Why you should attend this conference
Now in its 8th successful year, the Annual School Heads conference will take an in depth look at legislation currently passing through Parliament together with important new Government guidance to ensure you are fully up-to-date with the changes that will impact on your school. This year the conference will benefit from split streams in the afternoon to allow primary and secondary heads to concentrate on the legislation and case studies relevant to their school. The conference will allow ample networking opportunities with fellow professionals and government influencers.
Benefits of attending
Attending this conference will help you:
1. Receive a comprehensive update on educational policy, legal and management issues
2. Learn from acknowledged experts in each of the critical areas
3. Better understand how these developments affect your role as head teacher
4. Get full documentation – authoritative commentary on all subjects
5. Network with leading professionals helping to shape guidance and legislation
PROGRAMME
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Chair’s welcome and introduction
Tanya Callman, Barrrister and Legal Trainer, Edulaw Training, 2 King’s Bench Walk Chambers
9.40 Keynote session
● Improving outcomes for children, including work on children’s health and child poverty
● The National Challenge: raising standards, supporting schools
● Responding to new challenges that will affect children and families
Representative from the Department of Children Schools and Families
10.20 Legal update
● A comprehensive update on important legal developments in the field of education over the last year
● The practical implications for head teachers
Mark Blois, Partner, Browne Jacobson
11.00 Coffee and networking
11.20 Becoming a sustainable school
● Recommendations for 2020
● Ensuring your school is preparing pupils for a lifetime of sustainable living
Janice Lawson, Head of Sustainable Development, Department for Children Schools and Families
12.00 Talent management of senior staff
● Attracting, developing and managing talent
● The key challenges in approaching talent management
● How talent management should be linked to your schools over strategy
12.40 Questions and discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.10 Performance management for support staff
● Optimising the use of support staff
● Undertaking a skills audit
● Introducing a support staff appraisal system
● Addressing the balance of administrative tasks undertaken by teachers and support staff
2.50 Break out sessions with split streams relevant to primary/secondary schools
3.00 The Primary Review
● How can primary education be improved?
● How will the country’s social, economic and political future impact on primary education?
3.40 Strategic leadership in primary schools
● Exploring and developing solutions to leadership succession
● Encouraging more leaders to step up to primary headship
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3.00 The Secondary National Strategy
● Transforming secondary education
● Paying careful attention to pupils individual learning skills
● Pupils supporting each other
3.40 Creating a Successful 14-19 Collaborative
● How was 14-19 collaboration established across the Borough’s schools and colleges?
● What were the barriers?
● What are the new challenges?
Beverley Johnston, Director, Bromley 14-19
4.20 Panel discussion
4.40 Close of conference
