Professional Services Meeting

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Professional Services Meeting 23rd March
2009 Lincolnshire Showground John Sandfield Head
of Service Primary Leadership Development
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Lincolnshire

• 281 primary, infant and junior schools
• Pupils
• Up to 50 19 301-350 15
• 51-100 70 351-400 9
• 101-150 46 400 17
• 151-200 51
• 201-250 26
• 251-300 28

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Lincolnshire!

• 86 Voluntary Controlled
• 32 Voluntary Aided
• 268 Full-time heads
• 15 executive heads
• 2 part-time heads
• 14 schools with no substantive head

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Senior Leaders

• 101 Deputy Headteachers
• 23 men, 78 women
• 91 Assistant Headteachers
• 16 men, 75 women
• 17 ASTs
• 897 post-Threshold
• 8 Fast Track teachers

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Lincolnshire
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Declining pupil numbers

• Year 9 8600
• Year 6 7700
• Reception 6700
• Primary headcount
• Summer 2007 52413
• Spring 2009 51253

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Headteacher Survey

• Headteacher Survey Autumn 2008
• 218 returns to date
• Qualifications
• Retirement plans
• Working with others
• Leadership enrichment

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Age groupings (1) within serving heads (includes,
where possible, details of those who didnt
return survey or include age details)
  1. Below 35 (5   2. 35-40
(16) 3. 41-45 (19) 4.
46-50 (12) 5. 51-55 (23)
 6. 56-60 (16)   7. 60
(1) Age unknown (8)
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Age groupings (2) within serving heads (includes,
where possible, details of those who didnt
return survey or include age details)
1 30s (22) 2. 40s (30) 3. 50s
(39) 4. 60 (1) 5. Age unknown (8)
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Retirement plans
  1. Within the next 5 years (23) 2. No stated
plans (77)
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 National leadership provision
  1. NPQH 2. LPSH 3. Head for the future 4. New
Visions 5. International leadership 6. Future
Leaders 7. Leading from the Middle 8. Leadership
Pathways 9. Other (primarily SLICT, CL,
Headlamp, MA/MSc)
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 Accreditation
1. Ofsted lead inspector 2. Ofsted team
inspector 3. PLP Consultant Leader 4. External
Adviser for HT PM 5. Threshold Adviser 6. SIP 7.
Other, various
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Lincolnshire leadership programmes
Established Leaders Future Leaders
Transforming
Leadership
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Developing leadership provision Headteachers who
expressed an interest in supporting beyond their
school  
1. Supporting new heads 2. Supporting experienced
new heads 3. Delivering INSET 4. Within a
leadership planning group 5. Having a deputy head
shadow work
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Headteachers who expressed an interest in
leadership enrichment provision  
1. Mini research sabbaticals 2. Study groups 3.
Coaching 4. Mentoring 5. Visits to other
schools 6. Meeting with leaders from other
sectors
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Age and experience

• In 1st headship 151
• Up to 26 years
• In 2nd headship 51
• Up to 18 years
• In 3rd headship 13
• Up to 16 years
• In 4th headship 2 In 5th 1 !!

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• 40-48 of our primary headteachers will retire
  between now and 2018

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NPQH

• 296 graduates from Lincolnshire
• 118 now headteachers
• New model..

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What are we doing?

• H4H
• 20 NPQH graduates
• March-October
• Whole cohort/modular sessions
• Headteacher coaches 20 trained

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What are we doing?

• Steps to Leadership
• Hay Group
• Below the waterline
• Senior Leaders pre-NPQH
• Starts in autumn term
• 2 PDA units

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What are we doing?

• Future Leaders
• Pre-deputy head
• John West-Burnham
• Starts Autumn
• Selection process
• Headteacher coaches

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For HTs

• Improved support for new and acting HTs
• Transforming Leadership
• Mini sabbaticals 8 projects, 24 heads
• LM CoTS 15 heads this year
• Primary Challenge.Headteacher mentors
• Secondments - possibilities
• Succession Planning group leadership newsletter
• HT Conference 25/26 February 2010
• New secondment to team 2x2 terms

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What else?

• Leadership Day at the NCSL 9th October
• Senior Leader Steering Group
• New courses
• Executive leadership
• Church School Leadership
• Selection and Interview

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Senior Leader Survey

• Work of SL steering group and Succession Planning
  Group
• Getting to know our aspiring HTs
• Matching their needs with what youve offered
• Not only recruitment
• but retention.

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• Who is/are the best advocate(s) for headship?
• Who is/are the worst?

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Succession Planning whose game?

• LA
• School SLTs and Governing Bodies
• Section in SDP growing your own leaders?
• Mini projects
• Shifting the culture