NY wrote
Graeme wrote

There is a head and two deputies, none of whom actually teach regularly.

I think it's normal for the head and deputy head to spend most of their
time managing and very little, if any, time teaching. As in any walk of
life: the more senior you get, the less time you spend doing what you are
trained to do and the more time you spend managing other people doing it.

At the infant/junior school that I went to, I don't think the headmistress
and headmaster taught at all.

I know mine did, because they both taught me. Mainstream
classes too, English. And that wasn't a govt school either,
one of the country's premier what you lot call a public school.

At the first secondary school, the head taught us scripture (double
scripture on a Saturday morning - deep joy!) and according to the
prospectus he also taught "modern languages" - probably to the senior
boys. The deputy taught chemistry to the sixth form but otherwise managed.

At the second secondary school (Dad changed jobs) the head didn't teach -
the only time we saw him was when he droned on in assembly about "you must
have a Good Revision Programme" and "the Good Name of the School"
(delivered while standing ramrod straight, head back, looking down his
nose - all of which was imitated mercilessly!)

Yeah, outs was the same "accept the challenge" with the same derision
from the kids behind his back. He'd been a sergeant in the war.

.. and the deputies

We only had the one, anglican minister.

spent a fair amount of time teaching - but then there were two joint
deputy heads so their probably shared the managerial side of the job.