When you take up your first headship there are two things that I guarantee will happen to you.
First, the weight and the enormity of the role, the burden of accountability and level of responsibility that sits at your door will be greater than you expected. You can be a long-serving deputy, even an acting headteacher for a period of time and think you might know what this feels like, but you don’t.
Not until you close your office door, sit in your chair and reflect on the fact that you are responsible for all the students in your school, all the teachers and support staff who you lead, and carry all the expectations of families in the community who look at you as the focal point of the organisation.
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