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Diary of a Headteacher: The weight of the exam results...

As a headteacher, how much responsibility do you feel for your school's examination results. Our headteacher diarist discusses the unhelpful and unhealthy feelings that many school leaders feel on results day

I am writing this diary entry sat at my desk, in my office at school, with all sorts of madness occurring around me. We have embarked on a huge IT project over the summer, recabling the entire school computer network and the place looks like a bomb has hit it.

Simultaneously we have just hired a new set of cleaning contractors who seemed very keen to impress on their first week.

They appear to have sent in a SWAT team of cleaners who are manically cleaning up after the recabling contractors as quickly as they are producing the significant quantities of dust and mess.

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