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James Handscombe
All articles by James Handscombe
We should all walk about as if we own the place
If all staff and students take responsibilty for welcoming guests, holding doors open and picking up litter, then everyone can truly take ownership of your school
3 March 2017
‘The acute shortage of excellent maths teachers is down to the government - here’s my solution’
A radical review of school incentives and more collaboration between schools, universities and government – James Handscombe, a sixth-form head (pictured), provides his strategy to remedy the shortage of excellent maths teachers
9 February 2017
‘A teacher’s role is to take the restrictions of the curriculum and build within it such inspiration and fascination that students are carried with us’
Constraints inspire creativity rather than quench it, writes one sixth form head
25 October 2016