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The ONLY weekly voice for secondary education Issue 232 • November 26 2009 Price £1.00
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Don’t miss our NQT
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SecEd has once again teamed
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Coaching advice
Coaching can be an effective
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Inspiring: Winning PA Julia Marks with her head, Tim Mitchell. All 30 finalists are also pictured (inset)
We look at how it should be
structured and the secrets to
success
Page 12
The dyslexic brain
Battle to save school
Dyslexic author Al Campbell
looks at how the dyslexic
brain learns and how
teachers can help
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In July, the school’s future was to the future of her school has International School Award at the “She is a very worthy winner of
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secured after the council withdrew earned her the top prize at the 2009 British Council – the award’s spon- this year’s gold award, and a fine
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the threat of closure. According to Mr SecEd Headteacher’s PA of the sors. ambassador for PAs up and down the
emailed out every week. When the local authority Mitchell, this was more to do with Year Awards, which took place at SecEd editor, Pete Henshaw, said country.”
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closure of Dayncourt School within the school establishment. London on Friday (November 20). dous drive, passion and vision”. Elisabeth Collard from Kingsbridge
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in Nottinghamshire, it was Julia He told us: “Julia kept the faith Thirty finalists gathered with He continued: “The standard of Community College in Devon,
Marks – PA to headteacher Tim – even when my own was on the their headteachers, where they were entries was unbelievably high, but while the bronze award was taken
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Mitchell – who stood strong, rallied wane. She poked, prodded, chivvied treated to a gala dinner before being Julia’s commitment to her school’s by Kim Annison from Alderman
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refused to let her colleagues throw and on track. She believed.” year’s champion, Pam Waters, and was what made her stand out from
in the towel. Julia’s amazing contribution John Rolfe, manager of the DCSF the crowd. • See pages 2 and 3 for details.
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