If you want to know about the culture of a school, speak to the supply teacher or the student teacher. How are they made to feel, how are they valued.
They will tell you what really matters.
The work that early years staff do at this time of the year is utterly remarkable.
It could be easy to overlook this because they will say that it’s ‘just what they do’.
But let’s stop and take a moment.
It’s exceptional.
Leaders are the mood makers in schools - the way in which we make all members of staff feel included, supported and valued at the start of term sets the standard for the year to come.
If there’s one thing that technology has stolen from education, it’s the joy on the faces of the little ones when you ask them to go on the greatest of all adventures.
Taking the register back to the office.
Good teachers make it look easy, so folks assume it is.
THIS leads to people who have only been in the classroom as a student thinking they know exactly what it’s like to do a teacher’s job.
You know…
‘It’s so simple’
‘Such short hours’
‘Summers off’
‘The perfect kids’