HEAD TEACHER Head teachers are leaders of their schools, and create suitable conditions for children and staff.
What does a head teacher do?
In a typical role a head teacher is likely to:work with the governing body to decide the school’s values, making these known to pupils, staff, parents and the wider community make staff aware of key priorities,
Giving tasks to teams and individuals with instructions to evaluate and review set high expectations of learning and achievement for staff and pupil use data to track performance against targets and challenge poor results make sure parents and pupils are informed about progress and how they can support improvement
Use the school to pull together the local community, working with others to increase learning opportunities create a healthy and safe space for learning, promoting equal opportunities and respect for difference select, support, assess and develop staff lead and attend meetings, inside and outside of school review your practice and seek support from others control school finances in line with funding regulations be accountable for every way in which the school is managed
.