WE1 Early Years

Following the recent recruitment campaign, and selection process, we are pleased to announce that Amanda King, Executive Headteacher of Bedworth Heath and Atherstone Nursery schools, has been offered and has accepted a secondment to the role of Strategic Lead for Early Years across Warwickshire and Coventry. We are grateful to the governing body for agreeing to release Amanda to cover this new and important role. The arrangement is for two years (with an option to extend to three) and is a joint appointment across Warwickshire County Council (WCC) and Coventry City Council (CCC). Amanda will be spending approximately half of her time in each local authority. 

We have modelled this Early Years role on two other existing roles; firstly Heather Blevins' highly successful joint role as head of the adult education service / adult and community learning (Coventry and Warwickshire), and secondly Marie Rooney's new and innovative fixed term Strategic Lead for alternative provision role in WCC, leading on WE2a in Warwickshire's new education strategy.

The Early Years role will lead on WE1 in Warwickshire, and will line manage a suite of Early Years teams in Coventry. In keeping with the government's strategy to embed 'system leadership' in education, it is appropriate to be using a secondment of an Executive Headteacher and national leader of education, from two highly successful nursery schools judged as outstanding by Ofsted, and from the Warwickshire teaching school alliance. Amanda will take up the secondment from January 7 2019.