Sentences with phrase «where 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

«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.

Permission to sign In the cases discussed in the programme, the problem generally arose where headteachers were signing leases which would previously have been handled by the school's local authority.

As education secretary I visited many schools and could see those schools where the headteacher and all the staff were building not just knowledgeable young people but also engaged and confident pupils.

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.

«It is shocking that almost half of secondary school students in England are taught in schools where the headteacher believes that staff shortages are hindering learning.

Not exact matches

«Governing Bodies should be warned that where our members are asked or put under pressure to undertake additional work in the light of a headteacher boycotting the SATs, there is a real possibility of the school facing a formal dispute with the NASUWT.»

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.

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.

«We have regular multi ‑ agency meetings throughout the year where education, health and social care professionals get together,» says Allison Taylor, assistant headteacher.

A headteacher at a primary school in the West Midlands said: «We had an incident recently where a child new to the school was threatened by a group of other boys.

A short, simple board game where children roll a dice to get navigate their way from their first day in school to their last, avoiding obstacles (e.g. visit to the headteacher, forgetting homework etc) along the way.

Fiona Hims, Executive Headteacher of the Cluster, comments, «It is clear that young people achieve their best in a climate of high expectations where teachers are motivated and empowered.

Sir Michael points to examples of academies and other exceptional schools in deprived areas, such as Mossbourne Community Academy, where he was headteacher.

Where schools miss targets headteachers frequently lose their jobs.

«By making savings and efficiencies, I am maximising the proportion of my Department's budget which is allocated directly to frontline headteachers — who can then use their professional expertise to ensure that it is spent where it will have the greatest possible impact.

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.

She is an English teacher and Senior Assistant Headteacher at St. Ursula's Convent School, where she leads on Key Stage 3 assessment and maximising the achievement of upper ability pupils.

The east of England and north east London headteacher board, chaired by RSC Tim Coulson, approved 16 academy orders during the period, the highest number, while the lowest number came from north west London and south central England, where Martin Post's board approved just two.

Our previous study of the actions and impacts of 411 headteachers trying to turn around a failing school found there was only one type of leader who had a positive long - term impact, where the school continued to improve long after they'd left.

In a world where struggling Headteachers are asked to supply action plans by the LA, RSC, Ofsted and sometimes the academy chain, many Heads appreciate the visit of a PiXL associate whose only agenda is to ask: «how can I help?»

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,

I assume that this school chose to become an academy to escape the clutches of its supposedly «controlling» LA, where there was at least a semblance of democratic accountability, only to fall into the hands of «unelected, unaccountable» civil servants who «are suffocating headteachers from doing their jobs».

Can you point to anywhere in this article where it refers to any suggestion that an executive headteacher should come from outside the teaching profession?

Peter was Deputy Headteacher at Greenford High School in Southall, West London where as Head of Teaching and Learning he helped secure a 19 % rise in GCSE results and an outstanding Ofsted report in a school where the majority of children have English as a Second Language and nearly 30 % are on Free School Meals.

Helena Mills joined Burnt Mill School as Headteacher in January 2010 having taught and led in East London where she lives, and has led the rapid improvement of the school, judged in November 2012 to be outstanding in all categories.

Valerie has worked in both the maintained and independent sectors for over 30 years and is currently the Headteacher at independent Sheffield High School where she has been since 2004.

Gary is Deputy Headteacher at Isca Academy in Exeter where he leads Teaching and Learning.

We've taken our analytical scalpel to the brains of headteachers and deputies, as well as middle leaders, for example, and found that the staff area of our website is where they view most articles.

Where there is significant change, it is usual for working groups to be set up; in many authorities there are headteachers and other school staff with a lot of expertise and knowledge of school funding formulae, built up over years of involvement.

One special needs headteacher I asked said more effort has gone into arranging ways to «throw out» special - needs children from mainstream schools than has gone in to improving the places where they are being flung.

The headteacher at the school where the pupil is registered is responsible for ensuring that the tests are administered according to the published guidance and that the completed test scripts are returned to their home school immediately after the tests.

Police are warning schools that although scammers may know personal details about headteachers to convince staff they are genuine, they should be mindful of where they have been obtained from, for example, a public - facing school website.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at Frank Wise school in Oxford (pictured), said he was worried that multi-academy trusts (MATs) saw secondary and primary schools as their «leader» and «struggles to see» where special schools would «fit in within that community».

Dominic Findlay, headteacher of Langley School in Norwich, where pupils also take the science iGCSE, said his school was similarly affected.

Ahead of the National Primary School Offer Day new figures reveal that the education of 350,000 children has been transformed after their previously underperforming schools were turned into sponsored academies - where education experts and leading headteachers take over the running of the school.

headteacher of the school where the child or young person attends agrees (this is only if the service or activity will take place within the school).