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Diary of a headteacher: Admissions – The pressure mounts

Despite a successful Open Evening, enrolments for next year are still down and so our headteacher diarist is forced to step-up the fight

Monday morning had started off well. As usual I walked through the school grounds past happy children who all said “hello”. We do have a very happy school. But something wasn’t right – I couldn’t quite put my finger on it...

Then the call came. Not the Ofsted call, something much worse. It was the rat call. Our friendly neighbourhood rat population were up to their games again.

Last week, just before our Open Evening, a giant rat had jumped out of a bin and made a beeline for the chest of the site manager. A bit of a shock, to say the least. Being so close to the railway line doesn’t help.

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