The dreaded phonecall

[GrumbleDook]

Yep ... we had it yesterday.

We have been waiting for it for a while, but why on earth right now. I was meant to be taking holiday on Friday (off to a concert in Manchester in the evening) and spending the day doing nice things at home ...

So my external visits for today are cancelled, my day off is cancelled, my whole weekend is cancelled ...

I will be sticking the details of what happens to the team, what work they have to do to prepare, what their impact is, etc ...

I have to be interviewed as a matter of course (pleasures of being manglement) and hopefully I will be able to get a good insight in what they are looking for in schools with regards to ICT and supporting IT.

[ChrisH]

Are you talking about BSF?

[StewartKnight]

I assume you mean ofsted. I wasn't interviewed when they came, they concentrated solely on teaching staff

[Simcfc73]

Interpol? CIA? MI5? Men in Black?

[_Bob_]

LOL Grumbledook. Which concert would this be? Honestly now...

[indiegirl]

*has an inkling of which concerts are on in Manchester on Friday night* ;-)

We weren't bothered in the slightest when Ofsted/HMI (or however they're known now) came in.. or maybe that's because they wanted to keep them away from the NM... or possibly from me *evil grin*

[ChrisC]

We had ours before christmas, didn't come anywhere near us..... As has been said above, they concentrated on teaching. Mind you, we don't have a network manager, so there's no management issues.

Chris

[russdev]

*has an inkling of which concerts are on in Manchester on Friday night* ;-)

i dont even dare mention name of the band here poor Tony...

We had ours before christmas, didn't come anywhere near us..... As has been said above, they concentrated on teaching. Mind you, we don't have a network manager, so there's no management issues.

Chris

Tony is a slut sorry mean slt ; ) as he is a ast head (you see i was good) so it means he had to be interviewed


Russ

[CyberNerd]

Tony is a slut sorry mean slt ; ) as he is a ast head (you see i was good) so it means he had to be interviewed

lol, we call those assistant head people As*heads - we have even labled switches/documentation to this effect - good job no-one reads it

[GrumbleDook]

*has an inkling of which concerts are on in Manchester on Friday night* ;-)

i dont even dare mention name of the band here poor Tony...

But Robbie is rumoured to be turning up. I'm not sulking ... honest :-(

We had ours before christmas, didn't come anywhere near us..... As has been said above, they concentrated on teaching. Mind you, we don't have a network manager, so there's no management issues.

Chris

Tony is a slut sorry mean slt ; ) as he is a ast head (you see i was good) so it means he had to be interviewed


Russ

Yep ... I will be interviewed ... rereading our SEF at the moment ... making sure I have all the facts and documentation to hand so that they can go off and track things.

[NetworkGeezer]

i dont even dare mention name of the band here poor Tony...

Hmmm ... will they be any good if Robby isn't in it anymore

Tony is a slut sorry mean slt ; ) as he is a ast head (you see i was good) so it means he had to be interviewed

A spy among us :idea:

[russdev]

lol yes tony is smt team but he is non teaching memeber of staff who is on smt..

What did we work it out to be one of 3 in the uk

Russ

[ChrisC]

A non-teaching assistant head??? When did that start happening?

Chris

[ChrisH]

When the need for someone with a high level IT skills and experience is needed in senior management

[GrumbleDook]

Nah ... there are starting to be quite a number of non-teaching assistant heads now ... quite often they are the Business Manager, but in some schools you also get IT Director / Director of ICT / eLearning Manager / and so on ...

I think there were around 20 at my last count.

And OFSTED aren't phased by it anymore either ... they have just shrugged their collective shoulders and gone "yes? and?"

So ... there is a new target to aim for chaps and chappesses.