Started the journey as a Briscoe and continuing on as a Campbell
Monday 7 December 2020 is the 5 year anniversary of my first day as a School Business Manager. I cannot believe how fast the last 5 years has gone. For many years I had coveted the School Business Manager role from my position in the Education department in the Local Authority. I was confident I …
On 28th June I found out that I was a winner of ASBO International's Emerging Leaders Scholarship. The only problem was that the conference wasn't taking place until 24th October and so I had just under 4 months to distract my mind and stop myself bursting with excitement. Luckily, two weeks prior to receiving this …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 2: Making preparations"
It all started with a tweet in January 2019. The Association of School Business Officials (aka ASBO Intl) advertised their professional development scholarship offer to attend their annual conference. I cheekily replied to the tweet asking if it was open to overseas applicants. “Yes”, came the unexpected response. Well, that was the start of a …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 1: Taking the plunge"
I've just completed exactly six weeks in my new role as Business Director in a large South London secondary school with almost 2000 pupils on roll. The school I was in immediately prior to this was a small primary with 275 on roll. You see the difference here? I started my new role with a …
As we move into October, I'm looking back on the first month of term with a smile on my face as I realise it's been a successful month. September started with me taking up a new role. I made the move from SBM in a smallish primary school (275 on roll) to Business Director in …
I used to work in the Local Authority in a department within Children’s Services/Education. I was Deputy Head of service for the last 7 years that I was there. I was very comfortable in my role, confident in my abilities to manage the operations and I had the most wonderful colleagues that had come to …
