This book provides practical advice and encouragement from an Outstanding headteacher, along with concrete ideas and strategies that work, which will be invaluable to any primary head teacher wishing to improve their performance and to anyone aspiring to become a primary head. By questioning your own performance and how you manage the team around you, it is easy to introduce changes without conflict to become the head teacher you want to be. This guide has been written in a conversational style and is divided into sections that can be dipped in and out of or even read from cover to cover. From that crucial first week and managing a head teacher's workload to improving staff wellbeing and pupil behaviour, Gary Nott provides sensible, authoritative advice - along with some humorous stories and insightful anecdotes about being a head teacher and what it takes to be a brilliant one!