One of the first items that landed on my desk following my return after the holidays was a report setting out the results of a survey of parents that had been undertaken during the summer term.
On receiving this report, and before I even looked at its contents, my immediate reaction was somewhat negative and defensive. I instinctively assumed that the survey’s findings would not make for happy reading and I silently cursed whoever it was who had thought that (another) survey was a good idea.
After putting the report swiftly into the “deal with later” pile and doing some of those other vital tasks that await a headteacher at the start of a new school year (such as watering some dead plants, catching up with what colleagues had been up to over the summer), I eventually made myself a cup of tea and sat down to read the report.
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