Teach Primary

The Headteacher provides school business professionals and headteachers with helpful advice and useful information relating to all the organisational and logistical aspects of running a primary school.

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The Headteacher offers something unique - a direct line to thousands of decision makers in primary schools across the country. No other education business magazine brings your message to as many primary school headteachers and school business managers.

As well as distributing to the larger primaries across the country and so allowing advertisers to target those schools with the most spending power, we also put the magazine in the hands of the thousands of headteachers leading smaller settings, each of which still has a significant spend. What’s more, these heads are particularly receptive to the advice provided by the school business managers and CEOs writing for The Headteacher since many are first and foremost experts in teaching and learning, and lack financial qualifications and experience.

Our content gets to the heart of what it takes to manage a successful primary school, showing best practice not only in all areas of procurement, from planning an annual budget to redeveloping the school grounds, but also in marshalling human resources, such as hiring the best staff and developing great programmes of CPD.

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School Improvement

School Improvement

Each issue includes a mix of short advice pieces and longer features highlighting steps that school leaders can take to improve pupil outcomes.

A Targeted Circulation

A Targeted Circulation

By going out to all primary schools, your message is being heard by a wider audience, many of whom do not have access to an SBM and are searching for advice and best buys.

Procurement And Budgeting

Procurement And Budgeting

With financial considerations increasingly central to how schools operate, TH can provide readers with tips on purchasing school supplies, guidance on how to plan for those big capital expenditures and more besides.

Influential Content Partners

Influential Content Partners

We’ve had insights from Ofsted, NASBM, ASCL, BESA, The Key, ATL, and Challenge Partners to name a few.

Consultation Service For Education Startups

Consultation Service For Education Startups

Our commercial media team has over 25 years of experience of marketing brands in the education marketplace and is available to lend our partners advice on how best to promote their products and services to schools using our publishing channels.

Buildings And Facilities

Buildings And Facilities

Gain inspiration from our detailed reports on how school leaders, architects and builders have worked together on successful construction and expansion projects.

print reach

Print Reach


The Headteacher is mailed directly, reaching 19,600 primary school headteachers and school business managers across England and Wales

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Digital Coverage


The Headteacher provides online support through its website, www.theheadteacher.com. Here school business managers and headteachers can find vital information on running a successful school, navigating between four main areas: Assessment & Attainment, Procurement, Pupils & Parents, and Staff Management. The website pairs with our dedicated newsletter, which brings valuable business news to headteachers across the country.

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Key sections covering assessment, procurement, management and community

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Articles from experts on successful school management

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Open rate on our newsletters read by thousands of headteachers

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Our Contributors


The Headteacher contributors include primary headteachers and school business managers who are able to draw on years of experience and accumulated expertise, and are willing to discuss issues of concern to the profession in a knowledgeable, honest and sometimes forthright manner. We also regularly hear from some of the sector's leading professional organisations, including the National Association for School Business Managers, the British Education Suppliers' Association and the Association of School and College Leaders.

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Mark Wright

Director of AMiE – the leadership section of the ATL union

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Hayley Dunn

Business manager, Windmill Primary, Telford

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Sarah Hardy

Executive head, TBAP Teaching Schools Alliance

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Nazli Hussein

Freelance school business manager

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