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The Headteacher's Handbook

The Headteacher’s Handbook

The essential guide to leading a primary school 

By Rae Snape

Foreward by Alison Peacock 

Bloomsbury and Rae Snape

Written by a headteacher with over 14 years’ experience at the helm, The Headteacher’s Handbook is the indispensable manual to understanding the role as both an instructional coach and community leader. With a kind and compassionate tone, Rae Snape presents invaluable advice, models, research, motivational quotes and self-reflection questions on a wealth of topics. This includes:

  • developing and communicating the vision for your school
  • building a staff team
  • handling an Ofsted inspection
  • ensuring inclusion, equality and diversity in your setting
  • curriculum and assessment design
  • managing the day-to-day – the finances, health and safety, behaviour and everything in-between!

The book features examples from Rae’s own experiences as well as contributions from some of the most influential and forward-thinking school leaders today, including Dr Kulvarn Atwal, Mary Myatt, Remi Atoyebi, Paul Dix and Christalla Jamil. Also featuring a foreword by Professor Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College of Teaching, and Sir David Carter’s popular framework First 100 Days in Headship.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rae Snape is an experienced headteacher currently leading a primary school in Cambridge. Rae is also a National Leader of Education, co-founder of the Cambridgeshire Festival of Education and former Vice Chair of the Primary Headteacher Reference Group for the Department for Education. Follow Rae on Twitter: @RaeSnape.

REVIEWS 
‘This collection of advice, reflections, warnings and exhortations provides an indispensable handbook not just for the new headteacher but as a refresh for those who have served a while.’
  Roy Blatchford, CBE
‘It is at once practical, honest, insightful and, probably most importantly, incredibly useful.’
  Sue Cowley 

5th August 2021

Paperback | 320pp | 9781472975423 | £24.99

 eBook | 224pp | 9781472975409 | £22.49

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Rhiannon Challenger

Community Engagement Manager and Editor at Nexus Education. BA Hons English Literature.

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