The Headteacher's Handbook: The essential guide to leading a primary school

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This must-read guide to being a primary headteacher is filled with practical guidance, tips and advice on all aspects of headship to support and inspire new, current and aspiring headteachers. Written by a headteacher with over 14 years' experience at the helm, The Headteacher's Handbook is the indispensable manual to understanding the role as both an instructional coach and community leader. With a kind and compassionate tone, Rae Snape presents invaluable advice, models, research, motivational quotes and self-reflection questions on a wealth of topics. This includes: - developing and communicating the vision for your school - building a staff team - handling an Ofsted inspection - ensuring inclusion, equality and diversity in your setting - curriculum and assessment design - managing the day-to-day the finances, health and safety, behaviour and everything in-between! The book features examples from Rae's own experiences as well as contributions from some of the most influential and forward-thinking school leaders today, including Dr Kulvarn Atwal, Mary Myatt, Remi Atoyebi, Paul Dix and Christalla Jamil. Also featuring a foreword by Professor Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching, and Sir David Carter's popular framework First 100 Days in Headship, The Headteacher's Handbook is a compendium of all you need to excel as a headteacher.

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This is a comprehensive guide which covers every aspect of taking on the headteacher role. It is at once practical, honest, insightful and, probably most importantly, incredibly useful. If you're new to headship, or planning a move into the role, this is a must-read book. -- Sue Cowley * Author, teacher trainer, presenter and early years manager. Her latest book is 'Learning Behaviours'. @Sue_Cowley *
If you are aspiring to primary headship or have just been appointed, then this book is your must-read guide to being an outstanding leader of your school. -- Dr Neil Hawkes * Former headteacher and founder of Values-based Education, @neilhawkes *
This collection of advice, reflections, warnings and exhortations provides an indispensable handbook not just for the new headteacher but as a refresh for those who have served a while. And in the best headteacher tradition, the author tells some compelling stories too. -- Roy Blatchford CBE * Founder of www.blinks.education, founding CEO of the National Education Trust and former headteacher *
Rae explores some of the more nuanced aspects of the job, guiding the reader through the maze of legal requirements and responsibilities. -- @digicoled * UKEdChat *

Author Bio

Rae Snape is an experienced headteacher in Cambridge and is a National Leader of Education. She is passionate about the transformative power of arts, culture, creativity and connection in young people's lives and, along with other key cultural leaders, was one of the initiators of My Cambridge, a cultural educational partnership for the city. Rae is a co-founder of Cambridgeshire Festival of Education and has previously been Chair of Cambridgeshire School Improvement Board and Vice Chair of the Primary Headteacher Reference Group for the Department for Education. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and Ambassador for HundrED.org. Follow Rae on Twitter: @RaeSnape.