When you arrive as headteacher in a new (to you at least) school, it is a challenge to know where to start: Meet the staff. Meet the parents. Meet the children. Meet the governors? And in what order?
In the past five years, I have arrived as a new headteacher at two schools and both times on first arriving I made sure to ask the children some clichéd yet pertinent questions, especially about the language of learning (that’s learning, not doing). These include:
Subject to the answers you receive, I feel you can begin to get an idea of the journey the school needs to go on. And by school, I do mean the whole community it serves: governors, parents, staff and children.
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