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I have written elsewhere about the importance of establishing the most positive and, I hope, mutually respectful relationship between senior leaders and the rest of the school… Read more “The importance of communication”

Recently the wonderful Carly Waterman posted a tweet featuring an article by India Knight in The Sunday Times Magazine from 15th April.  The article was entitled ‘Women… Read more “Own your success!”

Of the six schools in which I worked as a teacher and leader, three were girls’ schools.  My own education had been entirely in co-ed schools, and… Read more “The joys and challenges of supporting girls”

Growing up, the only thing I ever wanted to do was to be a teacher.  I loved my subject, English, and knew I wanted a career which… Read more “Making a choice”

In the spring of 2015, Deputy Principal Helena Marsh attended a conference called Empowering Women in Education Leadership, which brought together serving and aspiring women leaders from both… Read more “The development of #WomenEd”

School communities are made up of many different groups of people – students, their parents, teachers, support staff, leaders at all levels, governors.  These leaders will, themselves,… Read more “Us and them?”

I know this is a sensitive subject and that not everyone will agree with my take on this, but when I was a head I always found… Read more “Holidays in term time – what do you think?”

I have great respect for Sir Kevan Collins, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, an organisation which has done some great work over the past six… Read more “Twitter – “awful, polarised, adversarial”?”

It was a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to speak at #TLCWorcs18 on Saturday – many thanks to Rachel Stevens and Andrea Taylor for inviting… Read more “Confident leadership and its impact on teaching”