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 …
Balancing act
Every morning I meet with my Head Teacher and Deputy Head for a briefing meeting. Some days the meetings last for 15 mins, other days they last for 45 mins. Inevitably I find myself jotting things down throughout the meeting - making notes about things cropping up I need to do and things that I …