Creating the Effective Primary School (Paperback)

This handbook is intended to help anyone working in or leading primary schools to rise to the challenge of making their school more effective. Comprehensive and straightforward, the book shows how a school can be truly effective. Roger Smith demonstrates how those with a role to play in the school can understand what to do to make it effective, and how to go about achieving it. "Creating the Effective Primary School" explores organisation, leadership and management, with guidance and tips on improving skills in these areas. It also looks at how to "sell" your school successfully, in a way that encourages and develops excellence in teaching and learning.;The chapters focus on making excellence in school easier to achieve, with key topics including: organising to achieve a positive school ethos; building successful teams and relationships; raising pupils' achievement; successful teaching and effective classroom management; performance management; stress and time management; accountability and the inspection process. Based on the author's wide experience and on the best practices demanded by the DfES and Ofstead, this book should be a valuable handbook for headteachers, deputies and senior teachers, as well as for governors.