Started the journey as a Briscoe and continuing on as a Campbell
After almost six years as a School Business Professional I finally made it to the National Conference hosted by our professional body - ISBL. I’d always felt it was something I should experience but hadn’t quite gotten around to making arrangements. This year, 2021, not only was it my first experience but I also participated …
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 …
A little something about my lockdown experience and (my perception of) how it’s going.
After starting a new role in September I can stop and reflect on making it half way through my first academic year.
My trip to the US lasted for 5 days and what a memorable experience it turned out to be. After the first day I felt greatly at ease and relaxed amongst the new colleagues I'd met. The next four days that followed were filled with carefully selected education sessions such as a session on "a …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 5: Lessons learned"
Day 2 of the conference started with a visit to a High School. It was one of the things I was keen to do on my visit overseas so made sure that I signed up for it before I even got to the US. I boarded a coach with 18 other delegates and off we …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 4: Mingling and Mixing"
It all begins The conference started for me on Thursday at 4pm. I joined the other Emerging Leader Scholarship winners and we all introduced ourselves and talked a bit about our background and what we hoped to achieve from the conference and what we could contribute. Aside from the conference staff we were also introduced …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 3: Let the learning begin"
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 …
Briscoe Campbell 