This blog was originally compiled as a personal resource bank, and is now offered to governors, clerks, school leaders and teachers with an interest in school governance. The contents are as current as one hobbyist blogger can make them, but please let me know of any items that are incorrect or now out of date. Posts are generally based on material found on the Internet, with minimal personal commentary. Acknowledgements and links have been given where possible. (I am grateful to contributors who have provided additional details or interpretation of legislation.) Any opinions expressed or implied are my own.
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Who is Clerk to Governors? I am a jobbing Clerk to Governors for several schools, with a teaching background in various educational settings across the UK. I am interested in the dynamics of school leadership, and in keeping up to date with educational matters, not particularly political, but with a desire to ensure that the focus of education is on what children need for their intellectual and creative development, personal sense of achievement and lifelong economic success. (This may or may not include the number of sub-levels they are deemed to have progressed in a term …)
I use the name Clerkie Kent for my “Clerk to Governors” persona.
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Hi
Just discovered you! I am clerk to a few Bristol schools. Thanks for all your to support Clerks and Governing bodies – also nice to see there are other clerks out there as we all work so remotely.
Do you have any experience of academies converting using Co-op Mem & Arts?
Cheers
Jo F
Hi Jo
Thanks for your kind comments! No, I don’t have any direct experience of converting academies – will be keeping an ear out for what the differences are when clerking academies, so any feedback from other clerks would be very welcome.
Clerkie
Hi CtG,
I am a long time governor of a Norfolk village primary school. I picked up your link on Twitter and have been a fan over the past few months. I have found some of the material you and various posters on your blog have put up on the new Ofsted regime invaluable.
And when I say ‘invaluable’ the word is not that far off the mark in as much as under the new regime our school moved up from a Satisfactory grading to Outstanding !
I shall be looking for more ideas
Congratulations on your Outstanding result! Glad to be of help (though I recognise that I cannot claim ALL the credit …
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I am a Clerk to two schools and CoG to a third. I used to clerk 15 schools for the LA. I have clerked for four schools that converted to academies. I am enjoying the blog and twitter feed although am yet to be convinced on the poetry…