ABSTRACT
This book is for the majority of primary school teachers who have curriculum and management responsibilities and for those who aspire to senior management positions. It will provide an analysis of those responsibilities and of how they may best be exercised in the changing climate within which all of us involved in primary education now work. It will take account of the many radical policy changes that have influenced the management of primary schools since 1988. Above all it will offer practical guidelines on which effective strategies for managing primary schools may be based while recognising that good management is not an end in itself. The main purpose of schools is to contribute to the education of children. The processes of teaching and learning are central to this. The purpose of school management must be to promote and facilitate these processes.
