Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March saw the Spring 2014 Leading Leaders Network event taking place in Telford, Shropshire. We hosted 19 amazing heads and teachers visiting these great schools: Charlton and Dothill Learning Community Randlay Primary and Nursery Windmill Primary We really looked forward to our visits, talking with…
Round robin notes – Phew!!!
As always, our round-robin session was overwhelming!! We have so much going on, so much to share, so much to learn…and so little time to hear and absorb. We are looking to change the way we handle this session, starting with the Torbay event, in the meantime, here are the…
Approaches to new computing curriculum
We held an informal discussion around approaches to the new computing curriculum. We asked three of our colleagues to share their approach and developments. These brief notes from the discussions will shortly be supplemented by resources from the 3 schools. Jess (Ernehale Junior) resources Deciding not to wait for others, they…
Our visit to The Minster School
Our visit to The Minster School was organised at short notice yet still enthralled and informed the visiting group. Paul (Stevens) and John (Partridge) shared with us their experiences ghaving been through a period of chage; consolidation; review and with further changes in school pending as Phil Blinston prepares to…
Our visit to Ernehale Junior School
We had a fantastic welcome at Ernehale Junior School as part of our autumn term meeting in Nottingham. We began our visit with a guided tour of the school from a group of year 6 pupils, who were very welcoming and spoke eloquently about the school and its use of…
Update from our Nottingham event 7/8 November 2013
22 LLN members had an amazing time in Nottingham visiting great schools, enjoying high quality debates and discussion and of course sharing our own learning. We are pleased to provide you with the wide range of material, content, notes, ideas and resources generated and shared. As you revisit the material…
Our summer 2013 meeting was certainly ambitious…
On July 4 and July 5th we held our Summer 2013 Leading Leaders Network event in London where we also celebrated our fortune at having known and been guided by Jeff Smith from Anson Primary School, who retired at the end of the summer term. In the afternoon of Thursday 4…
LLN in London – July 2013 event – Tollgate visit
We were delighted that Tom Canning and his team at Tollgate hosted our optional visit on 4 July 2013 – it was a very popular option as 19 of us had the pleasure to visit this outstanding school with Teaching School. Our visit Tom and all his staff were extremely…
LLN in London – July 2013 event – Meal for Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith has been a huge part of LLN. His skills, his broad knowledge and deep understanding of what works for learners, teachers and leaders have influenced schools up and down the country – and beyond. He has shaped LLN, given his time and energies freely and is rightly recognised…
LLN in London – Vanessa Pittard, Head of STEM at the Department for Education
Vanessa Pittard, Head of STEM at the Department for Education LLN colleagues were delighted to welcome Vanessa who took time out from her extremely busy schedule to help our understanding of the new National Curriculum before giving us a more in-depth assessment of the issues around Computer Science. We were…