Writing
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Everything published since 2018, by strand, series and year.
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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…
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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…
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Manage your Emails to Cut Down your Workload
Maxim Kelly offers some practical tips for school leaders faced with email inboxes that threaten to consume their working hours…
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Is Your School’s Monitoring and Assessment Data Actually Useful?
Schools are now awash with monitoring, testing and performance data – but are your staff able to access the details they need to see in a…
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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…
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Building character: why we do what we do.
The belief in my school centres around developing learning habits. We’ve implemented a strand in our curriculum designed to instil in our pupils a growth mindset…