Primary headteachers - what do they do all day?

[KBear]

Are they snowed under with paper work and wrapped up in red tape? Anyone know one they can ask?

I'm intrigued as to why we never see the headteacher in the playground at going in or going home time.

I've been in school helping organise the Christmas fair two days a week for the past month and I've NEVER seen her. I hear the receptionist saying she's in meetings quite often but I just wondered what the job entails these days.

I know she takes assembly every day but do headteachers have much to do with teaching anymore?

What do they do all day?

i have a lot to dow tiht our head
she manages hte fincane
she asses teachers
she does the school improvement plan
she does the Schools self evaluation fom
she lieases wiht other schools
she talks to parents
she organises training
she runs whol school intitatives
she does assemblies

adn so son

our headteacher is in the play ground every morning and at the school gates chucking parenst of the zigzags at the end of the school day come rain or shine.

I respect the head at DS's school. She is in the playground sometimes in the morning, and at assembly, she covers sometimes for sick teachers. she knows all the children very quickly (not that difficult in a one class intake) but she also knows DD who is 2 and the other younger siblings who turn up from time to time.

i woudl argue using hte head fo cover time is a Waste of Money

Apparently OFSTED are now saying that heads should come form business...

only cos they can't get anyone to do the job from the teaching staff any more though.
be good and cheaper? to have finance manager to assist head perhaps. I bet once they start getting people in from outside schools they'll up the pay/perks considerably

As a teacher I do know what they do but just had a thought that I don't actually know what the head of dd's school looks like

DS's Head is in the playground in the mornings, knows all the individual kids names, and their little siblings who toddle along. Urging latecpmers to hurry up and pouncing on their parents as they leave, to have a word out of earshot of the children. Otherwise I see her in her office, head down - or she is at lots of evening meeetings. Tonight she was at the school disco til long after 8pm, helping, having a dance, beetling over to the DJ at the first hint of unsavoury lyrics...