Primary Leadership Focus

The A-Z of school life – Momentum, Not important/important, Opportunities, People and Questions

A-Z of school life examines maintaining the momentum, sorting out the important from the not important, making the most of opportunities, people and questions, questions, Jane Golightly has written extensively on school improvement and has more than 30 years experience in primary educationuestions

The A-Z of school life – Inclusion, Jigsaws, Knowing your school and Leadership

This week, the A-Z of school life continues to examine some of the vital parts of your role as school leader, including inclusion and knowing your school

The A-Z of school life – Fit for the Future, Getting to Grips and Health

Jane Golightly continues to offer suggestions about areas in which you could initiate school improvement in your school

The A-Z of school life – Children, Decisions and the Early Years

This second A-Z e-bulletin continues to provide some food for thought about your management role

The A-Z of school life – Attention to detail and Breaking bad habits

The first in a A-Z series examining important, but sometimes overlooked, aspects of your role in managing your school

Making the most of relationships beyond the school

Children’s centres, multi-agency teams and other schools are valuable resources for every educational setting. This issue looks at how partnerships can help you to work towards the best outcomes for children

Making the most of your relationship with parents

This issue explores how you can evaluate and improve your school’s relationship with parents, presenting the vital questions to ask of your school and staff

Ensuring that children get the most out of primary school

Primary Headship looks at those key ingredients that make the experience of school worthwhile, and asks why we don’t always seem carry through those values which make the Early Years Foundation Stage so positive for children

Primary leaders - are you making the most of your staff?

This ezine shows that there’s no secret to good staff management – communication, building and maintaining relationships and managing staff development are the keys to a satisfied and effective school workforce

Are you making the most of yourself as a primary school leader?

Jane Golightly starts the term by asking - are you making the most of yourself as a school leader? - and offers examples of best practice to measure yourself against

Transform your work with families

Schools can do their best for each child only if families and carers are involved in children’s learning. Jane Golightly considers the reasons why some schools are great at involving families, while others struggle

Thinking about visible leadership

Jane Golightly asks, how well do you know your school, are you a visible leader, and advises on how to rectify both

How to make sure your school makes a difference

Jane Golightly discusses how to make sure that your educational establishment makes a difference in your pupils lives

Taking the right road to achieve your priorities

Jane Golightly gives advice on how to keep your priorities in sight when using data to focus on your school improvement

Being a resilient and flexible school leaders

Former headteacher Jane Golightly discusses how to be a successful leader by detailing what she thinks are important school leadership skills - including being resilient and flexible

The importance of following up on your monitoring and evaluation policy

When carrying out your school's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) policy, is it vital that you follow up and act upon your findings in order to make the process effective, says Jane Golightly

School leadership: back to basics

Jane Golightly, author of Primary Leadership Focus, welcomes those in primary school leadership to a new school year and gives 'back to basics' advice on school policy

Eight things to do before the end of term: school leaders

As we approach the end of one academic year and prepare for the next, Jane Golightly suggests eight jobs that primary leaders should do before school closes, so that September gets off to a flying start

Headteachers: five things to never say in school

What five things should you never say in a school setting? Former headteacher Jane Golightly discusses five comments that she advises senior leadership to steer clear of in order to maintain positive school leadership

Primary leadership: end of year hot topics

What difference has your school made this year and how can you prepare for the next? Jane Golightly, school leadership and school improvement expert, discusses hot leadership topics for consideration at the end of the year

Developing life skills using inside and outside environments

During this term we are focusing on aspects of school improvement that can be improved with a ‘spring clean’ (see Issue 10). In this edition it’s time for a spring clean of the indoor and outdoor environments to promote life skills

School improvement: 'spring cleaning' attitudes to learning

During the summer term, Primary Leadership Focus will discuss some of the different aspects of school improvement that can be improved with a thorough ‘spring clean’; beginning with attitudes to learning

Sustaining a home-school partnership with primary parents

Jane Golightly previously discussed why home-school partnerships are valuable and how to build one with parents. In this issue, she discusses the importance of sustaining and developing these relationships throughout the child's primary years

Developing a home-school partnership with primary parents: why and how

An effective home-school partnership is vital for giving learners the best opportunities possible. Jane Golightly discusses why it matters and how it can be built in Primary Leadership Focus

Making the most of your partnership with governors

As part of Primary Leadership Focus, Jane Golightly considers the important role that governors play in a primary school, and affirms the importance of a good school-governor partnership

Leadership themes to support the professional development offer

Clarity of leadership themes is an ambition we should strive for in our schools – in this case, with reference to CPD. Here Jane Golightly looks at two themes to start the discussion - the big picture within the school and outward-looking CPD for multi-agency working

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