Retaining great teachers through flexible working
Matthew Leeming, Headteacher at Kings’ School in Winchester, shares their approach to flexible working - the benefits they’ve seen for the staff and school, and the barriers they’ve faced.
Teacher wellbeing
Why we need to support teacher mental health to support our students
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Steve Rippin, Posted on:
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Pupil wellbeing and behaviour, Teacher mental health, Teacher wellbeing
Steve Rippin explains why securing first-rate teacher mental health and wellbeing at his school has led to the very best experience for pupils.
Two heads are better than one
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Alison Fitch and Rebecca Stacey, Posted on:
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Flexible working, School leadership, Teacher wellbeing
Alison Fitch and Rebecca Stacey are co-headteachers at Boxgrove Primary School in Surrey. Following the launch of the DfE’s teacher recruitment and retention strategy, which outlined steps to promote flexible working in schools, Alison and Rebbeca explain how they make job-sharing work for them.
How we stopped marking
Reducing teacher workload with new marking strategies When I decided I just had to do something about reducing the crushing workload that our marking policy was inflicting on our teachers, I shared with the staff accounts of what a couple …
Managing staff workload – a governor’s perspective
...we would be able to define a common set of data that meets the needs of both. Getting started To achieve this, I met with the assistant headteacher and data...
Outstanding does not mean overworked
...child in their class by using whichever approach works best for them, and their pupils. Pupils are taught so that they are supported in their learning or stretched, depending on...
Quality, not quantity: how teacher workload has been reduced by focusing on quality
Last year, at Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley, West Yorkshire, the findings of the Marking, Planning and Data Workload Review groups were presented to colleagues in a whole-staff meeting. Everyone from classroom teachers to SLT was asked to think …
Marking: Postmortem or Diagnosis?
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 …
Using Curriculum Area Development Time to reduce teacher workload
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Jo Philpott, Posted on:
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Curriculum best practice, Reducing teacher workload
Like many of the schools in this series of blog posts, our first point of call when looking to address teacher workload were the three independent review group reports on the topic. Staff forums and regular meetings provided our Senior …
Flexible working: Putting our pupils at the heart of our flexible working policy
The first thing to note about our flexible working policy at Hearts Academy Trust is that it is about our pupils and not our staff – although it benefits them too, obviously.