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Brian Walton
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‘I don’t need Christmas gifts (especially fish) because the moments of utter joy I get doing the job I do is enough’
Being in a school is the greatest gift, it is the best Christmas present any one in education could want, writes one leading headteacher
18 December 2016
‘This testing regime heaps so much pressure on school leaders - I may be forced to work abroad’
Schools in China concentrate on providing a broad and balanced education – yet schools here, in desperate pursuit of the right ‘results’, have to narrow their focus, writes one leading primary head
7 November 2016
‘Why are we so obsessed with narrow (utterly flawed) tests and where the highest scores are?’
League tables bleed the curriculum of content and experiences, writes one leading primary head
3 September 2016
‘I’ve been in education for over 20 years, led in four different schools, and yet my voice is lost in the wind’
Policy is nothing without practice. It must resonate with the true education experts – teachers and headteachers, says one school leader
19 July 2016
‘So much rides on Sats that the real purpose of education is lost as we are seduced by statistical positioning’
The end of the year should not be about analysing results but a celebration of the amazing things taking place in schools every day, says one leading primary headteacher
5 July 2016
‘It amazes me how quickly the corporate mind of business has infiltrated our schools’
Are we blindly all following a corporate Pied Piper with no real idea of the consequences, asks one leading headteacher
26 May 2016