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Headteacher is leaving - staff not told before it was announced

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BambooTiger · 31/01/2025 21:21

If you work in a school and your headteacher announced they were leaving, would you expect as a member of staff to be told before students and parents or would you expect to find out at the same time as them?

Our headteacher has just announced that he is leaving in two weeks time and I found out from my niece in Y11 who attends the school that I work at.

The head emailed the announcement to students/parents/staff at the same time.

After I leave work on Friday I don’t check my work email until Sunday which is why my niece knew before me.

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treesandsun · 31/01/2025 22:50

Plantatreetoday · 31/01/2025 22:37

What’s MAT

Multi Academy Trust

PizzaPunk · 31/01/2025 23:00

viques · 31/01/2025 22:13

In my experience that is very unusual, if only because recruiting for a new head is a tricky process and most heads would want handover to be as smooth as possible so would want the governing body to start the process asap, and as soon as the advert is out the entire school community would be aware.

Ahh that's true.

It was different in the case I'm talking about because the infants and junior schools were amalgamating and the HT of the juniors was taking over the whole school, when the infants HT retired.

So fair point, ignore my pointless post 🤭🤣

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