School leaders must have felt like desert explorers in recent months, trying to navigate an accurate course towards a hazy objective over constantly shifting sands.
It is difficult to find your way if the surface beneath you is continuously moving. It takes great skill and resolve to stay on track; to stay focused on your vision and your values.
Andy Samways is director of the Research School at Unity Schools Partnership, a family of 25 secondary, primary and special schools located mainly in Suffolk, and also on the Essex and Cambridgeshire borders and in east London.
Mr Samways and his leadership colleagues decided early on that simply reacting to the frequent changes would not be a helpful response for their schools, their staff or their pupils. What was needed was a sense of a strong framework that they could use to prepare for a future which is still uncertain and subject to dramatic last-minute changes.
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