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Headteacher Updates Heads & Governor Briefings

Briefing Events for Heads and Governors

Headteacher Updates 2013 -14

These updates are held termly and sessions are lead by the Heads of Primary and Secondary School Effectiveness. Their purpose is to communicate key operational matters of importance to all schools. They are aimed at headteachers and/or senior staff in schools. Information about headteacher updates is published in the Schools’ Bulletin.

The presentations for the Spring Term 2013 Update held on the 27th February are below:

Heads Update Presentation - Spring 2013

• Powerpoint 2003 1.16MB, 26 slides, 28/02/2013, heads_update_spr13.ppt

Covers:

• 'Be The Best You Can Be' - Olympic legacy programme
• Private Fostering - the statutory obligations for schools
• HCC’s E-Market
• Music - Ofsted: Forthcoming music subject inspection 
• General Ofsted Update
• Herts for Learning Update
• National College of School Leadership and TDA upate

Inspiring, engaging and empowering your students and staff to be the best they can - Tim McLachlan, 21st Century Legacy

• Adobe pdf, 1.5MB/30 pages, 28/02/2013, be_best_you_can_tim_mclachlan.pdf

Private Fostering

• Powerpoint 2003, 118kb/20 slides, 28/02/2013, private_fostering.ppt

• Headteacher Updates - Archive of Presentations

Governors Briefings

Hertfordshire Association of School Governors (HASG) Area Forums each term give the opportunity for presentations and debates on topics of interests and are timed for two hours. These events are free to any Governor of any school in Hertfordshire.

Headteacher Seminars (Primary)  

These seminars are held termly and are lead by the Head of Primary School Effectiveness. Their purpose is to inform primary headteachers of key operational issues that are of importance to them and to share good practice. The seminars are aimed at headteachers and/or senior staff. For further information:

Pat McAteer
Head of Achievement Primary (Interim)
Tel: 01438 843937
Email: patrick.mcateer@hertscc.gov.uk

The Schools’ Bulletin

The schools’ electronic bulletin is published weekly during term time. The purpose of the bulletin is to give schools up-to-date information from teams across the local authority about operational issues.  The bulletin is published on The Grid website on Mondays and a reminder is sent to all school admin email accounts on the Friday before.  To view the schools’ bulletin online please visit:

• www.thegrid.org.uk/info/bulletin/

Schools Forum

The dates for the Hertfordshire Schools Forum meetings are available on Herts Direct at:

• http://www.hertsdirect.org/your-council/hcc/childserv/aboutcs/polplanrep/schoolsforum/