Started the journey as a Briscoe and continuing on as a Campbell
I started my website in 2018 full of motivation to write blogs about my SBL journey. I kept it up for a while and then it dwindled away. I now find I haven’t published a blog post in four years. Where has all that time gone? As usual, it is term seven that provides me …
I have this strange habit of wanting to fill every hour of my day with “something constructive”. If I pair that with the feeling of not wanting to “let people down” it can lead to a very full diary. Lately I have been reflecting more than usual. It comes naturally to me anyway, however, the …
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Someone recently asked me what I think are the most important things to focus on during the first 100 days in post as secondary school SBM. Luckily for me this was only a few months ago so quite fresh in my memory and easy to recall. Although I started my role in September 2019 I …
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A little something about my lockdown experience and (my perception of) how it’s going.
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 I approach my third year anniversary of becoming a Business Manager I find that my focus is moving more towards my practice. Much of the first two years was about learning the ropes. My experience of becoming an SBM is that it is like jumping into the deep end of the swimming pool. You …
First week of school over and boy it felt like a long week! This year I will be making sure I take some time to reflect at the end of each week. This is all part of quest to become an awesome SBM (which I can’t be if I have no idea what I doing …
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