Norfolk School Leaders Conference 2024
Brought to you by Educate Norfolk and VNET Education CIC
The opening keynote: Punk Leadership – Keziah Featherstone FCCT
School leadership is becoming awfully compliant; flat pack headteachers and homogenised leadership teams. When did all this conformity ever bring about any lasting change? Drawing parallels between the fiercely independent punk spirit and the demands of modern school leadership, Keziah offers a fresh perspective on how to navigate the complexities of the education system while staying true to your values and vision and making it fit for your school and context.
Keziah Featherstone FCCT
The closing keynote: Keeping them on the bus – Vic Goddard
How do we create, maintain and develop a positive culture in our schools in a world that is undoubtedly more angry? As school leaders we have been one of the few professionals that the parents/carers of our students have had access to. This has led to us being involved in more and more things that are not directly about learning in the classroom. In his keynote Vic will share how Passmores has dealt with these additional pressures and how against the tide, the wider community has come along with them, resulting in Passmores being by far the most oversubscribed school in town.
Vic Goddard
Date: 17 October 2024
Time: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: Norwich City Football Club, Carrow Road, Norwich, NR1 1JE
150+VAT
Workshops
Wayne Harris
Workshop 1: Inclusive Attendance
During the workshop, Wayne Harris (CEO and Founder of Inclusive Attendance) will explore the August 2024 DfE statutory Working Together to Improve School Attendance paper. This session goes beyond mere compliance, offering insights into surpassing expectations with the unique Inclusive Attendance accredited programme, the first of its kind in the UK. Participants will engage in a comprehensive review of their current practices using the online self-assessment tool and explore an attendance strategy which fosters a culture of collective responsibility. Additionally, Wayne will provide a brief introduction to Inclusive Governors, the sole accredited CPD Attendance programme designed for Governors and Trustees.
James Heale
Workshop 2: Resilient Leadership
In this practical workshop, James will explore how we can make this bonkers job of school leadership doable and more importantly, enjoyable over the long term. Using his insights from over ten thousand hours of coaching James will share some of the common challenges faced by leaders across the country and offer some takeaways to help you thrive. Context is key and not everything works for everybody but we are confident that this session will provide tangible ideas and tools for you, and those you line manage, to put into practice immediately.
Keziah Featherstone
Workshop 3: Recruiting and retaining women in leadership
Teaching is experiencing a recruitment and retention crisis and we know that the largest demographic we are haemorrhaging from the profession is women in their thirties. We need these valuable colleagues to move into and stay in critical leadership roles, whether they are job shares, part-time or flexi-working in other ways. This workshop examines how inclusive and creative practices can improve recruitment and retention of women.
Vic Goddard
Workshop 4: Who are they? What are we doing?
There is no doubting that our children have found living through a global pandemic to be life changing. Attendance, relationships with families and outcomes have taken a hit for many of us. So what are the challenges we are facing with our current young people and those that are coming? What is unique about the offspring of two millennials? A chance to reflect and start to plan.
