Strategy
Tuesday
Why we test our future Year 7s on a Saturday
This secondary school gets new starters in for tests before they have finished primary – and it pays dividends, even if it does require some weekend working, explains the headteacher
What if... there was no parent choice over schools?
As part of our thought experiment series, Seamus Murphy imagines what the system would look like if every child was automatically enrolled in their nearest school
Monday
Ethical dilemmas: taking another school’s only specialist teacher
In a new series, Tes looks at the difficult ethical decisions that headteachers can face – and explores how following a set of guiding principles is often the best way forward
My Week As... executive head at The Chelmsford Learning Partnership
In our ‘My Week As’ series, a senior sector leader reveals what a typical week looks like in their role. Here, we talk to executive headteacher James Donaldson
