Sir Alex Ferguson once famously described the culmination of the football season as “squeaky bum time” and as a headteacher, I am approaching the end of May with the same level of trepidation.
The teacher resignation deadline looms ominously and the fear of a receiving a letter from one of my teachers late in May will weigh heavily on my mind until we welcome the month of June.
Every year I wonder whether or not I will be joining in the mad scramble to recruit a teacher late in the summer term.
It really shouldn’t be like this, but we are unfortunately still operating within an education system where teacher shortages are a harsh reality. If one of my teaching staff resign late in May then I will be hoping to recruit a talented NQT – although I know that the best ones will already be snapped up by that point.
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