Over the last couple of weeks I've discovered just how wonderful SBMs are. Recent weeks had been very HR focused for me (recruiting is not my favourite part of the job but that's life). More and more I was starting to fall into a pattern of coming in super early and either working solidly until …
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat!
So far I have been a Business Manager in two different schools. When I think about things like Ofsted ratings, demographics, borough, roll numbers I can see glaring differences between the two. But what they have in common (as with all schools I hope) is the drive and desire to make it a wonderful experience …
Each one teach one
I quite often qualify my SBM Twitter posts with a variant of "I'm still new to this". It seems to type itself without me even thinking about it but something unexpected happened recently that made me re-evaluate this assessment of myself. I got a call from one of the Senior HR officers at my LA …
You’re a governor? How do you find the time to do that?
Back in 2006, in my late 20s, I filled out an application form with my Local Authority to volunteer to be a school governor. I had been working the Education department of a neighbouring LA for the last 3 years at that point. Added to that I was raised by parents (especially my Mother) who …
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