ABSTRACT
The term ‘management’ is relatively new to schools. It probably arrived with the introduction of local Management of Schools in the 1980s. Up to that point primary school head teachers had not seen themselves as managers and it is true to say that many are still not keen on that term being applied to them. However, it is probably fair to say that most primary schools today use the term senior management to describe one or more people whose responsibility it is to manage the affairs of the school. In a very small primary school this may be the head teacher while in a large primary it might comprise the Head, Deputy and Key Stage Coordinators (Foundation, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2). Some primary schools may consider that Governors are part of the management team and certainly OFSTED place great store on their managerial input. The rest of the members of the staff team, until very recently, would not have described themselves as managers. The growing use of the term subject manager led many primary school teachers, who may not have used the terminology before, to think of a middle layer of management.
