What's going on at Nottingham High School?

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The headmaster, Kevin Fear, has resigned / been pushed out. Does anyone have any info?

DH is an on ON and has made donations to help the bursary fund. He was furious to learn that nearly 5% of the school's gross revenue now goes towards paying the SLT's salaries.

Ah so there is the reason for your thread.

Maybe stop the gossiping. It isn’t a good look

Maybe he was looking for an excuse to go. I've only worked with one person who left after a blazing row, which everyone could hear. He had a good job and very good wage (I ran payroll so do know that and he was the highest paid member of staff) but his relationship with the boss had been getting difficult, bit of two grumpy old men annoying each other. So one day a fairly normal business issue suddenly turned into raised voices and he then stormed out of the office, collected his stuff and never came back.

If this Head had been earning that sort of money for a while he probably has plenty stashed away and with spring here maybe he fancied finishing now.

Maybe but it reflects badly on him and the school. Most would stick it out.

I’m confused: why did you start a thread asking what was going on if you knew what was going on?

I was thinking the exact same thing!

Also didn’t realise OP knew the answer. Strange. Are any private schools not dodgy at all?!

I am also an ON. When I looked on the charities website & saw that salary, noting also the massive gap between £380k and the next highest, I was similarly dismayed. I have stopped my donations.

The OP is clearly a massive gossip and trying to shit stir. There’s nothing “dodgy” it’s a falling out in the management team and since he was going anyway he has gone early.

The salary is of course incredibly high, particularly for the area however it’s perfectly legitimate if approved by the governors

When I first posted I was unaware of the reason for KF's sudden departure. KF's salary was integral to the school's press leak.

I’ve read the statement on Instagram: those famous ‘personal reasons.’

ON??

Why shouldn’t he have a ball? 25 years is a good amount of time. I don’t see how his salary has got anything to do with wanting an event to be planned for his retirement.

He's behaved like a petulant child. Spitting his dummy out because the party he wanted wasn't organised exactly as he wanted. The governors have also behaved terribly by not communicating openly & honestly.
It is a terrible example to the students of the school.

I'm quite sure the OP knew nothing of the detail 48 hours ago.
The extent of what really happened & the awful behaviour of KH & governors is only just emerging.

That's why you blow it up to be an argument, you blame it on being upset by the argument because you can't just walk out.

And one of the governors is the new head… couldn’t make it up - teacher strikes ahead on pensions costs they haven’t dealt with - going to end badly…

Mr Spedding can use it as the topic of his first whole school assembly- “How Not To Behave When You Are Disappointed.”

Are you suggesting teachers are going to strike at Nottingham High School over their pensions?

Well those schools who have been slow to deal with the issue have seen strikes, see Loughborough (heads fall like pins), GDST, and recently Warwick. NHS seem to have buried head in sand, complacently in KF’s last few years, then appointed one of their own conveniently and scandalously re governance as new head likely on £200k+ salary. Virtually no surplus delivered in two years before impact of VAT, national insurance, Business Rates and pensions….

Loughborough & the GDST all experienced strikes as they took their schools out of TPS. Nottingham High School remains in TPS & even more importantly, unless someone wants to tell me otherwise, the school does not engage with the unions. Of course, NHS teachers can belong to a union but there is no union engagement in terms of pay etc. Consequently, the school is unlikely to face strikes.

Separately, that’s quite a post suggesting corruption in terms of the appointment of the new Head. Am sure the Acting Head would be interested in any evidence you have on that front.

Convenient appointment (potentially scandalously only relative to ‘normal’ governance practices, governors clearly determined the risk, or potential perceived risk, to be tolerable) no suggestion of corruption. But a risky appointment on top of an unexpectedly swift exit and expunging of decades of leadership from websites can’t be helpful. Good luck to them all, and hopefully the finances can be balanced whether or not pensions/pay become tricky and parents can afford the continued fee rises in years to come.

Mr Fear left speedily after he sent a truly laughable email express his personal upset over a ball not happening. He hasn’t been expunged, he simply imploded and left. That is it.

The finances don’t need to be balanced, they are fine. The school has been well run and there was never an excessive surplus. Nor should there have been. As a charity, the additional money was put back into the school.

The new head is coming from Wellingborough. He is inheriting a good school whose previous head had a tantrum. There is literally nothing to see here once you grasp this. Everything else is speculation without any evidence - “risky appointment”, “governors clearly determined” etc. where is your proof?

My mind is boggling about what he wanted at this ball to total 80k+ - Sabrina Carpenter as the entertainment, Sat Bains catering, fireworks and drone show..?

He sounds an absolute berk - and an overpaid paid one at that - mind you it used to boil my piss when you used to get Chris woodhead ex chief inspector of schools up there pontificating about standards etc - when as my H told me , he had to leave his school rather abruptly Asa teacher due to a relationship with a student .my H was in school there at the time