Autumn 2013
In this edition Pupil premium: making an impact Support for heads: never walk alone Developing your team Taking charge of your career Governor development Reaching out: specialist leaders of education
Pupil premium: making an impact How you use the pupil premium is more important than ever. In this article, Jeremy Sutcliffe highlights the recent announcements and talks to school leaders involved in finding effective strategies. For nearly two decades John Dunford has been urging governments to provide schools with extra money to educate disadvantaged children. So when the coalition
Leadership interview: creating confident young learners
government introduced the pupil premium two years ago he was one of its most vocal supporters. “The pupil premium is one of the best policies in education we have seen for many years. It’s something I personally was advocating as far back as 1995 – that schools should be given additional money to recognise the greater size of the task of educating disadvantaged young people,” says the former general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).