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`The book has a wide appeal to existing heads, aspiring heads, lecturers and writers about headship. The contributors to this book have lifted the curtain on the realities of headships and, in the process, have added to our understanding of what school leadership is all about these days' - Managing Schools Today Practitioners and trainers understand how vitally important school leadership is to the practice of headship. Living Headship presents the experiences of successful heads working in primary and secondary schools. We hear in their accounts the authentic voices of heads determined to ensure that their leadership enhances the performance of their schools. Some have been in post for many years, and
Coming to Grips with the Realities of Marketing
Coming to Grips with the Realities of Marketing
The Reason for My Project
In September 1992 I was appointed headteacher of a first school built in 1973 for children aged 3–8 years in an outer London borough. In 1993, under my borough's reorganisation plans, my school gained primary school status. This meant that my school would now have to cater for the needs of children aged 3–11 years. This meant a massive change of character for my school in the following areas: a whole new key stage National Curriculum requirement, two sets of SATS instead of one, increased resourcing to support the above, to name but a few.
Schools in the Market-Place
This, however, was not the only challenge ...
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