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It’s that time again. All the hope of a new school year combined with the body shock of getting up early each morning. And then, just as we think the endless first week has ended, we submit ourselves to the rigours of academic thinking that we hope will be of some use to us in […]
November 11, 2017
Today saw the end of our Teaching School Alliance’s first iteration of our programme ‘Working with Complexity in School Leadership’. After six Saturday morning sessions across 2017, the six members of our first cohort bade farewell to one another at the conclusion of what, for me, has been the most interesting and enjoyable CPDL of […]
July 1, 2017
This year at Canons, our People & Professionalism Team took the bold step of making all our non-departmental, non-year team meetings optional to staff. Many years ago we made our Teaching and Learning Communities (TLCs) optional in terms of which ones teachers could choose (so many schools still direct staff), but this was the next […]
June 27, 2017
Building Family Partnerships: The InvolvEd way. This post was written by Darren Silver, the Digital Advocate at Canons High School, about his work developing and trialling an app with InvolvEd. Let’s be honest, in the world of education it is no secret that parental engagement is crucial when it comes to improving student learning outcomes. […]
June 6, 2017
A few days ago I received this tweet from Laura McInerney. Which included a link to this Guardian article she had written. Now it’s always nice to be name-checked for something, and even more so when that name-check is for a very well-intentioned article on an issue you care deeply about, by a person you […]
May 11, 2017
In my last blogpost I wrote about the kind of school we try to be at Canons. In response, someone suggested that I try to capture staff perspectives about working at the school. What a great idea, I thought. The next day I asked staff in briefing to contribute their thoughts so that I could […]
May 1, 2017
Are you looking for a school that cares as much for its staff as for its students: a school that knows that it is only through caring for staff that it can care for students? Are you bruised and battered by your experiences in the education sector: contemplating leaving work in schools because of the […]
September 7, 2019
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