Janine Ashman

Janine Ashman is the Deputy Headteacher at St Peter’s Church of England Primary School, part of the Lighthouse Schools Partnership, in Portishead North Somerset.

Marking: Postmortem or Diagnosis?

Posted by: Janine Ashman, Posted on: 1 February 2018 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload

Our staff survey in January 2016 showed us that workload was an issue at our school. Marking was one of the tasks our teachers were spending a large amount of time on, often over 20 hours a week - but …

Doing fewer things in greater depth: How we reduced teacher workload by restructuring our approach to planning.

Posted by: Janine Ashman, Posted on: 19 October 2017 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload

At St Peter’s Primary school, North Somerset, we have long been looking into ways in which we can try to reduce teacher workload. We began our journey by reading the teacher workload review group paper 'Eliminating unnecessary workload around planning …