We hope your start to this school year has been successful, and staff, students and families have now settled comfortably back into the rhythm of school life. 

There have been lots of changes across the county, we have welcomed 30+ new Headteacher and Heads of School into post, the Teaching School Hubs both have new interim leads that are bringing some exciting developments, the school and community zone teams are beginning to get out and about supporting schools and we have created some new roles to enable more school leaders to contribute to the improvement of the entire landscape, EXCITING!

Over the next few weeks there are lots of opportunities to come together. We have the Autumn term Norfolk School Leaders Update, formerly Leadership Update on 1st November and then the second session of Headteacher Induction on 15th November. Other providers such as the LA, VNET and many of the hubs around the county are alos holding events. We hope to see you at many of these. 

Our first Norfolk School Leaders' Update (formely Leadership Update) of ther year is on 1st November, at Sprowston Manor Hotel. Please book here if you have yet to do so 

Having listened to your feedback, the first hour is exclusively secondary focussed, the second hour is for joint items and the third hour is primary focussed. We hope this will better meet the needs of our leaders. You are of course welcome to join us for as much or as little as is relevant to yourself. The session begins at 8:30am and ends at 12pm. 

The agenda timings are being finalised, it will be shared on our webpage and via email to those that have booked after half term. 

We are covering a wide variety of topics this session and had lots of different speakers. At the end of the session the NAHT will be joining us and they invite NAHT members to stay on for lunch and the AGM. If you are not currently a member but would like to be you are also welcome to stay. 

We hope to see you there.

Voting for the new Chair of Educate Norfolk closes Thursday 19th October at 4:30pm. If you have yet to vote please do so by clicking here. If you are not sure please vote again, votes are time and date stamped and only the first will be counted.  

There is still time to apply for one of our other new roles, which close on Friday 20th October. 

Vice Chair, School Leader Support, see here for more information

Vice Chair, External Liaison, see here for more information

We are always looking for new members to join our phase specific executive committees, the commitment is 1.5-2 hours every 6 weeks. Please contact Kirsty if you are interested.