The Headteacher Update Podcast
The Headteacher Update Podcast is dedicated to supporting best practice in the primary school – with practical advice, discussion and tips for teachers and school leaders across a range of topics relevant to your daily practice
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting pupil mental health & wellbeing
05/01/2024
Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting pupil mental health & wellbeing
In this episode we discuss a range of ideas and strategies for how primary schools can support the good mental health and wellbeing of their pupils. We chat to three guests who work in three different schools. We hear their tenets of good practice when it comes to supporting good pupil wellbeing in school before discussing what wellbeing challenges they are seeing on the ground and at the chalkface in their schools. We delve into some of the work taking place in our guests’ three schools and hear anonymised case studies of successful interventions they have had with pupils who have struggled. We talk extensively about their approaches to mental health and wellbeing education – within PSHE but also more generally across the curriculum and in the classroom with lots of ideas big and small. We look in particular at what we can do to support our pupils, including while they are waiting for CAMHS referrals, and we discuss what support we can access via other outside agencies. Elsewhere, we discuss how we can build positive relationships with pupils and families so that we can better recognise the warning signs of emerging problems and intervene quickly.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Protecting headteacher wellbeing during Ofsted inspection
04/03/2024
Headteacher Update Podcast: Protecting headteacher wellbeing during Ofsted inspection
In this episode we discuss tips, ideas, and strategies for protecting the wellbeing of headteachers – and other school staff – during Ofsted inspections. Our guest is Paul K Ainsworth, who has held director of school improvement roles in four multi-academy trusts in the last nine years and in that time has experienced more than 40 Ofsted inspections. We get Paul’s practical insights – both small ideas and more substantial advice – about how we can protect our mental health and wellbeing, and that of our school team, during inspection. We get lots of tips for reducing and managing anxiety and hear useful anecdotes from Paul’s experience of inspection. We hear about what inspection has been like this year in light of changes brought in after the suicide of headteacher Ruth Perry. Ofsted has brought in a number of reforms, including new complaints procedures, mental health training for inspectors and better support – we find out what this looks like on the ground and ask what headteachers can expect to see when they get inspected in 2024. Paul offers insights for how we can prepare for inspection in such a way that will build resilience and confidence, including how best to prepare for the pre-inspection phone call. Other topics include where headteachers can turn to for support during inspection, how to challenge inspectors effectively, and how to handle the emotional rollercoaster and exhausting nature of inspection.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting Pupil Premium and disadvantaged children
03/06/2024
Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting Pupil Premium and disadvantaged children
In this episode, three schools talk about the impact of the cost of living crisis and their work to support Pupil Premium and disadvantaged pupils. Our guests identify their key tenets of effective Pupil Premium practice and talk about specific approaches they are using in their schools. We delve into a range of strategies and ideas for addressing the consequences of poverty in the primary school, including tips for success and lessons learned. We hear about what is happening on the ground in our guests’ schools and the particular impacts they are seeing of the cost of living crisis and increasing levels of poverty. We look at different aspects of school life through the lens of poverty, including the day-to-day running of the school, curriculum design, wider school systems, and more. We discuss how to track Pupil Premium interventions and strategies, how to evaluate our spending, and the key ingredients of an effective, high-impact Pupil Premium Strategy. Other topics under discussion include pupil voice, raising aspiration, attendance, quality first teaching and more.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective use of teaching assistants in the classroom
02/07/2024
Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective use of teaching assistants in the classroom
This episode looks at the effective deployment of our teaching assistants in the primary school classroom, offering advice for whole-school practice and individual teaching and lessons. We ask how teaching assistants can enhance pupils’ outcomes and support inclusion and how teachers and teaching assistants can communicate and work together effectively. We discuss school systems and structures that can support their effective deployment. And we discuss the training and development that must be in place for our teaching assistants. We consider how teaching assistants should and – vitally – should not be deployed, both in the classroom and when leading interventions. We look at the role of school leaders in establishing the appropriate systems, structures and working practices that ensure consistent and effective deployment. We also consider the merits of the DfE-funded Teaching Assistant Deployment Review Guide and consider other useful resources, including the Teaching Assistant Standards, the EEF teaching assistant research evidence and the MITA (maximising the impact of teaching of assistants) project. And amid a cost of living crisis when many other jobs offer better remuneration, we discuss the recruitment and retention of teaching assistants.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Improving teaching with instructional coaching
01/10/2024
Headteacher Update Podcast: Improving teaching with instructional coaching
This episode looks at using instructional coaching as part of your school’s approach to staff CPD and improving teaching and learning. Three experts discuss what instructional is and its core principles. We ask how we can best launch and develop this approach in our schools and how it can be used to enhance teachers’ knowledge and understanding of pedagogy while complementing whole-school CPD. We consider the discrete stages of instructional coaching and also hear case studies and examples from our guests of where instructional coaching approaches have worked well practice. The podcast touches upon the use of deliberate practice as part of teacher development and we also discuss when instructional coaching should not be used in the school context. Finally, we look at how instructional coaching should be separate to line management, quality assurance and performance management.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting pupils who use English as an additional language
12/06/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting pupils who use English as an additional language
This episode looks at how primary schools can best support the education and development of pupils who use English as an additional language (EAL), including refugee children. The podcast features three experts and opens with each guest offering their three tenets of best practice for EAL. We discuss what primary school leaders can do to ensure effective whole-school provision for EAL pupils, including effective teaching and learning approaches. We talk specifically about how to support refugee and asylum-seeking pupils given the arrival in recent years of children from Afghanistan, Ukraine and elsewhere. The podcast discusses EAL pupils’ English language development, including what our panellists think about the use of phonics versus language immersion techniques? And how can we best assess early levels of English fluency and use assessment in general to understand progress? And we also tackle the challenge of integrating mid-year arrivals (and their families) into the school and school life, especially in years 2 and 6 when SATs are looming – how can we best support pupils while also preparing them urgently for assessments. The podcast includes expertise from The Bell Foundation and signposts to a number of free resources to support the work of schools.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Phonics and early reading
11/01/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Phonics and early reading
This episode looks at best practice for delivering phonics programmes and teaching early reading in the primary school. Two experts discuss how phonics supports early reading and what the high-quality teaching of early reading looks like in practice. We ask what a high-quality phonics programme should offer schools and how we can ensure maximum impact with the scheme we are using. How can we move pupils from learning to read to reading to learn and how can we instil and inspire a love of reading in our pupils to last a lifetime? Elsewhere, we ask what Ofsted inspectors look for when they judge reading and phonics teaching in primary schools and dissect what an ambitious and enriching reading curriculum looks like. Finally, we discuss how we can engage parents in the process of phonics and early reading and what kind of advice we can offer to families to help them support reading at home.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: A school leadership survival guide
10/04/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: A school leadership survival guide
This episode offers crucial advice and lots of practical tips to help primary school headteachers – especially those new to post – to survive and thrive in the top job. We speak with three experienced school leaders who draw on their experiences and the ups and downs of their careers to offer their tips, ideas, and advice to others. We ask what our guests wish somebody had told them during the early months and years of their headships – a question that yields lots of quick wins as well as more in-depth, long-term advice. Our guests also describe some of the challenges they have faced during their years in the hot seat and the – often inspiring – lessons learned from how they managed these challenges and overcame them. We set out some specific wellbeing advice for school leaders and we discuss how we can ensure we survive and thrive both in the short-term – the early months of headship – but also the longer term. We look at how we can build capacity in our teams – a key aspect of long-term survival – as well as building relationships with colleagues, the benefits of coaching, and where we can turn if we need further support.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: How to have difficult leadership conversations
09/06/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: How to have difficult leadership conversations
This episode of the podcast considers how school leaders can successfully navigate difficult conversations that often need to take place with staff, parents and others. We discuss common types of “difficult conversation”, some general principles for how to handle these discussions, and how we can best prepare ourselves and others for these conversations. We discuss the crucial role that school and leadership culture plays in creating the right conditions and thus taking the sting out of these conversations. We look specifically at handling difficult conversations with parents, including how school leaders can display empathy and build trusting relationships that pre-empt potential complaints and what we can do should relationships break down or become toxic. We also look at conducting difficult conversations with staff, again offering general tips for handling these professionally and sensitively, especially for things like performance and capability. Ultimately, we ask how school leaders can deliver a message that is clear and results in a positive outcome, no matter who the difficult conversation is with.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Self-evaluation in the primary school
07/05/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Self-evaluation in the primary school
This episode discusses simple and effective ways of conducting high-impact self-evaluation in order to support and drive school improvement. Three primary school leaders discuss their tenets of best practice for effective self-evaluation. We talk about the self-evaluation cycle, what it should look like, and how it fits into the wider process of school improvement. The panel includes a practising Ofsted inspector and we discuss Ofsted’s view on self-evaluation and how we can meet Ofsted expectations for our self-evaluation practice. We also discuss how the Ofsted inspection handbook and framework can be used as a way of RAG-rating progress and impact. Who should be involved in compiling the self-evaluation form (SEF) and what format should you use? Which formats are best? How can schools ensure the SEF is impact-focused rather than descriptive, and plays a key role in moving a school forward and raising standards? How do you ensure your SEF is a “live” document?
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Community out-reach & engaging with external agencies
06/07/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Community out-reach & engaging with external agencies
This episode advises primary schools on how to engage with the different statutory and non-statutory agencies working to support pupils, especially our most vulnerable. From local authorities, safeguarding, mental health and Early Help services, to community out-reach, mentoring support and more, we consider the range of bodies that schools need to engage with. We discuss how to create partnerships with positive reciprocal relationships and how to get the most out of key agencies at a time of stretched resources. We begin with some general principles for engaging with external agencies and ensuring our schools and pupils get what they need from them, before discussing some of the most common agencies schools can expect to, would want to, or must legally engage with. We talk about how primary schools might frame their Early Help offer to ensure it is effective and we discuss effective community out-reach, including how to access local funding streams and working with and engaging parents. Our three guests give us lots of examples of how they engage with these agencies and of their own community out-reach work and partnerships.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Evaluating and developing your school’s curriculum
05/03/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Evaluating and developing your school’s curriculum
This episode identifies key aspects of effective and purposeful curriculum assessment and evaluation in primary schools, including ensuring it is not onerous for teachers and meeting Ofsted expectations. The discussion involves three experienced primary school leaders who offer us their tenets of best practice for how we can ensure our curriculum is high-quality and working for our pupils. How do we achieve consistency across the primary school? How can we be sure that our curriculum caters for a broad ability range and also our most disadvantaged pupils? How do we monitor the effectiveness of teaching and its impact on learning and standards? How do we use pupil and parent voice? And how do we evidence that we know our curriculum is high-quality and effective, not least for Ofsted. Our guests have recent experience of Ofsted and as part of the discussion we touch upon meeting inspection curriculum expectations. How do we use what we learn when assessing our curriculum to identify and define next steps for improvement and development? And finally, how is attainment and progress measured and monitored and how are staff expected to record, upload and review data?
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Headteacher Update Podcast: School leadership in difficult circumstances
04/05/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: School leadership in difficult circumstances
This episode discusses how to be an effective school leader in challenging and difficult circumstances – both the expected and the unexpected. Our experts consider how to lead and manage these situations, sharing their tenets of effective leadership under pressure, their own experiences, and lessons learnt. We ask how leaders stay calm, decisive, and people-centred when times are tough. We also look at the particular challenge of handling a negative Ofsted inspection outcome. We consider specific examples of challenging circumstances and the different types of challenges we may face as a school leader, handling angry parents, a death in your school community, a local incident, a serious safeguarding issue, staffing problems, Ofsted and others. We try to outline a general principles of handling these situations and discuss a step-by-step guide for how to respond. We discuss in particular Ofsted – perhaps the most common “challenging circumstance” – and how leaders can handle a negative outcome and the challenge of turning a school around.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Outdoor learning
03/01/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Outdoor learning
This episode is packed full of advice, ideas, and tips for delivering effective and impactful outdoor learning in the primary school. Our expert panel kick off by discussing nine tenets of best practice in delivering outdoor and nature-based learning in schools. We also talk about the benefits that outdoor learning can bring, including the skills it can help pupils to develop. With lots of ideas for activities and projects, we discuss how outdoor or nature-based learning can be set up in urban school settings or in schools with restricted space. We discuss ideas and tips for making outdoor learning work when it’s cold, wet, windy too. Also, how can outdoor learning be used to break-down inequality and disadvantage and offer a more inclusive education? And how can it support pupil mental health and wellbeing? Finally, we discuss how we can best integrate and plan outdoor learning into the wider curriculum.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Coaching & mentoring for school staff
02/01/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Coaching & mentoring for school staff
This episode focuses on the use of coaching and mentoring approaches to support the development of teaching staff in schools. Our experts discuss the differences between coaching and mentoring, with some examples of what each approach entails and sets out to achieve, as well as what they look like in practice. We ask how headteachers can get started with introducing coaching or mentoring as part of CPD and professional learning for staff in their school. We discuss the different models, important principles to keep in mind, tips and insights for how they can be applied, and ideas for coaching and mentoring conversations and activities. We also consider how coaching and mentoring can develop your school’s leadership capacity, transform systems across the school, and create a resilient workforce. And we touch upon using coaching and mentoring to support pupils too.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Improving primary school attendance
01/11/2023
Headteacher Update Podcast: Improving primary school attendance
This episode looks at how primary schools can boost pupil attendance, including tackling persistent absenteeism and supporting families. Three experts discuss the current trends and challenges in primary school attendance, including the legacy of Covid. We identify and discuss the main barriers to attendance – including anxiety, school avoidance, SEMH needs, problems with punctuality, poverty and school uniform – and offer strategies and tips for how they can best be overcome, including ideas for positive interventions. We touch on Ofsted’s expectations and attitudes around attendance and discuss how to engage with parents and carers, including home visits. How can we tackle persistent absences? What is the role of school procedures and policies, as well as tracking, monitoring and analysing attendance data? We discuss how we can put caring and kindess at the heart of attendance work and how can we celebrate good attendance – are rewards the right way to go?
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective middle leadership
12/07/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective middle leadership
This podcast considers what effective middle leadership looks like in the primary school, including subject leadership, handling Ofsted's subject deep dives, and strategic middle leadership. Our experts consider the traits of effective middle leaders and how we can support our staff to develop these skills. We focus especially on subject leadership, including how middle leaders can ensure they are ready for Ofsted subject deep dives and how schools can support and empower subject leaders. We ask what strategic middle leadership looks like and how it can be developed, with examples of good practices and initiatives. And we discuss supporting middle leaders to have those difficult conversations, give purposeful feedback, and navitgate challenging situations.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Managing school budgets and finance
11/02/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Managing school budgets and finance
This episode considers how primary schools can balance their budgets, raise funds, and make the most of limited financial resources. Two school finance experts discuss tips, ideas, and advice, including tenets of best practice in optimising your school’s budget and for effective financial management. We discuss challenges including rising energy and National Insurance costs, and falling pupil rolls. We also offer a range of ideas for reducing expenditure and generating income. We consider areas where schools can work together to achieve economies of scale and hold suppliers to account, and how school improvement and School Development Plans link to budgeting.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective appraisal & performance management
10/05/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Effective appraisal & performance management
This podcast discusses effective appraisal and performance management practice in primary schools. Three experienced school leaders discuss principles of effective appraisal systems, including elements of a successful appraisal and tips for setting objectives. How can we place CPD at the heart of performance management and make the process collegiate/collaborative? How can we identify a teacher’s strengths? What can we do if a teacher is underperforming, especially to support new teachers? Other topics include building trust, preparing for appraisals, school culture, getting feedback right, creating the conditions for professional learning, and how headteachers can demonstrate impact for their own appraisals.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: School inspection & Ofsted
09/07/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: School inspection & Ofsted
This episode tackles Ofsted inspections, offering practical advice for primary schools to help you thrive when the inspectors call. Two experienced headteachers offer tips and ideas, big and small, for handling Ofsted from start to finish. We tackle subject deep dives, explaining how they are working in practice and how we can prepare without adding to workload, including tips for subject/middle leaders. We discuss: Handling the emotions/pressure of inspection as a school leader, tactics for if things go wrong, the 90-minute phone call, things to prepare in advance, supporting colleagues & protecting staff wellbeing, useful tips and anecdotes.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Tackling the consequences of poverty
07/06/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Tackling the consequences of poverty
This episode considers the consequences that poverty has for children and their education and offers practical ideas for how primary schools can address these. We look at the national picture of child poverty, causes and impact, and the barriers it creates to education and school. Our experts offer key principles for how we can work to counteract the impact of disadvantage in schools and a wealth of practical ideas – large and small – for supporting pupils. We discuss family engagement, the curriculum, how the Pupil Premium can be used, boosting Pupil Premium registration, and pitfalls to avoid when allocating this funding.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Creating parent-friendly schools
06/15/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Creating parent-friendly schools
This episode considers effective parent/carer engagement and asks how we can create parent-friendly schools. Our experts offer principles for effective parental engagement and discuss how schools can get parents/carers on board, how we can build positive relationships, and tips for headteachers new in post. We talk school gates, bacon sandwiches, and ideas for how we can make our schools more “parent-friendly”. There are tips for getting parents to show an interest in learning at home and for handling difficult conversations and difficult parents. Other topics include parent conferences, homework, websites, home communication, and working with the PTA.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Year 6 to 7 transition
06/01/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Year 6 to 7 transition
This episode looks at supporting pupils as they make the transition from primary to secondary school. We chat with two secondary schools and two feeder primaries about common transition challenges and solutions. We look at when transition work should begin, what the process looks like, engaging with parents, identifying pupils who may struggle, and supporting vulnerable pupils. We discuss tried and tested ideas for transition interventions, activities and taster days. Other topics include curriculum consistency, academic support, year 7 transition activities, open evenings, year 7 pupil ambassadors working with year 6 pupils, and the impact of Covid on transition.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting vulnerable pupils: Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences
05/04/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Supporting vulnerable pupils: Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences
This episode takes a practical look at how primary schools can support vulnerable pupils, including looked after children and those living with trauma and adverse childhood experiences. We ask what form ACEs and trauma can take, what impact they have, and what being a trauma-informed school involves. We consider therapeutic approaches and how to create calming classroom environments. We discuss: making behaviour management more effective and less reactive; the common mistakes schools make and how can we avoid them; responding to emotionally based school-based avoidance; and helping vulnerable children to successfully manage their emotions at key times of the day.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Reading and literacy across the primary school
04/06/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Reading and literacy across the primary school
What is the best way to teach pupils to read and how can teachers ensure every child leaves primary school a fluent reader? This episode considers the components of effective whole-school reading (and literacy) strategies. The podcast is packed with teaching tips and techniques as well as whole-school ideas to engage pupils and boost reading skills. We discuss: early years & early reading work, reading aloud, improving fluency, using the school library, fostering reading for pleasure, the kinds of books that will spark a love of reading for life, the DfE's 2021 Reading Framework, common challenges, and engaging reluctant readers.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Getting school governance right
03/02/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Getting school governance right
This episode considers what outstanding governance looks like in the primary school, how to be a great governor, and how school leaders and governors can work together effectively. We ask how headteachers can foster strong, professional relationships with governors, and vice-versa. We advise new headteachers how they might begin to build working relationships with governors, including questions to ask during your first meeting, and we advise governors how to build relationships with new heads. We consider governor workload, how heads can handle 'difficult' governors, what we can do when the relationship breaks down, and what lessons Covid has taught us.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Keeping children safe: Effective safeguarding in schools (part 2)
02/16/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Keeping children safe: Effective safeguarding in schools (part 2)
This two-part episode offers advice and tips for good safeguarding practice and how we can keep children safe. In part two, we chat to three colleagues working in primary schools about their safeguarding work, examples of best practice, and useful ideas. They discuss current trends, effective safeguarding principles, and how to ensure a culture of “it could happen here”. Themes include SEND, Covid, spotting the patterns, effective communication, empowering staff to question narratives, supporting volunteer staff, peer-on-peer abuse, online safety, attendance, domestic abuse, and referring to social care. Part 1 featuring safeguarding expert Elizabeth Rose is still available via
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Keeping children safe: Effective safeguarding in schools (part 1)
02/02/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Keeping children safe: Effective safeguarding in schools (part 1)
This two-part episode offers advice/tips for good safeguarding practice in schools. In part one, safeguarding expert Elizabeth Rose speaks about current safeguarding trends and how schools can respond. Themes include the consequences of Covid-19 for safeguarding, safety of children outside school, the growing trend of online safety challenges at primary level – including peer-on-peer incidents, social media, cyberbullying, online abuse & self-generated images, and online gaming. Elizabeth advises on making successful referrals, applying thresholds of need, and information-sharing. Other topics include Early Help, parental communication, pupil voice, and staff training. Don't miss part two of this podcast on February 16.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: Leading School Improvement & Self-Evaluation
01/05/2022
Headteacher Update Podcast: Leading School Improvement & Self-Evaluation
This episode asks what great school improvement processes look like and how to ensure self-evaluation is effective. We discuss key traits of effective school improvement, including change management, culture & ethos. We ask what a cycle of improvement looks like & how heads new in post might begin this work, including building relationships, winning hearts & minds, listening to & involving stakeholders. We discuss key barriers, how we can overcome them & how we can ensure that improvement is maintained.
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Headteacher Update Podcast: The Future of Digital Learning in Schools
12/01/2021
Headteacher Update Podcast: The Future of Digital Learning in Schools
This episode looks at how digital learning in schools is evolving in the wake of the pandemic & what it will look like in the months to come. We discuss lessons learnt from Covid and where we go next, including ideas for edtech practices that free-up teachers to teach (pedagogy, homework, assessment, blended learning, CPD & more). We also look at what we can do to close the digital divide. This podcast has been produced with Pearson & comes with a free guide to digital learning: https://bit.ly/htu-DL
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