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Diary of a headteacher: The challenges of timetabling

Creating the perfect timetable is a challenge as we must balance the competing needs of students, teachers and subjects…

We are approaching the end of the academic year and during these last few weeks I don’t tend to see my deputy head much; he is locked away completing the timetable, putting the finishing touches to our framework for teaching and learning.

Timetabling is an incredibly important job; it is one of those integral pieces of work that ensures the school operates successfully on a daily basis.

There is no getting away from the fact that a school cannot run without an organised framework that denotes where students and teachers need to be for every hour of the school day, for 190 days a year.

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