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10 tips for timetables that don’t drive staff crazy
The school timetable can make or break a teacher’s year – this leader offers his hard-won tips on getting them right
29 June 2021
‘It’s time to deal the death blow to league tables’
School league tables are ‘demoralising and hugely unfair to our excellent teachers’, says head John Rutter
General
18 May 2021
7 tips from a headteacher for Covid school timetabling
All students are due back next week after a change to Scotland’s Covid recovery plan. So how do you create a timetable?
9 March 2021
School timetabling for beginners
Stepping up to write the school’s schedule is a fast track to losing friends. But while it’s impossible to keep everyone happy, John Rutter has some advice to minimise the pain
Tips & Techniques
19 February 2021
Which professions make the best career-change teachers?
With the economy suffering the fallout from Covid, many people will be weighing up a career switch into teaching. From ex-bureaucrats to former journalists, John Rutter considers which professionals will be best suited to the job ➧
4 December 2020
The Harry Potter inspection report, Hogwarts and all
After a summer of being force-fed the audiobooks in the car, Muggle John Rutter is left unimpressed with the leadership regime at the famed school of witchcraft and wizardry
9 October 2020
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