Welcome to Headteacher Update 28 Jan 2012
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Teachers urged to contribute to SEN debate
Teachers and schools need to have more flexibility in the classroom to provide the best provision for students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). It has also been claimed that the awareness of conditions such as autism needs to be raised to...
Ofsted calls time on ‘satisfactory’ grading
Ofsted has scrapped its “satisfactory” judgement and replaced it with the term “requires improvement”. The inspectorate has said that the change is to target “coasting” schools which have remained “stubbornly satisfactory” for a number of inspections...
Unions clash over one-term sackings
Teaching and leadership unions have clashed following the government’s decision to allow headteachers to sack underperforming teachers within a term. It can currently take more than a year for a school to remove a teacher from the classroom but...
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Free schools: one term down
Becoming a headteacher for the first time can be a daunting experience. Only the most supremely confident professional would admit to feeling no trepidation or wondering how they were going to manage the enormity of the task they had taken on....