Sadly our headteacher of our infant school has announced that they are leaving at the end of this term. As is often the case there is a lot of unease about who is going to take over - and of course many rumours are flying round.
One of which being that we would be sharing a headteacher with either the sister Junior school or with another infant school in the area (recently outstanding ofsted). This is upsetting many parents - the governors have not called a meeting with the parents to supress any of these rumours and teacher morale is low.
It has also been suggested that our head was encouraged to leave as the school had a 'satisfactory' ofsted last year - this though upsetting at the time did not discourage many parents from sending their children to the school as the reputation of the school being very good far exceeds that of an ofsted report. The HT was a main deciding factor in choosing a school for our DS - and we are all worried about what the implications of sharing a head with another school would mean.
I would really appreciate any positive/negative experiences that you've had or whether you've been in a similar situation - what has been the outcome - I hope then that we can pass on this information to our chair of governors along with our other concerns.
Many many thanks