New National Professional Qualifications for Executive Leadership
Lawrence Sheriff School and Griffin Teaching School Alliance have been granted a licence to deliver NPQML,
NPQSL and
NPQH.
National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)
The Griffin Teaching School will also be working with ASCL to deliver the NPQEL qualification.
The NPQEL is designed for those who are serving, or are aspiring to become, executive heads or chief executives of multi-academy trusts.
ASCL have been awarded the contract by the Department for Education and will be working with four well-established and highly regarded teaching school alliances, as well as the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE), to provide a first-rate executive leadership programme leading to the new qualification.
The first programme will begin in 2018. It will consist of local and national face-to-face days and twilight sessions, delivered by a team of specialists and existing executive heads, together with a range of online resources and executive coaching opportunities.
The topics covered will include curriculum excellence, accountability and safeguarding across the group of schools; talent management and succession planning; school improvement strategy; and marketing and brand management.
The partners are Tenax Schools Trust and Altius Teaching School Alliance, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Yorkshire Leadership Community, in Harrogate; Lawrence Sheriff School and Griffin Teaching School Alliance, in Rugby; and Athelstan Academy Trust and Avon Teaching School Alliance, in Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
ASCL General Secretary Geoff Barton said: “We are proud to be working alongside partners with a proven track record in educational excellence and look forward to welcoming the first participants to this exciting new programme.
“ASCL provides support and representation of the highest quality to school and college leaders, and great leadership development is an important part of our work.
“This new programme will complement our popular and renowned professional development courses, ensuring that future and serving leaders of groups of schools are able to draw on the best possible practice and evidence in these hugely important roles.”
Ian Bauckham, CEO of Tenax Schools Trust and former ASCL President, said: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with a group of colleagues from different schools and groups of schools to shape a programme for aspiring and actual executive leaders. As increasingly schools work together, it is critical that we proactively develop a pipeline of leaders who are equipped to take on these wider roles. Deep leadership experience combined with the specific expertise and research insights which CUREE brings will, I think, enable us to offer a cutting edge and affordable programme to colleagues.”
Don’t miss your opportunity to join this new NPQEL programme. Register your interest by emailing NPQEL@ascl.org.uk
WMCA Education Survey
As part of developing the best resources to teach sustainability to young people in the West Midlands and beyond, we have created a 5 minute survey which we would like teachers/education providers of PSHE or Citizenship to complete. The aim of the survey is to understand what types of teaching resources are required and the best ways to deliver them. This survey is part of a larger piece of work which we are currently doing with the objective of giving teachers the most suitable and effective resources to teach sustainability to their pupils. The survey will be an invaluable source of information as knowing what teachers really want is the key to providing the right resources that they will actually find useful.
We would really value your assistance in circulating the survey as widely as possible among teachers/education providers in schools in your areas. We have also included an incentive for completing the survey which is shopping vouchers of £25 each (4 available) when they complete the survey.
Please find attached the Survey link https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/P75X6WX
Sharing Shakespeare's story
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is excited to announce the Museums and Schools programme 2017-18, "Sharing Shakespeare's Story", a partnership programme with the Department for Education.
The programme consists of free workshops at the museum to the value of £1,200 plus travel subsidiaries.
It will give 30 KS2 children from each school the opportunity to work for a day at one of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust houses and a further two classes the opportunity to visit Stratford.
The main programme will run on selected dates between September 2017 and March 2018 and includes:
- CPD for teachers
- A Sharing Shakespeare’s Story project training day for teachers
- A full day familiarisation visit to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for the children who will be guiding
- An immersive day for the participating pupils featuring guiding in the designated house and engaging with visitors from across the world
- Children’s contributions to an on-line exhibition
- A visit to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for an additional two classes from each school to see their peers in action and to participate in a range of hands-on activities.
For more details about the programme click here
If you are interested in finding out more about this wonderful opportunity please contact sbt.education@shakespeare.org.uk.
Battlefield Poetry Competition 2017
Calling all budding poets and writers in primary and secondary schools........!!
Two years ago, a small group of volunteers, with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, set up a permanent exhibition in St Peter’s Church, Radway, in South Warwickshire. The interactive and static displays tell the story of the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642, the first armed conflict of the English Civil War, and describe the impact of the battle on the local community.
To coincide with the anniversary of the Battle, and to mark two years of the exhibition and accompanying website battleofedgehillexhibitionradway.org.uk a poetry competition is being held with prizes of book tokens in four different categories:
- Children of Primary School age
- Secondary School students aged between 11 and 18
- Adults, 19 and over
- Residents of Radway village
Poems will be judged by Clare Mulley, a Yorkshire-born poet, journalist and teacher who is Poet in Residence at the Battlefields Trust.
Below are two very different poems which could act as stimuli for your own students' poems. The first was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1911, the second by Clare Mulley herself in 2016.
These may also be found on the exhibition website.
Entries
These can be submitted in either handwritten form or electronically.
Please note that entries cannot be returned so don’t be sure to make a copy before you send it in!
Handwritten poems should be sent to:-
Battle of Edgehill Poetry Competition
c/o 1 The Green
Radway
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV35 0UG
If you prefer to submit poems electronically, please follow the link on the website
battleofedgehillexhibitionradway.org.uk
Please note that the closing date for entries is September 22nd 2017. The winners will be announced in October and prizes of book tokens awarded to the authors of the best poem in each category.
EDGEHILL FIGHT
By Rudyard Kipling
Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand
Beneath the summer sun,
And the stubble fields on either hand
Where Sour and Avon run.
There is no change in the patient land
That has bred us every one.
She should have passed in cloud and fire
And saved us from this sin
Of war--red war--'twixt child and sire,
Household and kith and kin,
In the heart of a sleepy Midland shire,
With the harvest scarcely in.
But there is no change as we meet at last
On the brow-head or the plain,
And the raw astonished ranks stand fast
To slay or to be slain
By the men they knew in the kindly past
That shall never come again--
By the men they met at dance or chase,
In the tavern or the hall,
At the justice bench and the market place,
At the cudgel play or brawl--
Of their own blood and speech and race,
Comrades or neighbours all!
More bitter than death this day must prove
Whichever way it go,
For the brothers of the maids we love
Make ready to lay low
Their sisters' sweethearts, as we move
Against our dearest foe.
Thank Heaven! At last the trumpets peal
Before our strength gives way.
For King or for the Commonweal--
No matter which they say,
The first dry rattle of new-drawn steel
Changes the world today!
THE FACTS OF LIFE
By Clare Mulley
There is nothing between the soul and heaven but air.
There is nothing between the soul and air but bone.
There is nothing between the air and bone but flesh.
There is nothing between the bone and flesh but blood.
There is nothing between the flesh and blood but seconds.
There is nothing between the blood and seconds but metal.
There is nothing between the metal and seconds but your own hand.