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The recruitment challenge

After welcoming a record 30 new members of staff this term, our headteacher diarist considers the range of skills, talents & hard work that goes into the recruitment process.

Term started just eight days ago and what an eight days it has been! The weather seems to have pitched forward into November with rain, rain and more rain and temperatures so cold as to require the donning of hats, scarves and gloves!

“Heating is on,” were the first words from my site manager before we even got to the good mornings and “how are you?”  

The first day back was as busy as it always is and particularly so as we welcomed 30 new members of staff including 24 teachers. We are a very large school with more than 250 staff but this still represents a significant change for us (about 20 per cent of the teaching workforce).

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