Changes

Following on from that last post, I've always timed changes and developments in school so that there's something fresh to come back to every term.  The major development works, of course and by necessity, take place in the summer... but I like staff and children to be able to come back to changes at Easter... and perhaps some freshly painted toilets and classrooms after Christmas.  Successful institutions are dynamic.  There's no standstill, no tolerance of standstill.  Changes beget other changes.  Staff become used to development, come to expect it, enjoy it... development becomes an expectation of staff.  A development culture is born and becomes embedded.  Children enjoy development.  They recognise that it is done for them.  They develop a lower tolerance threshold for those things that aren't good enough and have the confidence to express their views... so we're into a self-sustaining system of heightening expectations...  the job is to keep running, keep trying to stay one step ahead in the expectations race... What could be better.