Sentences with phrase «when headteachers»

Noble - Rogers said that, at a time when both headteachers and Ofsted are concerned by a crisis in teacher supply, it is «outrageous that training places are being allocated under a veil of secrecy».

«At a time when headteachers are protesting about a funding crisis in existing schools, directing funds into new schools seems bizarre — particularly when the National Audit Office is questioning if free schools offer value for money.»

However, when headteachers contacted social services with their concerns they were often turned away and one headteacher was told a child would «grow out of it», the inquiry revealed.

When the headteacher and his staff meted out their long - planned litany of horrors, it was not they but Clegg who felt the force of the pupils» revolt.

The school had already made headlines when its headteacher, who was subsequently interdicted by the Ghana Education Service, said first - year students had to pay GHc 80 for desks or risk standing during classes.

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

A spokesperson for Ofsted said inspectors always «gave credit» when a headteacher was tackling a school's weaknesses, particularly in challenging circumstances.

He was responding to Ed Miliband at PMQs who asked where parents and children could go to if they feared extremism in schools, when the headteacher was removed and the governing body was part of the problem,

Not exact matches

Conference is concerned about evidence from the research which shows that when members who are being bullied initiate Grievance Procedures against headteachers or other senior leaders, they may experience a lack of natural justice in the forms of honesty, fairness and impartiality because this same group are the most likely perpetrators of workplace bullying.

«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.

Experts share their top tips on writing plans and give examples they think will be useful for headteachers when writing their first SIP.

«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.»

When I took over as Headteacher the school was on a 3 year downward trend - something needed to change.

This is the mantra that headteachers and education managers should be chanting when planning and developing their learning outside the classroom (LOtC) provision.

Interviews were carried out with teachers, headteachers and other stakeholders and concluded that there are four main perceived challenges for schools when considering the introduction of postural health education and ergonomic furniture: There is sometimes a lack of awareness of the issue in general as well as about the ergonomic furniture options available.

But when we ask headteachers the question «What's your ICT strategy?»

In 2003 the Headteacher author of «When Reservoirs Run Dry» spoke of leaders in education as «Striders, Strollers or Stumblers.»

Not only will you have an exodus of headteachers, but you will have mass resignations from governing bodies, at the very time when schools need experienced people who ask the important question: why?

Many of us discussed the reaction schools would have to the EBacc when it was introduced, and it was why we formed the Headteacher's Roundtable.

Co-founder Allana Gay, deputy headteacher at Lea Valley primary school in north London, said she and colleagues were dismayed when the 2015 school workforce data showed 93.4 per cent of headteachers were white British — a larger percentage than the 87 per cent of white British classroom teachers.

He was replaced by former deputy head Julian Eisner, who was in post as acting headteacher when Ofsted carried out its visit.

«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».»

The National Association of Headteachers said they would lead to unfair sacking of teachers, when children failed as a result of extenuating circumstances unrelated to the quality of education they were receiving.

Clark was the youngest headteacher in the country when she was appointed to lead Oasis Academy John Williams in 2009, at the age of 31, and subsequently worked as education director and South West regional director for Oasis Community Learning before taking up the RSC role.

The research hasn't pleased everyone, however, and teaching unions have shot back, saying headteachers need to make it a «primary aim» not to fire anyone when improving a school.

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.

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.

When leading a school, a good headteacher will have a strategy and a plan for delivering success.

The collection of pupil nationality and country of birth data by schools is a «daft idea», Sir Michael Wilshaw has said, indicating that he would have refused to carry out immigration checks on pupils when he was a headteacher.

Schools Week understands the eight regional schools commissioners (RSCs) are in talks over improved access to specialists who will «offer specific advice when they need it», following criticism that certain parts of the education system are not represented on the headteacher boards.

Clearly there will be bursts of activity — for example, when recruiting a headteacher, and when a school is in difficulty.

When a local authority school has «poor» results, they blame the school, the teachers, the headteachers, the system, the local authority.

«My heart sinks sometimes when I visit schools where headteachers walk into classrooms and none of the children pay a blind bit of attention,» he added.

David Lees, headteacher at Saxmundham Free School, said: «The group of Year 9 students who joined us when the school opened in September 2012 faced a lot of individual educational challenges with 45 per cent at the time being below the expected levels in literacy and 55 per cent below the expected levels in numeracy.

A principal designate is the person who is due to be the principal or headteacher when a free school opens.

The backgrounds of Toby Young, Sir Michael Wilshaw and Sir Anthony Seldon are important when weighing up whether we should accept their advice (and yours) on a new model of producing Headteachers.

«My heart sinks sometimes when I visit schools where headteachers walk into classrooms and none of the children pay a blind bit of attention

She was just 31 and the youngest secondary headteacher in the country when she became Principal of Oasis Academy John Williams in January 2009.

In follow - up reports, Ofsted inspectors have sometimes noted that dealing with the pressures to agree to academisation has itself been a conflicting pressure on a headteacher's time when the school was dealing with the issues raised by the initial unsatisfactory Ofsted report.

The school opened in September 2013 and is led by Siobhan Easton, who became the UK's youngest headteacher when she took over the role this year.

When we launched the Sutton Trust - EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit in 2011, we designed it specifically with busy headteachers in mind.

Parents may also ask a headteacher to enter their child for a test when the school has decided this is not appropriate.

And when I talk about teaching, I'm talking about various roles in the system, so as a class teacher, a senior teacher, a deputy headteacher, and a headteacher, which is the equivalent of a principal.

The funds were threaten when the trust had to suspend its executive headteacher over allegations from staff, including over bullying and HR procedures.

It is a waste of time to deploy the skills of a headteacher in the non-teaching elements of leadership when someone with greater business knowledge would make quicker, more effective, strategic decisions that will still fulfil the vision set by the head and governors.

Olive AP academy, which was itself a PRU in special measures when it joined Olive Academies two years ago, now has a new headteacher after inspectors found poor safeguarding procedures, low attendance, and not enough pupils integrating back into mainstream schools.

When we checked with survey respondents who they would turn to beyond this («if you had a problem with a school and felt that the headteacher had not resolved it, who would you complain to») despite nearly a third of our survey respondents having a child at an academy school, none identified the Education Funding Agency as a body they would contact — even though the EFA is the organisation responsible for handling complaints about academies.

Ofsted rated the school «good» in all categories at its last inspection in 2015, when it was still in temporary buildings, in particular noting strong governance and the headteacher's «strong vision for excellence».