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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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 …
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.
Over the last couple of weeks I've discovered just how wonderful SBMs are. Recent weeks had been very HR focused for me (recruiting is not my favourite part of the job but that's life). More and more I was starting to fall into a pattern of coming in super early and either working solidly until …
Most people try to form new habits at New Years - joining a gym, dry January, giving up meat etc etc. I tend to make my resolutions on each birthday as it's a more meaningful date for me. Since working in schools however I find that I am reflecting on things much more frequently. At …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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