MrsBills' Blog

It is the morning after the first day of my first CofE NPQH module.  What a day yesterday was. It was jam packed full of fantastic thoughts, new ideas and information on the assignment. I am currently looking back through my notes after possibly the worst night sleep in a long time! So much for a good night away from the children, someone TV blaring until gone 1am, but never mind! So Jenny started with reflections on Psalm 23 and I loved the link to how it speaks of different aspects of leadership that we explored through the day. Andy Wolfe led us in a truly inspiring session on how vision can inspire passion and knowing SIAMs is coming up for us as a school I found this really helpful. Various documents that I hadn't seen were shared such as the ' Ethos Enhancing outcomes' and I will definitely be making use of the questions in these documents to make staff stop and reflect on new practise in light of the vision.  I also can see how it would be brilliant for gover...

As part of a middle leadership course I am doing I wrote this blog post about my experience. As its far to early and I cant sleep I thought I would share it with you. Through my action research project I started off looking at how pupils in year 3 were seeming to make little or no progressduring the year. This was particuarly true in literacy. A culture of blaming the previous teacher or the ks1 SATs was common. The general feeling was that children were making progress however it was not being demonstrated by the assessment. Is that through our own school assessment practise? Was the assessment in year 2 accurate? There seemed more questions than answers when I first started this action research. I soon found I was not alone. However we are not an infant- junior school where there is much documented evidence about this problem... year 2 and 3 are even in the same building working alongside each other all year. As the middle leader in charge of year 2 and 3 I felt some responsibility...