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"Every child deserves an ice-cream. It’s a strange opening remark from a
primary headteacher, but then Chris Dyson is an unusual man, a big-hearted
softie with a daft sense of fun – at least, that’s how pupils describe him.
He calls himself “loud and over the top” but his exuberant nature masks a
serious mission to transform the life chances of children at Parklands, the
Leeds primary he took over nine years ago. At the time, children at the school
on the sprawling Seacroft estate were running riot on the roof and the
isolation cubicles were overflowing. Now the classes are orderly, the doors are
open and his pupils get some of the best primary maths scores in the country.
Lots of headteachers have managed to turn schools around but Dyson claims to
have done it through love and making the school a fun place to be, not through
the sacking of staff, exclusion of troublemakers and a strict rulebook. Only
one child has been permanently excluded in the nine years and he regularly
takes in children that other schools don’t want."
Via Garry Knight.
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