David Sellens – 61 years old, OBE holder and headmaster of a state primary in west London – gets sent lots of letters. Some are from GPs explaining on behalf of parents why a child must attend his school; some are from paid-for psychologists doing the same; some are from the parents themselves, personal appeals that beg Sellens for a spot. There was once a family who travelled from China simply to have a school tour. They were planning to move to the area; they arrived at the front gates with their suitcases.
‘We are ridiculously popular,’ says Sellens, sitting in
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