Brian Sherratt

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Brian W Sherratt
Known for	Headteacher; Great Barr School
Successor	Kate Abbott

Dr. Brian Sherratt was the previous headteacher of Great Barr School a secondary school on Aldridge Road in Great Barr, Birmingham, England for children aged 11 to 19.

1 Acclaim and Retirement
2 Earlier career
3 Writing
4 Successor
5 References

[edit] Acclaim and Retirement

He is acclaimed with making the school one of the best in the country until his formal retirement from the school in November 2004. ^[1]

Whilst at the school Dr Sherratt worked with Maureen Brennan who is now famed for the turn-around of Hillcrest School and Community College in Netherton, West Midlands.

[edit] 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. ^[2]

[edit] Writing

Dr Sherratt co-wrote the article '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'.^[3]