Category: School Initiatives
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Risk it for a biscuit…
I am now convinced that schools not only have a duty to teach children to manage their own independence but that the best way to do it is to rip up all of the old-skool thinking that causes us to merely pay lip service to it rather than truly deliver it. And this isn’t easy…
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Encouraging innovation…
If there is one thing I have come to realise in headship it is that you can’t do it all by yourself. Surrounding yourself with the very best people is a start – but getting the very best from the very best requires an atmosphere and culture of trust to develop.
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Our house, is a very, very, very fine house…
Having been fortunate enough to spend a career working across a rich variety of settings, centres and schools – both private and state led – I have seen many examples of the house system; and many examples of both the best – and the most pointless – systems and what they do or don’t achieve.
MANX MAX 