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‘Just what teachers need: another school yard craze - Fidget Spinners’
They might be so annoying that they risk the professions’ collective blood pressure, but keep your cool: fidget spinners will soon be forgotten, says one headteacher
5 May 2017
‘All politicians too often identify something that works in one school and insist on replicating it everywhere’
There is no universal solution to policymakers’ demands, writes one headteacher. Diversity in schools must be encouraged: but legislating to make it happen won’t work
30 April 2017
‘I’m convinced: mental health must be on the curriculum and teachers need to realise their essential role in teaching it’
Yes, we try to cram too much into the curriculum, writes one celebrated head. But mental health isn’t just anything: it’s essential
23 April 2017
‘For just a few days this Easter, dear teachers, please step away from the workload’
Please, please, please try to forget the feckless parents, digitally-addled teenagers, new GCSE grades, funding crises and the rest, writes one celebrated head
13 April 2017
‘To confuse truancy with the odd holiday seems to me heavy-handed and even oppressive’
Our legislature deciding on the nature and style of exams or parents’ rights to take their child on holiday during term-time represents grotesque misuses of function and time
8 April 2017
‘Letting teenagers start late? Routine is something they have to learn - deal with it’
New research finally debunks the myth that a later school start time would benefit teenagers’ learning, writes one headteacher
2 April 2017
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