being of staff must be an area of concern for school leaders; however, there will inevitably be some aspects of well-being that are outside of your control. It often felt that most of the private confidential work I did as a head teacher was dealing with personal rather than personnel issues. Continue reading
The current fecundity of working groups and their ability to reproduce is showing no signs of slowing down. The answer to most problems in education these days seems to be: have a consultation, set up a working or review group and then depending on whether you like what it writes publish the report or bury it. Continue reading