“The soft things are the hard things.” This is a great Michael Fullan quote and it is something about which I have thought a lot in my first term as a headteacher.
The way I like to interpret this quote is that in the humdrum of day-to-day school life, headteachers neglect the “soft things” at their peril.
During the whirlwind of the first few weeks I prioritised getting to know the school and the people in the school – specifically the staff, the students and the governors.
Since then I have spent a great deal of time making sure we have all the right documents in the right places and that they are as up-to-date as they can be.
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