The First 100 Days: A New Headteacher's Toolkit

A twenty-page guide for anyone stepping into their first headship, built from ten years in executive school leadership.

What is inside:

• What to read and who to meet in the weeks before you start
• The predecessor conversation, and the four questions worth asking
• Your first words to staff, and a day-by-day shape for week one
• The listening exercise in full: how to run it, and what to ask staff, governors, children and parents
• What to do with sixty pages of notes once you have them
• Change now, change later, never change: how to sort what you are considering
• Budget and data without drowning
• The set pieces: first staff meeting, first governors' meeting, first letter home
• Two printable templates: the 100-day plan on a page, and the listening record

Written by Max Kelly, Executive Headteacher of multiple primary schools and an Inclusion Quality Mark assessor working across the UK, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

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