Pritesh Raichura is the Assistant Principal in charge of Teaching & Learning at Ark Soane Academy, a new and growing comprehensive secondary school in London that currently has Years 7 to 9. Pritesh has held the position as Head of Science for the last 5 years.

At his previous school, which is also in London and has a comprehensive intake too, his department had some of the best results in the country. In his Year 11 class, every single student achieved the highest GCSE grade: 9-9.

Pritesh blogs at BunsenBlue.wordpress.com. He tweets from @Mr_Raichura.