It is the beginning of my 23rd year as a teacher and it is my first autumn term as head. I have now been a teacher for longer than I wasn’t. What a scary but strangely liberating thought. My journey started in a classroom in Essex in September 1995 and I’ve seen a lot, an awful lot – the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ve worked in schools in Greenwich, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, a good spattering of London boroughs to have experienced enough. But still, my first encounter of life as headteacher has literally been the gift that keeps on giving.
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