The Key supports over 100,000 school leaders and governors in England and Wales. Key insights is The Key’s blog on school leadership and governance, featuring analysis and comment from those working in and for schools.
One school that I visited before Christmas was a community primary school in a pocket of relative affluence in an otherwise deprived area. They, as most schools, were doing their cooking and nutrition subject in a block before Christmas. Their Year Four children were making…
Guest post: Promoting and improving health in schools
Louise Nichols, Headteacher of Gayhurst Primary tells us how she promotes health across her schools... If you want to get involved with the campaign, you can tweet UK Secretary of State for Education, @DamianHinds with…
If school staff Christmas parties were inspected …
Christmas parties are tense occasions. There’s a constant worry that at least one staff member will get way too drunk. There’s a much bigger worry that the drunk staff member will be you. No one wants to wake up the morning after with their final…
Safeguarding parents – updates from the Facebook groups
This week I have been looking at safeguarding children by directly safeguarding parents. As we all know, children can be subjected to true terrors in their home, as through no fault of their own they can be witness to something that we have no control…
I have recently been out and about talking to Local Authorities and rural schools about the findings from our recent report “The challenges of leading a rural school”, with them telling me many of the…
When we set homework we usually know who will bring it back having attempted it by themselves, those who will have had their parents do it and those who will never bring it back full stop. In this blog I want to question the benefit…
