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(More customer reviews)Hilarious, witty, wry and engaging, this book is entertaining from beginning to end.It gives a fascinating glimpse into the life of a headmaster - but what an extraordinarily brilliant headmaster! Was it the Gurkha Rifles that gave Christopher Martin that extra magical quality so engaging to young and old? I am so glad he took the time and trouble to record his diverse, challenging, and fascinating experiences in this excellent book.
Reviewed on December 17 in the Times Educational Supplement:
Head Over Heels is a first-hand account of leadership in one of the country's best-known and most successful independent schools.
For the last four years of his eight-year headship at Millfield (part of a 35-year career in education), Christopher Martin kept a diary of anecdotes that made each day memorable to him; some quite banal, others extraordinary. Cumulatively, these accounts form the book Head Over Heels: In the Hot Seat at Millfield School and give us a snapshot of the hectic life of a headteacher in the country's largest co-educational boarding school.
It also carries an endorsement from former Labour education secretary, Estelle, now Baroness, Morris. Her preface enthuses: "This book is not just a valuable insight into life in an educational hot seat, but testament to the power of teachers to change lives."
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