Before half-term, my Primary colleagues were asking for early access to ‘End of Year Reports.’ Dig into that request and staff were planning to assign time during their well-earned break to “get ahead.” There is no doubt that Reports are …
For the most part as a senior leader, you find yourself driving that improvement; designing, consulting, implementing, monitoring, assessing, reflecting, refining… The move to headship has requires that you drive improvement however more often than not, you are not the lead. Take our …
Having a strategy, having a destination, is not enough. You need to have a timeline that shows when each of these steps will take place, and when each prototype will become more solid, should they prove successful. These tools enable …
With just six reporting cycles under my belt at The Wellington Academy, this term saw the release of Progress Reports to all seven year groups, within days of the term coming to end. Reflecting back over this process, I hoped might just …
You know it’s been an exciting day when you get a post title like the one above and yet, I hope I might be able save my data colleagues some valuable time. Having written (and re-written and updated) my first governors …
A derth of deadlines haunts many professional teachers. Leading on data means that I am not only subject to those deadlines, a set them those deadlines. In setting and managing those deadlines this terms, this is what I have learnt. The …
