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Diary of a headteacher: Dealing with redundancies

Tight budgets and falling rolls means that our headteacher diarist has had to deal with difficult staff redundancies...

During the summer, I read an article entitled How to hack a cheap break in the school holidays. Interesting reading for anyone who works in schools. After 25 years in the profession, my experience is that you really can’t hack a cheap trip during the holidays.

This year, our summer term continued all the way up until July 24. That would not have seemed quite so late if every other local school and even those in our neighbouring boroughs had not all broken up on the 19th. Some before that. At least the streets of east London were empty of the usual school rush.

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