Ormiston Denes Academy (ODA) is an oversubscribed coastal academy in Lowestoft. It faces all the challenges of a catchment area of high deprivation and declining employment.
When I set out on my journey with ODA in April 2014 our academy had a principal not long in post. I was also relatively new to the school, entering a largely vocational science department in need of curriculum change to better serve its pupils.
The principal had just nominated me for the Teaching Leaders Fellows programme, much to the dismay of my new Springer Spaniel puppy who seemed to sense, with more than 350 hours of CPD over the two-year programme, that I would be spending less time with him!
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