Hertfordshire School Governors
By governors for governors
The HASG are proud to reveal the Winners of this Year’s Awards which were presented at the Hertfordshire Governors Annual conference on Saturday 11th November at Robertson House Stevenage.
This year the judging panel agreed to seven finalists, one more than originally expected. The winners are: Continue reading “Outstanding Governors 2017”
The Autumn 2017 Heads & Governors’ Update takes place on Tuesday 21st November, at Beales Hotel in Hatfield, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm. These updates provide:
The Agenda Continue reading “Autumn 2017 Heads & Governors’ Update”
Andrew Doran attended an HfL course a while ago and, building on his experience of this course, has written the following illuminating article about how he went about recruiting. This article has been reposted with permission; Andrew often posts commentary, random thoughts (such as this humdinger “Does the Friendly Giant really need the prefix ‘Big’? Isn’t that just a given? “), and Continue reading “Recruiting School Governors”
Robert GordonHertfordshire County Council has announced the death of Robert Gordon, leader of the County Council since 2007.
Following this very sad news Robert’s wife, Susie, has been in touch to confirm funeral arrangements as below:-
The funeral will take place on Monday 30 October at 2.00pm at St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1BY. Light refreshments will be served afterwards. Susie has said that all are welcome to pay their respects. Continue reading “Robert Gordon”
HASG Summer Update 2017As previously advertised, the Summer Update for Heads and Governors, which was arranged by the HASG, took place on 21st June. The briefing covered several topics and was lead by Marcus Cooper the Senior Education Manager in Hertfordshire. (Who we learned was moving on to pastures new at the end of term).
Marcus gave us updates from the Herts perspective covering Ofsted the DfE and Safeguarding. Debbie Orton, the Head of Integrated Service for Learning, also took a slot to talk about the ISL reorganisation. You can download the presentations by clicking the following link:
One item covered was the division of responsibilities between HCC and HfL; the following booklet might be of use in understanding the distinctions:
A selection of news items of interest for governors addressing threat from bombs, SEN, supply teachers, removal of school governors, coasting schools and a manifesto gap.
25 May 2017 – Schools Week is reporting that schools have been reminded to keep staff up-to-date with procedures in their individual plans for emergencies after a school was Continue reading “NewsBytes – Bombs, Governors & Statistics”
Representatives from Governing bodies are invited to attend the next Headteacher & Governor briefing.
You may be aware that in early 2016 we held the first joint Headteacher & Governor briefing. Marcus Cooper, and his team, hold regular Headteacher updates and we have worked in conjunction with them to deliver one additional briefing aimed specifically at school governors.
Please feel free to join us on Wednesday 21st June 2017 at 6.00pm, at Continue reading “Headteacher & Governor Briefing – 21st June 2017”
FrontFoot News – March 2017These March 2017 FrontFoot news updates cover a range of educational areas of interest including matters of policy, media, research and statistics. This report includes items about 2-tier GCSEs, more free schools, SEND, tracking of social media, writing assessments, careers, breakfast clubs and much more. Click the links below to go to specific categories of interest; when there, the headings link to the full article. Continue reading “FrontFoot News – March 2017”
Reducing Teacher WorkloadThe Department for Education have provided an update on their policy towards reducing teacher workload. Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, has issued the following letter introducing this:
Dear Colleague,
REMOVING UNNECESSARY WORKLOAD FOR TEACHERS
We are committed to removing Continue reading “Reducing Teacher Workload”
The HASG are pleased to announce that nominations have opened for the School Governor Awards 2017. We aim to celebrate outstanding and distinguished service by school governors in Hertfordshire. Continue reading “Outstanding Governor Awards 2017 Nominations Open”