Time flies when you’re having fun, but it goes even quicker when you’re recovering from COVID-19, battling shrinking school budgets and trying your level best to implement the biggest set of educational reforms in over half a century.
Keeping all the plates spinning (the idioms will stop soon, I promise) has never been so difficult, as evidenced by ongoing trade disputes.
Yet here we are, and the show must go on.
Ahead of this week’s national headteacher conference, recently revived after a brief pandemic-induced hiatus, I thought it an opportune moment to pause and reflect on what has or hasn’t been achieved in the year since school leaders across Wales last gathered around their computer screens for a meeting with the minister.
