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Leaders
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The Leadership Nobody Looks At
Twenty or thirty people are leading something in your school today. Subject leaders, the office, site managers, the SENCo. Inspection judges the head and the senior…
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Education: Extinct. The Nature Table
Conkers, frogspawn, a wasps’ nest somebody’s dad found in a shed. Every classroom had a nature table once, and then quietly none of them did. This…
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The Assembly at Laxey
The final episode of Whichever Way You Throw Me, a week of stories from my own career and what each one taught me about leadership. The…
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There Was No Blueprint
Episode four of Whichever Way You Throw Me, a week of stories from my own career and what each one taught me about leadership. The series…
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The Field at Onchan
I have lived in Onchan all my life. I went to school there as a boy. I live there now, a few minutes from where I…
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The School I Helped Build, Twice
In 2011 I was appointed deputy headteacher of Murrays Road School in Douglas. A junior school, Years 3 to 6, single site, with a separate infant…