SWIFT UPDATE | Issue 28 | November 2024

We are pleased to bring you this next UPDATE. 

Associate & Strategic Leader of Teaching & Research Schools (ESW) Roger Pope CBE muses on how politics sits within leadership following a post-budget discussion about inheritance tax:

"The very best school leaders that I know lead from a position of deeply held beliefs and values.
It is this passion which gets them out of bed in the morning and enables them to motivate others.  It drives the sense of authenticity that enables others to trust them."

Find out more about the the new Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator's (SENCO) National Professional Qualification (NPQ) in which 85 Programme Members are currently engaged. You can also learn about Social Stories following the recent workshop led by South West Autism Support Services and be guided to starting a story with your pupils and young people. 

If you have yet to do so, remember to sign-up for the Autumn Term Leadership Forum on: Thursday 21 November 2024 from 1530 – 1715 (online). Ofsted Assistant Regional Director, Sarah McGinnis will be sharing updates and opportunity for Q&A, whilst Professor (Dr) Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Dean of Place
and Social Purpose and Professor of Education, Plymouth Marjon University will consider place-based disadvantage and the way it reduces coastal and rural school access to resources, especially teachers. 
FREE for SWIFT Members and £35 for all other colleagues, book your place here

Director of Kingsbridge Research School, Jon Eaton provides clarity on schools as complex adaptive systems: "As school leaders will know all too well, there are no end-points to complex problems, where we can confidently down tools and declare things solved. For instance, literacy improvement in schools is not something that can be declared ​“done.”" 

Our sponsor SchoolPro TLC provides some excellent timetabling for success advice for those colleagues tasked with this mission and who might be already thinking about next year. Valid point by point tips for clear planning.

Meanwhile our other sponsors have been busy.
You can see some of Educatering's seasonal and cultural foodie goodies with children hands-on in the kitchen, and find out how Exeter Supply Partnership can support your primary teaching supply needs. You can download ONVU Learning's new White Paper "Unleash your Teachers’ Superpowers" that outlines strategies for fostering high-performance teaching and learning environments. 

We wish you all an enjoyable and rewarding half term and thank you for taking the time to read this issue.

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