State of Education survey report 2016 | Page 4

Percentage of school leaders who found the following areas of responsibility difficult to manage in their school over the past 12 months: Teacher workload 1 84% Internal assessment post-levels 77% 2 Preparing for new performance measures 66% Teacher recruitment and retention 62% Staff morale 61% 4 Providing for pupils with SEN 61% 6 Preparing for Ofsted inspection 54% I could have listed several of these easily!” School leader 5 7 Governor recruitment 3 47% Keeping school premises fit for purpose 46% 8 9 Implementing the Prevent duty 14% 10