The School Leader's Year

Month-by-Month Progress, Every Lesson, Every Day

Michael Harpham

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000463842
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Secondary Education

This practical handbook offers a month-by-month guide to the curriculum, assessment, progress, and leadership over the school year. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and coherent structure to the academic year helping school leaders to prioritise their time and workload, supporting them and their team to work as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Considering the statutory and key leadership activities from admissions, induction, transitions, and parents' evenings to coursework, timetabling, assessment, staff performance, and much more, the book provides a clear plan of action to ensure school leaders have prepared their work at the optimal time over the year. Each chapter features tried-and-tested strategies to help schools put robust systems and processes in place alongside guidance on sustaining pace, developing resilience, and exam preparation and technique.

Full of practical tips to help improve progress and including real-world examples of leadership in action from leaders working in primary and secondary schools, this is essential reading for all school leaders that want their students to be as successful as they can possibly be in every lesson, every day.

Autumn term: Sowing seeds

DOI: 10.4324/9781003129691-1

Autumn term summary
Key	Statutory activity (higher priority)		Non-statutory activity (lower priority)
Action that evaluates and celebrates previous work	Action that supports current work		Action that prepares future work
A–Z of key school activities	September	October	November	December
Admissions
Appeals
Assemblies
Assessment programme
Budget
Capital bids
Census
Coursework, Catch Up, and Revision programmes
End/start of term
Exams and careers
Improvement Plans/ School Evaluation Form(SEF)/continuing professional development (CPD)
Induction and Summer School
Integrated framework
Monitoring and tracking
Options
Parents’ Evenings
Performance appraisal and pay
Policies
Pupil recruitment/destinations
Quality assurance
Repairs and maintenance
Routines and duties
Schemes of Work/Personal, Social, Health, and Economic education (PSHE)
Staff recruitment
Statutory requirements
Surveys
Tests
Timetable
Website, displays, and Open Evening

September

DOI: 10.4324/9781003129691-2

September is the start of a new academic year. A time where lessons from the previous year can be learnt and the course of action for the new year set.

September needs to be experienced with clarity.

Introduction: September

So here we are. Day 1, Week 1. Everything is fresh and new and has the air of optimism as time and space stretch into the distance. The following strategies are for school leaders to use at either the whole school or the department level. Here is what you have ahead of you in September.

September summary
Key
Action that evaluates and celebrates previous work	Action that supports current work	Action that prepares future work
Statutory activity (higher priority)		Non-statutory activity (lower priority)
Action	Leaders	School focus for September
	All leaders	Evaluate annual exam results
	Senior leaders	Evaluate pupil recruitment a...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the author
• Introduction
• Part 1 Autumn term: Sowing seeds
• Part 2 Spring term: Nurturing growth
• Part 3 Summer term: Reaping the harvest
• Concluding thoughts
• Suggested websites
• Bibliography
• Index