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Headship
Whether it's how to develop CPD, write a report to governors or work with your SLT, develop your leadership skills as headteacher with these resources.
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If you’re looking for a headship role but suffer a fear of finance, utilise your SBL. Hilary Goldsmith highlights the support SBLs can provide to heads
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Managing the school budget is a key part of headship. Paul Ainsworth outlines the legal responsibilities and financial questions all headteachers should ask
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Headteachers tell us what the standards mean in practice for them and how they can be used to improve school leadership. Suzanne O'Connell discusses the changes from the updated standards for headteachers
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Teachers are the most important resource headteachers have but what do you do when you inherit disengaged staff? Suzanne O’Connell provides strategies for re-engaging the disaffected
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Download our example templates and use our guidance to write an effective headteacher report to governors
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Prepare for your role as a new headteacher with advice from Josephine Smith on how to deal with your responsibilities and questions to ask about crucial areas of accountability
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New to headship and with an Ofsted rating to improve, Jagdeep Birdi describes the steps he took to move the school forward
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Silverdale School was judged outstanding in its latest inspection. New headteacher, Roisin Paul, explains how she tackled the dip in standards that could have threatened the school’s reputation
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It's what you've been waiting for: the chance to leave deputy headship behind and have your own school. But what are you actually going to do now? Suzanne O'Connell looks at those first months of headship
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How do you make an impact after only six weeks as head in a new school? Richard Langford, headteacher at Pontesbury CE Primary School, describes how he made an impact