Final Cohort Day

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Final Cohort Day

• 20 October 2009

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Programme

• Welcome and introductions
• Moving Towards Headship
• Learning Journeys
• Authentic Leadership
• The first 100 days
• Coaching sessions and review
• Final review and close

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Heading for HeadshipFinal Cohort Day20th
October 2009
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278 Primary Schools in Lincolnshire 2009

• 0-30 pupils 3
• 31-50 24
• 51-75 33 20-100 pupils 95
• 76-100 35
• 101-150 pupils 45 101-200 pupils 100
• 151-200 55
• 201-250 20 201-300 pupils 42
• 251-300 22

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Disappearing Headteachers?

• 278 schools
• 260 headships and declining

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Declining children.

• Lincolnshire PAN 8167
• Intake
• Y6 7673
• Y5 7518
• Y4 7125
• Y3 6807
• Y2 6606
• Y1 6832
• Reception 6765

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Declining numbers

• 2009/2010
• 7673 Y6 children leaving
• 6996 Reception children needing places
• 2010/2011
• 7518 leaving
• 7295 needing places
• 2011/2012
• 6807 leaving
• 7663 needing places

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But..

• Pressure on places in urban schools
• Housing devt in urban areas
• Young families trend to live in less rural
  areas
• Sparse rural areas expected to continue to fall

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Surplus places

• 10 schools in Louth area in SBD Demo Project
• 2004/5 614
• 2008/9 527
• 2012/13 540
• Surplus capacity
• Average 25
• Range 0-75
• DCSF believes 4-10 is acceptable
• 25 is unacceptable

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Headteacher shortage?

• 261 headteachers
• 23 retired by 2013
• 40-48 by 2018
• approx 125 retirements

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Supply line?

• 31 appointments 2007-08
• 18 new to headship
• 48 appointments 2008-09
• 28 new to headship

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Supply Line

• 296 NPQH graduates from Lincolnshire
• 118 now headteachers
• New model 2008..Ready, able and willing?

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Supply Line

• Lincs candidates
• Nov 08 9
• Feb 09 1
• May 09 4
• Sept 09 3?
• Total 17/18?
• Needed 25/26?

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Leadership

• 19 schools in hard governance federations (inc
  2 secondary)
• 4 more in January 2010
• 17 schools in soft governance federations ( 1
  in Rutland)

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Whats up?

• Ruskington Chestnut Street C.E. (350)
• Butterwick (195)
• Caistor CE/Methodist (268)
• Scamblesby - acting HT (58)
• Morton Trentside (197)

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Selection Feedback

• Personal Statements
• V
• Person Spec
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Selection - feedback

• Face of the school!

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Face of the school?

• Appearance
• Dress
• Body Language
• Sarcasm
• Colloquial Language
• Inspiration
• Respect for governors

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Small Schools

• Understanding the ethos
• Performance data
• Personalisation
• Making a difference adding value
• Commitment to small school sustainability

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Cohort Session III

• 20 October 2009

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Planning Your Next Move Developing A Clear
Proposition
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Interview Tactics
Look for and use open platform questions
Connect past experience to the future agenda with
three part answers
Know what you believe and project it consistently
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The Recruitment Process Typical Selection Methods
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The Recruitment Process Typical Selection Methods
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The Recruitment Process Typical Selection Methods
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Pressures of School life for Leaders!

• supply cover
  project manager governor
• Ofsted pupils annual
  reports breakfast clubs
• policy maker
  crowd controller
• new diplomas
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  governors
  reports
• appointments of staff
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  monitoring evaluation
  
• health safety officer
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  SIP/ meetings
• caretaker/site manager
  bursar/finance
• data performance management appraiser
• assemblies boys toilets
  questionnaires

Leading Learning and Teaching
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Influential Leaders

• Enabling
• Honest and open/integrity
• Respecting individuals
• Accountable
• Human, not super-human
• Challenging and supporting
• Energy/passion
• Confident

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To thine own self be true
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Our visionfor headship
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What are your real strengths?
Develop
Three to five
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If the match is right..
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My personal Manifesto

• What is it that I want to achieve in Headship?
• What are the core beliefs that I will not
  compromise on?
• What are the significant moments on my journey
  towards headship
• What are the important elements in my life that I
  will honour?

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Seek first to understand..

• If you want to be a leader, you have to
• be a real human being. .You must
• understand yourself first.
• Peter Senge, 2004

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Of our greatest leaders, when their work is
done, the people will say, We did it
ourselves Old Chinese Proverb
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Our visionfor headship
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What is education for?
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What is education for?

• To discover and realise the genius in everyone
• To learn about the people in the world with whom
  you have to live and their history and culture
• To acquire the skills to do the work you want
• To build up your confidence in yourself
• To discover the danger of hate and the power of
  love

Tony Benn
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Learning Priorities