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Assessing Leadership In School

Your Leadership Purpose – How would you describe the foundational purpose of your leadership role? Your Assessment – How would you assess your present school environment? Creativity: Tapping into one’s imagination, resourcefulness, ingenuity, inventiveness,...

The Extra Mile: How Schools Succeed

What good schools do: They have dynamic leaders, who lead from the front, set the tone and establish a ‘can do’ culture They shape the curriculum – to serve the needs of their intake...

Unfair Fight for Oxbridge

Sutton report research again shows the disadvantage that state schools children have compared to their public school educated peers. I do not wish to get into a discussion on the justice of this, however,...

Tracking Behaviour

This is a logging form that I used to start to track behaviour issues. It allows easy tracking of what activities were taking place. Also a thinking plan that students if ejected from a...

Literacy: Crib Sheet for Staff

One of the challenges of genuinely embedding literacy across the school is to make it easy. I created this as a basic guide it is based on Ofsted guidance. It was produced on A5...

Departmental Literacy Evaluation

A quick evaluation for departments takes about 5 minutes and includes section for teachers to make improvements. (This is based on an original that I can’t source)

Literacy Plan

Despite extensive googling I did not find a policy that I liked. I produced this for my current school. It is in two halves: Interventions for children with significant literacy issues Classroom practices to...

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First 90 days – key ideas

Introduction The key idea of this book is that the actions you take during your first three months in a  will determine whether you succeed or fail. If you fail to build momentum during...

Safe To Learn

Bullying is an issue in many schools. Certainly the school I had been involved with had a significant issue with the majority of students dissatisfied with the level of bullying and the way that...