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David Perry

Longcroft School and Sixth Form View School Website
David Perry Trust in a team of seasoned teaching professionals

With over twenty years of experience in education across Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, I have spent the majority of my career in one of the largest and highest performing schools in the country. Having enjoyed a number of roles and responsibilities, it has been my privilege to serve as a Headteacher in two schools over recent years with very different contexts.

My vision for education can be simply articulated as one that is ‘world class’. It is an education that never settles for average, that never makes excuses and that reflects an absolute ambition for each and every child.

In a culture founded on a commitment to excellence, where children are truly known, valued, enabled and empowered, we can reimagine what is possible as individuals and as a community.

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Wonder News

22 August 2025

Impressive Resilience

We are delighted and proud to announce another great set of results for our Year 11 pupils this year, which are once again above ...

23 February 2024

Curriculum Intent & Curriculum Courage

In designing a curriculum – given its prevalence in the judgement of quality of education – much pre-eminence is rightly given to coverage of ...

23 February 2024

Achieving Compliance

The Wonder Learning Partnership’s Estates and Compliance team work closely with our family of schools to support the extensive range of compliance matters across ...

6 November 2023

The Big Conversation – Series 1: Our Vision

Welcome to ‘The Big Conversation’ at the Wonder Learning Partnership where you can be a part of shaping our Trust. It is time to ...

20 October 2023

What is Female Genital Mutilation or FGM?

The World Health Organisation defines FGM as “…all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to ...

16 October 2023

The Benefits of Peer Observation in Teaching: Learning from Each Other

Malcolm Gladwell first introduced the notion of the ‘10,000-hour rule’ to a mass audience in his book ‘Outliers’ in 2008. Here it is claimed ...

6 November 2023

Welcome to the Haematology Department!

Pupils at Melbourne Primary School have taken their learning to a new level already this term by making replica blood to learn all about ...

11 January 2024

Behave Yourself: The critical role of the curriculum

So…you have drafted or revised your behaviour guidance? You are confident that it now links explicitly to your vision and values. Clear rewards and ...

11 January 2024

Curriculum Conversation: Making the Connection

In the primary setting, as one teacher for the most part will deliver the full curriculum, interleaving within a year is a natural and ...

11 January 2024

Reading and Vocabulary

Wittgenstein said that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world”. While linguists now agree that concepts are not wholly bound ...

11 December 2023

The Curriculum Conversation

The curriculum conversation starts with this contribution from Prime Minister James Callaghan – then Prime Minister – taken from a speech at Ruskin College, ...

11 November 2023

Curriculum Rationale

Ofsted’s School Inspection Handbook states that “inspectors will consider the extent to which the school’s curriculum sets out the knowledge and skills that pupils ...