Crocodile Shoes
"Look at my shoe,” says a little girl in the lunch queueShe lifts her right foot into the air and the shows me the sole and the upper gaping apart…
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"Look at my shoe,” says a little girl in the lunch queueShe lifts her right foot into the air and the shows me the sole and the upper gaping apart…
Been to the pub yet? Did you manage to get to Debenhams fire sale on Monday? How about a haircut? April 12th was a big day on the roadmap to…
One of the enduring middle-of-the-night staring-at-the-ceiling imponderables of doing this job is the occasional brainworm ‘what would I do if I was no longer a headteacher?’ What else could I…
Half past eight on a mild November morning; a boy and his mother appear outside one of the Year 6 classrooms. There are other children gathering too, waiting for the…
This is a period in the history of our schools like no other before, just as it is an unprecedented period in our lives. Both our junior school and our…
At one point I sat down on a desk in one of the Year 6 classrooms – actually I think I slumped – and involuntarily emitted the words: “What on earth are…
I had the pleasure of listening to a new headteacher give a talk about his first year in the job the other day. He was really good – funny, engaging…
Dear Parents/Carers, As you know the Junior and Infant school, with the assistance of the Local Authority have been in discussions looking at the possibility of whether both schools should…
I have always envied those teachers who meet their ex-pupils years later as adults. It always seems such a rewarding conversation – all the difficult days are forgotten and there…
After our recent Ofsted inspection, one of our young teachers thanked me for keeping the inspector away from her classroom. She had been visited by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for less…