ABSTRACT
All schools are different but secondary schools often have operating systems and structures that are similar or, to the nonprofessional eye, identical.
All have a senior leadership (sometimes called management) team that typically consists of the head teacher, one or two deputy head teachers and two to four assistant head teachers. One of the deputy heads is named first deputy head teacher so that there is clarity about who takes over if the head teacher is ill or indisposed for any length of time.
