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  • Published 12/12/23

    Meet our leaders: Helen Palmer

    Helen Palmer, Headteacher at Queensbury Academy in Dunstable, recently celebrated her one-year anniversary at the school after taking up the post part way through the school year in November 2022. Here she gives us her reflections on the year that’s passed and what’s on the horizon for Queensbury.

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  • Published 09/03/23

    Right support? Right place? Right time? A SENCo’s view of the government’s plans for SEND and alternative provision

    Last week saw the long-awaited publication of the government’s plan to reform SEND and alternative provision, The SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement Plan: Right Support, Right Place, Right Time. Christina Horton, SENCo and senior leader at Anthem’s Mount Street Academy, delivers her verdict…

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  • Published 20/02/23

    Instructional coaching: “This isn't a package of training; this is a culture and an ethos that you want in your school.”

    There’s lots of advice out there on how to implement instructional coaching in secondary schools, but what about primary? Vicki Briody, shares her key lessons learned from leading instructional coaching at Abacus Belsize Primary School and working with 11 other primary schools across our Trust.

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  • Published 17/11/22

    Meet our leaders: Angela Anterkyi

    Angela Anterkyi became Headteacher at Gladstone Park Primary School in 2014, soon after it became an academy. Though daunted by this at first, she says being part of the Trust has helped both her, and the school, go from strength to strength.

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  • Published 06/10/22

    Meet our leaders: Simon Morley

    In September 2017, Simon Morley joined Anthem as Headteacher at Boston West Academy. He describes his five-year journey of headship at the school as exhilarating, with the school and Trust being inextricably intertwined.

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