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Diary of a headteacher: Remembering why we are here

Leadership/school profiles
As a new year begins, Tom Donohoe sets a challenge to all headteachers – when the going gets tough, remember why you do what you do

So how are we all feeling at the start of another academic year? Excited? Apprehensive? Refreshed? Recharged? Exhausted already?

When I got to July 2016, I looked back on what was possibly the most exhausting 12 months of my career since my NQT year. It may just be that I am getting older (and with age slightly less energetic) or it may be that trying to raise funds to build a major new sports facility, establish ourselves as a Teaching

School and prepare for our first year as a QTS-awarding SCITT was all just a bit too much! On top of that we had the new SATs to contend with and the ins and outs with the White Paper (are we all going to become academies or has there really been some backtracking?!).

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