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...one sick child, a loss in the spelling sweepstake and several grammar chants later, Sats Week is over, writes one primary headteacher

I have been in schools during Sats week where the anxiety hangs like a shroud – the children can sense the fear as they walk the corridors

This is not about heads being able to teach a class and understand a teacher’s modern day struggles, it’s about the lack of trust within our profession, writes one leading headteacher

Taking on apprentices can be a way to create exciting opportunities and intricately develop schools’ involvement in teacher training, writes one leading headteacher

Heads have bought into the ‘results means success’ rhetoric, chased bigger and better Ofsted gradings and become distracted from our core role, argues one leading headteacher

I love each and every gift that a student has given me – but it is the real gift of the job is knowing I can make a difference’