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Page Published: 17 March 2010
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Extreme School Leadership

 

There are people who are daunted by challenge and there are those who thrive on it. In a new series of features, we meet school leaders who fit into the latter category.

 

  • Extreme Heads: Teaching in the ''lion's den'' Young Offenders InstituteStieve Butler, head of education and training at three prisons Cookham Wood and Huntercombe Young Offenders Institutions and the Josephine Butler Unit (an equivalent for girls), talks to Steve Smethurst about the full range of learning difficulties associated with young offenders. 25/10/2010 00:00:00
  • Shakespearean tragedy in Southwark school Globe theatre, SouthwarkYou would hope that things would have changed in Southwark over the past 500 years. But apparently not. Shakespearean tragedy still abounds. Decima Francis knows this all too well. She once trod the boards at the National Theatre as an actress, but has since taken up the challenge of helping black boys excluded from mainstream education and is now head teacher at the From Boyhood to Manhood (FBMF) foundation. 21/09/2010 00:00:00
  • ''The worst school in Britain?'' The Marlow Academy, RamsgateIan Johnson took over Marlowe Academy in 2004 as head teacher of what many people considered to be the 'worst school in Britain'. The Ramsgate School was synonymous with failure; the BBC noting that the school had a truly shocking record: just 4% of pupils managed five GCSEs at grade C or above last year [2003]. This was not a blip. It was 4% the year before and 4% the year before that. 09/07/2010 00:00:00
  • Extreme Heads: Challenges at a Psychiatric Hospital School Bethlem and Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital SchoolJohn Ivens is head teacher and an educational psychologist at the Bethlem and Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital in South London, where he has led the school for the past seven years. 25/06/2010 00:00:00
  • The challenges faced at a hospital school Royal Free Hospital SchoolThe paediatrics department here specialises in gastro, plastics and general surgical, says Jude Chalk, the headteacher at the Royal Free Hospital Children's School (RFHCS) in north London. Her easy use of medical terminology shows how thoroughly immersed she is in the worlds of both health and education. 26/04/2010 00:00:00
  • Dealing with a transient school population teacher and young pupils using microscopeWhen June Foster was laughed at by a careers teacher for saying she wanted to be a teacher, she was determined to succeed. Now an executive headteacher, she has used her fighting spirit at two troubled Newcastle primaries. 24/03/2010 00:00:00
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