Jeremy Hannay, Headteacher, Three Bridges Primary School - Doing away with the Ofsted style of management: how to reduce high stakes accountability and increase teacher autonomy

Aug 11, 2019

In this episode, Jeremy Hannay, Headteacher of Three Bridges Primary School in west London, shares his thoughts on

• How a trip to see the London 2012 Olympics gave him his life’s mission
• The best bits of the UK and Canadian education systems
• How teacher recruitment and retention crisie could become a thing of the past in every school
• The false dichotomy between high performance and happiness that exists in schools
• What performance management has been replaced with at Three Bridges
• How they have fostered the autonomy and trust that has been key to the success at the school
• The curriculum programmes they run and how they have adapted them to suit their context
• The importance of ‘building cathedrals’ rather than ‘cutting stone’.
• How co-construction can make accountability redundant
• The biggest challenges Three Bridge has had to overcome and what still stands in their way
• The conflict interests he sees between Ofsted’s two main functions and how that compares to the Canadian system
• How they have designed their programs of professional development
• The multi academy trusts he holds in the highest regard
• The book that has given him his mission and what that mission is
• How Three Bridges is supporting other schools
• The national and international trips he has made to find best practice
• How he uses the phrase “Teach me everything” along with Twitter to meet the needs of his school
• How he’s using external support to help his team drill down into their own strengths and weaknesses
• The question he wants every headteacher to ask themselves and why
• What he thinks the future of education will look like and why he is optimistic about it

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