Submitted by Charlotte Rains on 31st January 2017
Submitted by Charlotte Rains on 30th January 2017
Professor David Woods CBE, Chairman of London Leadership Strategy
‘A leader is an individual who significantly affects the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of a significant number of individuals’
Submitted by Charlotte Rains on 16th December 2016
Submitted by reallyquiteadmin on 7th November 2016
Focus
The introduction of a National Funding Formula is likely to move funding from London and other metropolitan areas. Part of the success of London schools can be attributed to the ability to target resources where they are most needed. To remove these resources now puts everything which has been achieved at risk. This paper offers some reflection on why we need to fund all schools at the higher level.
Submitted by Aidan on 28th September 2016
London leadership is unique, special and complex. You can wear many hats, all complementary and spin many plates, all precarious. My role as Headteacher of Barham, an expanding, titan, multi-everything, global majority, family-feel primary school in Wembley, for the last thirteen years has evolved and morphed into an experience similar to the lure of a chocolate fountain: rich, indulgent but with a health warning.
Submitted by Aidan on 14th September 2016
On hearing that grammar schools were coming back, I immediately thought thank goodness Theresa May and her cabinet had not taken homeopathic medicine and believed it worked. If they had, that would be the evidence base used to justify introducing homeopathy into every hospital.
Submitted by Aidan on 1st September 2016
I remember the moment when Sarah’s file landed on my desk. It was a tragic history of neglect, failed placements and exclusions. Sarah, despite being in Year 9, was barely able to read. Numerous cancelled appointments at CAMHS had led to her case being closed, re-opened and then closed again.
Submitted by Aidan on 2nd August 2016
“History says, Don't hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme”
The Cure at Troy - Seamus Heaney
The ‘Cure at Troy’ and Moral Purpose
Submitted by Aidan on 12th July 2016