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Moving from secondary to primary leadership

Rachel Ward has made the move from secondary to primary school leadership. She discusses her experiences and the differences she has found

Sometimes, when opportunities present themselves, you can’t turn them down. This time last year I was associate vice-principal in the secondary school I had taught at for the past seven years. Now, I am coming to the end of my first term as assistant head at a primary academy in Bradford. My move from secondary to primary has been enlightening and rewarding in equal measure.

I was not a complete alien to primary. I write professional development programmes and had previously trained primary teachers as well as secondary; I had also worked in a primary school as part of a Specialist Leader of Education secondment.

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