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What our Headteachers say

Jo Shuter, Headteacher at Quintin Kynaston School

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"For me Future Leaders is not an education initiative, it is a means by which schools can

strengthen their Leadership Team and reduce educational disadvantage. My current Future

Leader has worked with the Leadership Team and delivered an effective strategy for using

data to improve results for every child. This will help my school raise the attainment of our

pupils. I wish I could have been involved in Future Leaders 30 plus years ago. I have found

involvement in Future Leaders has re-energised me in my 33 rd year of teaching. Future

Leaders has become a way of life at Barr Beacon Language College, rather than an

initiative."

Dame Maureen 'Mo' Brennan - Headteacher, Barr Beacon Language College,

Midlands 

“Having worked in education since 1975, I was first appointed as Headteacher in 1988. Ihave seen a lot of educational initiatives - I reflect on many of them and think why? But

there are very few that I look at and think “If only this had been around 25 years ago.” Future

Leaders is one of these initiatives. By calibrating opportunity, support and challenge it is

providing school leaders with a cadre of fledgling, but fully formed potential Headteachers for

the future. I just wish it had been around back in the early 1980 ’s. If it had I’d have been one

of the first applicants.” 

Kathy August, Strategic Principal, Manchester Academy, North West 

“As an outstanding school we are always striving to innovate and transform learning. The

most significant contribution to outstanding teaching and learning is outstanding leadership.

A school which is as challenging as ours needs young, dynamic, enthusiastic and able

leaders, who can take forward our vision and inspire teachers and learners alike.

I now have three Future Leaders within our SLT, one Deputy Headteacher and two Assistant

Headteachers. They have made significant contributions through their excellent classroom

practice, effective line management and their part in collegial decision making around

school improvement. They have been a key driver in maintaining our outstanding status.

We love them!!” 

Jo Shuter, Headteacher, Quintin Kynaston School, London 

“Andrew was our first Future Leader – and what a difference he made to our school! He

arrived at the same time as we started our new curriculum, which included a suspended

timetable day every other Friday. We had the idea before Andrew came – but he made it

work. He took on the challenge of planning and implementing the days, negotiating with

(sometimes reluctant) staff, booking outside speakers and course providers, managing the

budget … everything. That the days are a huge success is a tribute to Andrew's leadership

skills, and I hope and expect that the experiences he gained with us will speed him on his

way to headship.” 

Margaret Wheeler, Headteacher, Forest Gate Community School, London  

“Future Leaders is a fantastic programme, to the extent that we currently have our

4th consecutive resident here at Hampstead School. The high calibre of all our Future

Leader residents is testimony to the organisation’s commitment to recruit the best, and to

the intense ongoing training they receive. It is the powerful combination of moral imperative,

lucid values-driven motivation and a clear know-how on how to deliver those values on the

ground that means that every Future Leader resident has left a tangible, lasting legacy.”

Jacques Szemalikowski, Headteacher, Hampstead School, London Borough of

Camden, London 

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“As a new Headteacher I have been delighted by the opportunity to add capacity to my

Senior Leadership Team by appointing a Future Leader. My previous experience of working

with two exceptional Future Leaders, both of whom were appointed to substantive roles

within the first twelve months, gave me confidence that placing a Future Leader would be

supportive in actioning my vision. The people I have had the privilege of working with on

Future Leaders have all been ‘Current Leaders’ capable of delivering with immediate impact

from day one. The educational philosophy at the core of the Future Leaders mission

supports the drive for whole school improvement and the aim of providing an education that

transforms individual life chances for all. On a personal note, I have no doubt that my

involvement as an in-school mentor and exposure to the Future Leaders way undoubtedly

aided my own accelerated development to Headship.” 

Matthew Bowler, Headteacher, Longdendale Community Language College, North

West 

“This is our first year of active involvement in the Future Leaders programme and we are

deeply impressed with the selection process and high quality of our Future Leader. The

philosophy of early identification of potential talent and a year- long residency followed by

further support is an ideal programme for developing the future leaders of challenging

schools.

Our Future Leader has strengthened our Leadership Team and made a significant

contribution to staff development and the future development of our school. I am particularly

impressed with the high level of commitment, energy and enthusiasm our Future Leader and

the overall programme has brought to our school.

We hope our relationship with the Future Leaders programme will be a long and fruitful one. ” 

John Cornally, Headteacher, Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, North West 

“The Future Leaders programme is an excellent strategy for developing young leaders who

have a huge amount of potential but limited experience. By placing them in a school in a

challenging or disadvantaged area they are given a first-hand taste of what the leaders of

such schools face, and they blossom. It is a win-win situation. The young teacher gains, in

one year, the experience necessary to then join a leadership team and further their career,

and the school’s senior team is enhanced and strengthened by their enthusiasm and skills

whilst they are on placement. We have an outstanding Assistant Principal here who came

through the Future Leader programme. We currently also have an excellent Future Leader

on placement who, in a few weeks, has already shown great skill and professionalism. I’m

also delighted that the Future Leader who had his placement here last year is going on to a

very promising career elsewhere.

I cannot recommend Future Leaders highly enough.” 

Rachel Kidd, Principal, Dixons Allerton Academy, Yorkshire and Humberside 

“Currently we are in the most exciting phase of our development, the creation and

implementation of a new and radical model of education to ensure every student achieves

their potential and has entry to higher education. I am extremely fortunate to have with me

3 Future Leaders who have, alongside their colleagues, shown themselves to be

exceptionally effective, efficient and mission driven. The quality of training from Future

leaders, teamed alongside the alignment to our core values and ambitions has enabled

rapid improvement. These 3 Future Leaders are putting their training into practice and aretransforming the lives of children. An exceptional programme ” 

Jason Baigent, Principal, The Globe Academy, London

“We have had four Future Leaders over the last four years and a new one started in

September. All the Future Leaders have contributed hugely to the school. They have added

capacity and new ideas and shared the training and development they have benefitted from

as Future leaders participants. All four Future Leaders have gone on to jobs as senior

leaders – one with us – and I would employ them all if I could! We are very proud of their

achievements and know they will go on to be brilliant headteachers in the not too distant

future.” 

Kenny Frederick, Principal, George Green’s School, London

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