Sentences with phrase «headteachers more»

Through a combination of word - of - mouth and contact with local Headteachers more schools joined the Partnership and the variety of classes on offer has gradually been extended.

An academy trust in Warwickshire is reviewing its pay policies after it emerged it paid one headteacher more than # 270,000 a year, despite having only two schools.

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She said more than 40 applications were received from York and the wider region and the new band will be led by headteacher Angela Mitchell.

Rather it frees governors and headteachers to focus more on deciding what type of sex education parents want their children to experience in school and, in the case of primary schools, whether there should be any formal sex education at all.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

However, Young has nothing special to add here: there are many headteachers and administrators up and down the country with vastly more experience of secondary education governance than he has.

«Parents oppose giving more freedoms to individual headteachers and governing bodies» says the NASUWT

As a result, nearly a third (32 %) of headteachers said support for these students has become more difficult to access over the last year.

It also featured promises of more education reforms, with the «best headteachers» working in more than one school as trusts, academies and federations are expanded.

There are more than 120 headteachers working under the national leaders in education programme, which already seeks to provide «additional leadership to schools in difficulty».

«The pay of so called executive headteachers who «run» more than one school, despite the fact that in most instances these schools already have headteachers, and the pay and rewards of academy principals are unacceptable secret gardens in the education system.

What parents want is greater transparency in how schools are run, not more powers for headteachers.»

What's more, the headteacher has spoken at a number of high profile events to share her knowledge and understanding of safety related issues, including a high profile event at the European Commission.

«This equates to more than one million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than when we began our reforms in 2010, a testament to the hard work of teachers, headteachers and governors across the country.

So we will make it a priority to recruit more academy sponsors and support more great headteachers in coming together in academy chains.

John Tomsett, Headteacher of Huntington School in York, commented on the need for more flexibility: «A third of our 100 + teachers are part - timers.

The essay will be launched today [16 November] in central London, with speakers including: David Laws, former schools minister, now executive chairman, Education Policy Institute; Daisy Christodoulou, director of education, No More Marking; Peter Hyman, co-founder and executive headteacher, School 21; Julian Astle, director of creative learning and development, RSA.

The SNP manifesto, published last month, called into question the future role of councils in the delivery of education: it vowed to «extend to individual schools responsibilities that currently sit solely with local authorities» and «allocate more resources directly to headteachers».

The plan also included introducing free school meals for all infants (more detail below), training headteachers in food and nutrition, and Ofsted inspectors are to consider behaviour and culture in the dining hall, and the way a school promotes healthy lifestyles.

Headteachers will be seriously looking at what is good value for money and worth having in schools, with effective schemes of work and the use of technology being ever - more important as schools also need to balance reduction with staying relevant to today's society.»

She said: «I am also concerned that headteachers in Dundee may end up having responsibility for more than one school.»

In particular, governing boards need to be made more fully aware of the standards, especially for recruitment and performance management, and those headteachers who are anxious about what the aspirational character of the standards will mean need to be reassured and helped to understand the purpose and context.

Its pledge for the recent election promises to «extend to individual schools responsibilities that currently sit solely with local authorities, allocate more resources directly to headteachers and enable them to take decisions based on local circumstances».

Where teachers and headteachers have a different vision — including more music, more outdoor activity, bilingual lessons, a longer school day, all - through education or using different models of teaching — the policy allows them to realise their ambitions and change children's lives for the better.

Christine has a wealth of experience having previously served as a headteacher and more recently in her capacity as both Executive Principal and CEO of Ninestiles Academy trust.

1) Hand over responsibility — The Huffington Post recently ran a story about a secondary school in Colchester, where the headteacher decided to ditch traditional homework in favor of a more relaxed approach.

As the government looks to headteachers and parents to run services, local communities are being given more control over schools.

It also includes a set of self - assessment questions to help headteachers and governing boards to gauge where they are doing well and which areas require more attention.

In each case the Headteacher Sally Lanni was able to log on to the same canvas and watch work across her whole school being created live in front of her very eyes — and what is more — she was able to interact with the process too.

The academy chain - wide restructures also question ministers» claims that headteachers in academies have more autonomy.

More headteachers are opting to arm school crossing patrol officers with body cameras to clamp down on dangerous driving during the school run.

However, schools with more mixed intakes will see results suffer, risking an academy order, the removal of governors or even the headteacher losing their job.

«Indeed, as today's report makes clear, headteachers who are new to the post in an inadequate school have much higher retention rates than those who have been in post for two or more years.»

Steve is a highly skilled leader with nearly 40 years of experience within education, more than 20 of them as a primary headteacher.

I was delivering a leadership course to headteachers in Leeds this week and one of the headteachers said, the time that children are most independent in UK schools is in reception (Year R) and then we gradually make them more dependent each year.

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Key finding 2: Most headteachers appear to have taken a cautious approach to the reforms, choosing to implement only the statutory changes rather than to make more far - reaching revisions.

No more than one headteacher or school leader per multi-academy trust can be elected onto any one headteacher board, the website states.

However heads from the same trust can be elected on to different headteacher boards, only if the trust operates across more than one region.

7 March The apparent existence of a plot to impose a more hardline Muslim ethos on Birmingham schools emerges in an undated, unsigned letter which claims responsibility for ousting four headteachers.

The recommendations are an initial part of the Rochford Review, led by headteacher Diane Rochford, and created to focus on statutory assessment of the more than 50,000 pupils whose ability falls below the national curriculum standards at key stage 1 and 2.

Under election rules, published on the new website today, a candidate can stand in more than one headteacher board election, but can only win membership onto one board.

More than 90 per cent of headteachers expect their schools to rack up an unmanageable budget deficit in the near future, a poll has revealed.

This equates to more than 1 million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than when we began our reforms in 2010, a testament to the hard work of teachers, headteachers and governors across the country.

Correction: This story was amended on July 10th to make clear that no more than one headteacher or school leader per multi-academy trust can be elected onto any one headteacher board.

We need to find more than 2,000 new headteachers every year just to stand still.

These proposals will not only see more than half of England's schools receive a cash boost in 2018 - 19 but will also give headteachers certainty over their future budgets, helping them make long term plans and secure further efficiencies.

He is understood to be considering the creation of specialist improvement teams, with powers to order schools to collaborate more and even to sack failing headteachers.

Toby Young appointed himself to the paid position of CEO of his own MAT, and has got through more Headteachers in 3 years than teachers get through board markers.