Issue 2 - Primary Leadership Today

Dear Anna

Sometimes there are questions that you don’t want to ask your LEA inspector or another colleague. We’d like you to ask us. Anna Metcalfe is a former primary headteacher, Ofsted registered inspector and local authority adviser. She welcomes questions from colleagues at all levels of management.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Time To Chat

Chat rooms have had some bad press. However, Martin Tibbetts, headteacher at Cheslyn Hay Primary School, gives an account of why he wanted to set up a school interactive website in his current school and the benefits it has subsequently brought to his pupils.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Moving On Up

It’s got to that time of year again. The girls in Year 6 are getting fractious, the boys are beginning to notice that the girls are bigger than they are and SATs stands in the way of now and the summer holiday. By now, nearly all pupils have their secondary school allotted to them. Some parents will be satisfied – even overjoyed – and others disappointed that parental choice is just a mirage in our neck of the woods. So how can we prepare our aspirant Year 7s for making that big move

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

More change. What’s new

After a long DAY AT school, meetings WITH my ‘change management team’, consultation WITH parents AND WORK ON the school improvement plan I discover an email IN the IN–tray announcing a new white paper. Yippee, what can I look forward TO this TIME

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

The Primary Link Teacher

PLT doesn’t just stand for Primary Leadership Today. It’s also the acronym for for a Primary Link Teacher. Crispin Andrews explains how the PLT will act as a link between schools’ sports development and the local community.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

50 Books a Year!

A recent article in the TES entreated us to encourage children to read 50 books a year. Well said, indeed, but how do you do it? Anne Fine, celebrated (but not celebrity) children’s author, provides some ideas and expresses her views.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Constructing head teachers

Most of us in the teaching profession are at least vaguely aware of the impending shortage of headteachers. Tony Hayes provides some insight into the reasons why deputies may choose or choose not to move on. Two case studies from his own school illustrate the differences between the career deputy and the ‘rising star’.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Every Child Matters…What you need to know

Every Child Matters, the Government’s vision for children’s services was first published in September 2003. It proposed reshaping children’s services according to the five outcomes below.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Key Stage Wars

The challenge to secondary schools continues. In this issue Sue Potts is once more in the hot seat as she answers the burning question: Should primary teachers be jealous of the amount of time secondary colleagues get to train out of classrooms

1 Jan 2005
24mins

Leadership

Newtown’s Quiet Place

What can we offer children WHEN nothing seems TO WORK Most schools have reached this point WITH AT least one individual AND felt a sense OF frustration AT NOT knowing WHERE TO turn. Jane Blacklock, headteacher AT Newtown PRIMARY School, has FOUND one alternative AND NOT just OF benefit TO children.

1 Jan 2005
24mins

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Issue 2 - Primary Leadership Today

Dear Anna

Time To Chat

Moving On Up

More change. What’s new

The Primary Link Teacher

50 Books a Year!

Constructing head teachers

Every Child Matters…What you need to know

Key Stage Wars

Newtown’s Quiet Place

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