When it comes to making a flying start in any leadership role, the first three months is a crucial timeframe.
It is no different for headteachers. Those first days are when leaders lay the bedrock for the future as well as swiftly make decisions for early success.
Christine Mitchell has recently experienced the challenge of those first days in headship. She has just completed her first year as a headteacher at Chadwick High, a 90-pupil secondary pupil referral unit and medical school in Lancaster.
After a career working as a mainstream school teacher and head of department, Christine felt that she had progressed as far as she could and headship called.
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