Headteacher Judy Shaw: 'My staff are fantastic but they can't fight poverty'

Incoming president of headteachers' union says the education system is at breaking point and school leaders have lost patience On Judy Shaw's first day as a headteacher, a man came to show her one of the school's vast brick walls. She recalls: "He said, 'Is that pointing all right for you then?' and I stood there and I thought, this job is not what I thought it was going to be." But 14 years later Shaw is still headteacher of Tuel Lane infant school in Sowerby Bridge, a town nestled along the Ri...