The major academy chain, its CEO and a handful of its schools’ struggles with super-high staff turnover

England’s largest primary-only academy chain may be basking in the limelight again today, its chief executive having given a “Why I’m worth it” interview, defending his �240,000-a-year salary and boasting an Ofsted record for its schools of “towards 80 per cent” rated good or better.

Yet Reach2’s recent record is far from perfect, amid serious on-the-ground concerns about the chain’s management of at least a small minority of its schools.

Copperfield academy, Gravesend

Yesterday (Thursday), the Kent Messenger carried the story of the latest in a series of headteachers to have left Copperfield academy, a primary school in Gravesend.

The paper billed this as the fifth head to have left Copperfield in five years, though we understand the correct figure might be four in five years, with the school now onto an interim head who is therefore the fifth over that period.