
Rob Connolly
Rob Connolly is a UK school leadership consultant who runs a funded Senior Attendance & Leadership Resilience Check for headteachers and trust leaders in complex schools.
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Sep 18, 2026
Why Great Headteachers Know When to Slow Down | Rob Connolly
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Paul CollinHOST
But what got you there in the first place? Where's your background kind of been from since a young age through to where you are now?

Rob ConnollyGUEST
Yeah, well, I grew up in Norfolk and had a great education through the state system in Norfolk.

Rob ConnollyGUEST
Really supported in my education through great schools, a wonderful supportive family, mum, dad, sibling.
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Paul CollinHOST
And I suppose on my left-hand side, I'm thinking, you know, this idyllic world that we've created and the culture that we've got in a very happy school, sitting alongside the pressures of today, the pressures that exist in the world that you've just talked about with young people, but equally in school systems, pressures, you know, monetary context, all of the optics around Ofsted, etc., What do you do to protect the belonging when the pressure gets high, like not only for your school, but for yourself as a leader?