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Rob Connolly

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.

Sep 18, 2026

4:29
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?
4:37
Yeah, well, I grew up in Norfolk and had a great education through the state system in Norfolk.
4:43
Really supported in my education through great schools, a wonderful supportive family, mum, dad, sibling.
4:53
My brother is a real role model to me.
4:55
We're very different, but he's inspired me.
4:57
He works in the sports industry.
5:00
And much of my upbringing was through sports.

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20:46
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?

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