Sentences with phrase «headteachers did»

In contrast 38 % think parents do not have enough power over schools and 41 % think headteachers do not have enough power.

Ofsted has dropped a commitment to send letters to headteachers doing an «exceptional turnaround job» at other schools after just one year and only five letters sent.

Not exact matches

Headteachers, he rewired 2 houses and did all the plumbing in one and now due to age you can't trust them with the remote control let alone money.

The School Food Plan includes a specially designed checklist for Headteachers, laying out a few of the things they can do to improve the food culture at their school.

«Autonomy doesn't mean that headteachers can run their school free from scrutiny or demanding standards, it means academies can be run without having to second guess advice or interference from local authorities.»

He said that headteachers had been concerned that if inspectors did arrive unannounced then he wouldn't be able to be there.

The NASUWT the largest teachers» union has advised members that they should have nothing to do with alternative arrangements for testing in the light of some headteachers» plans to boycott the Key Stage 2 SATs.

«However, headteachers who decide to take action must do so on the basis that they accept the consequences of the SATs not going ahead.

«As in medicine, a Licence to Practise in teaching should apply to headteachers and not just teachers, as it does to consultants as well as junior doctors.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learningheadteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learningHeadteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

«But because [education secretary] Michael Gove will not give guidance to headteachers on ways to do that, nor monitor how the money is being used, we have no way of knowing what the pupil premium is being spent on.

I tend to wear a variety of different styles to school apparently, at least according to my old Headteacher who told me one day she loved the fact she didn't know what style I'd wear every day and it was exciting to see the difference!x

Those schools that do not yet have academy status attended the session presented by Tom Rees, headteacher and director at Northampton Primary Academy Trust (NPAT).

«At a time when the recruitment of headteachers is exceptionally challenging with many posts attracting at best single figures this kind of sensationalist report does nothing to help us to achieve the ambitious vision headteachers are working so tirelessly to turn into a reality for our education system.»

This is a lesson that I was observed with in 2017 and was graded Outstanding by my SLT and a Headteacher from another school that came to do a due diligence.

It was clear that for some school business managers there is a sense of vulnerability and acknowledgement that they need to increase awareness of what they do beyond the headteacher to the governing body and teaching staff.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «We want all teachers to continuously seek to improve their skills and we trust headteachers to decide what is the best way for them to do that.»

The Standards and Testing Agency has recently reminded headteachers that they have a statutory duty to ensure that all pupils in their school who are eligible and can sit the tests do so.

The «How do I...» sessions provided practical guidance and ideas for the classroom, such as transforming learning with the introduction of a 1:2:1 iPad scheme, detailed by Derek Trimmer, headteacher at Hove Park School.

Those elected to headteacher boards do not have decision - making powers, but provide local expertise to inform the decisions of National and Regional Schools Commissioners and ministers.

The job title signposts that on some occasions, when the Headteacher is out, you have to do all of the things they do.

Maarit Rossi (@pathstomath) recommends the blog of Kirsti Savikko, Headteacher in Kähäri school, Turku, Finland, who writes: «So what do I tell my students to do during the holiday?

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.

Governors do not manage the schools day to day business but oversee its long term future by supporting the teaching staff and championing success, helping to set the schools aims and objectives and monitoring progress, allocating the budget and appointing senior staff like the Headteacher.

Headteachers were today urged by environmental campaigners to «do everything possible» to protect their pupils from toxic air at schools.

But Alan Andrews, a lawyer at ClientEarth, said: «Headteachers worried about legal action should put in place clean air policies that do everything possible to protect their students from air pollution.

A headteacher / principal does have the power to exclude violent or seriously disruptive students, either for a fixed period or permanently (subject to the student's right to appeal).

Jon Chaloner, a trust chief executive and founding member of the Headteachers» Roundtable, told Schools Week: «In terms of equality of access to excellent provision, the growth of such funding is driving greater inequality between those who have the «right» contacts and can raise funds in this way in comparison to those who simply do not.»

Mrs Hims, Headteacher, said: «I am so proud of the children and their parents, who have really taken on what we are trying to do as a school to get the best possible education for the children.

She called on NAHT members to respond to the consultation, and claimed her party would listen to headteachers, something she claimed the current government has failed to do.

«The same staff who campaigned against the school becoming an academy are now saying «hang on a minute, why do we have an executive headteacher and a finance director when you're making people redundant?»

Why do we have an executive headteacher and a finance director when you're making people redundant?

When asked about the leaked papers by Schools Week, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the outgoing Ofsted chief inspector, said: «If somebody had asked me as a headteacher to check on whether somebody was an illegal immigrant, or demand their passports from them, I would have said «I've got better things to do with my time, thank you very much».»

Three - in - ten (30 %) teachers and headteachers say their school expects children aged six to seven (Year 2) to do SATs revision at home, according to a joint survey by the National Education Union (NEU) and TES.

The post of Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher should be advertised as the governors see fit unless it has good reason not to do so.

Indeed, sources told Schools Week the name «headteacher board» might change, which does not seem to have happened.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at Frank Wise School in Banbury, Oxfordshire, said the recommendations so far do not «appear to fully consider those pupils with the most complex needs.

The data experts also found that difference by pay according to headteacher type did not match up to the Centre for High Performance's findings.

She then looked at the annual change in GCSE results for every senior leader or headteacher from 2010 until when they left the school, or until 2015 if they did not leave their post.

These findings should be viewed in the context of a period of pay restraint, where many headteachers may feel they do not have enough funding to offer PRP bonuses to staff; an issue that has recently been raised by the CEO of a multi-academy trust.

But a headteachers» union warned the tests would not tell teachers «anything they don't already know about their children», and will increase pressure on schools «already cluttered with tests and checks».

Other than details of the trial, this morning's announcement doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know, which, ironically, is what one headteacher's union said about the controversial tests themselves.

Headteacher: Well we thought your child was doing well but after they left the school one qualification was downgraded for all students so after 5 years with us your child actually failed instead of succeeding.

«Anything to do with work went out of the staff room,» said Ceri Hathaway, headteacher of Brooklands Primary School in Derbyshire.

«If somebody had asked me as a headteacher to check on whether somebody was an illegal immigrant, demand their passports from them, I would have said «I've got better things to do with my time thank you very much».»

Some unions have welcomed the changes, with the headteachers» union NAHT claiming the proposal to scrap key stage 1 SATs and replace them with a baseline is «absolutely the right thing to do».

The structure of headteacher boards, which help approve sponsorship changes, does not improve the speed of decisions.

Why do headteachers have such little influence on how the country's education policy is developed?

Maybe state school headteachers are happy with what is done to them and their teachers, and it is true that there are all these incompetents running state schools whilst brilliant unqualified people are running independent schools.