The Primary Head : Roles, Responsibilities and Reflections

In this book, primary headteachers present their thoughts on headship. With the Education Reform Act, Local Management of Schools and the enormously increased role of school

governors, to say nothing of the National Curriculum, headteachers today face an exceptionally difficult and complex task. The heads in this book run schools both large and small; urban, rural and suburban; with and without ethnic minority pupils. The heads themselves are of widely differing ages, cultures and backgrounds. Each presents a fascinating account of their school and its community, details of the management of their school, the organization of learning, the relationships between head, staff, pupils and parents and, most important of all, their own unique and personal reflections on headship.

It is the companion volume to The Secondary Head, by the same editors.