One of my colleagues often tells the tale of somebody calling out “Sue!” at a headteachers’ conference and half the room turning round in response.
By looking at everyone registered with either of The Key’s two services, we’ve produced Wordles of the 100 most popular names for headteachers and governors.
Did your name make the list? Have a look and see…
Reblogged this on The Echo Chamber.
An interesting comparison would be word clouds of the names of “middle class parents aged between 40 & 60”.
Indeed! Unfortunately at The Key we don’t have a data set on that…
Why would that be relevant?
I assumed that RDK was referring to the wordle of the most popular governor names, and considering what it suggests about the make up of governing bodies. We’ve seen quite a lot of media interest in this topic recently, especially following the publication of this report by the University of Bath and the NGA: http://www.inspiringgovernors.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The_State_of_School_Governing_in_England_Report.pdf
What would be more interesting would be to factor in the figures for each name as a proportion of total numbers in the UK population and also to look at the age profile.
But then maybe there are more useful things to do?…….,,,,