- Brian Sherratt
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footnotes =Dr. Brian Sherratt OBE JP FRSA was Headmaster (1984-2005) of
Great Barr School asecondary school on Aldridge Road inGreat Barr ,Birmingham ,England for children aged 11 to 19. During his time as Headmaster, Great Barr was the largest school in the UK.Acclaim
His formal retirement from the school was in August 2005. [cite news
url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=71085&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=9&MENU_ID=276
title=Opening of new school music block and retirement
publisher=Birmingham City Council
date=24 November 2005]Earlier career
Earlier in his career he worked in grammar and comprehensive schools in various parts of the country and also in a London college of education. Apart from running a very large school he is passionate about the environment and the part that education can play in informing young people about how they might improve and protect both local and global conditions both for themselves and for those who will inherit the planet from them. [cite news
url=http://www.zoominfo.com/search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=495314584
title=Brian Sherratt History
publisher=ZoomInfo
date=5/13/2005]Published work
Local Education Authorities Project [LEAP 2] (BBC 1988) The Locally Managed School (with Hywell Thomas).
‘Opting for Freedom: a stronger policy on grant-maintained schools’, Policy Study No 138, Centre for Policy Studies, 1994.
Grant-Maintained Status: considering the options, Longman, 1994.
A Structured Approach to School and Staff Development: from theory to practice (1996) – with John Wyatt.
Headteacher Appraisal (contrib, Arena, in association with the NAHT, 1997).
Radical Educational Policies and Secretaries of State (with Peter Ribbins, Cassell 1997).
Policy, Leadership and Professional Knowledge in Education (contrib, Chapman, BEMAS, 1999)
Journal of Education Policy, The role of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the making of educational policy: Kenneth Baker and the Lawson factor? Volume 19, No 6, November 2004 (with Peter Ribbins).
'Managing the Secondary School in the 1990s: A New View of Headship' with Peter Ribbins. The article talks about 'a new approach to the study of headship in which they have been involved together; an approach which they describe as a dialectic of biography and autobiography'. [cite news
url=http://ema.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/151
title=Brian Sherratt/Peter Ribbins article
publisher=Sage Journals Online
date=Ref on 11/05/08uccessor
His successor as head of Great Barr School is
Kate Abbott who also prides herself in these strong values. She was Curriculum Deputy at Great Barr before leaving to take up the headship of Bluecoat School, Walsall. She returned as head to Great Barr in September 2005.References
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