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Educating Cardiff chance ‘priceless’, says head

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The new head of the school featured in television show Educating Cardiff has dismissed criticism that the programme could affect teacher recruitment.

Chris Norman, who took over recently at Willows High in Cardiff, said the programme offered a “priceless” opportunity to show what the pupils were like.

He said: “Everybody approached it with a bit of trepidation, we had no idea of the process. But I’ve got no complaints about the process whatsoever. They know what they are doing.”

He was proud of the schoolchildren who had taken part: “When you hear them talking in their face-to-face interviews, the things they come out with ... they make you blush with pride and this is what we see on a day-to-day basis. To be able to get that out there and show what our kids are like is priceless.”

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