Started the journey as a Briscoe and continuing on as a Campbell
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 …
The last day of term finally arrived and then whizzed past in a flash. Everyone counting down to home time in a state of end-of-term-delirium. True to form whilst everyone was winding down I beavered away to the last minute. Having started working at the crack of dawn I was determined to make it through …
A few weeks ago I tweeted about how long this half term felt and how Christmas was so far away. This past week the music leader in my school sent an email round to let everyone know that Christmas Concert song practice would start in December. It's an unwritten rule at my school that we …
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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 …
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 …
As we approach a new academic year I am raring to go and chomping at the bit to get started. I’m really looking forward to starting the year with a sense of purpose and direction - something which is a first for me. Previously I had feelings best described as anxious anticipation and nervousness. This …
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