The New Education Landscape
The Annual Governors’ and Trustees’ Annual Conference – Why should you attend? There is a saying that “good things come in threes”. Governors will be familiar with the three core functions of the Governing Board, set out by the Department for Education, which should underpin everything they do. This year, we have taken these three …
Annual General Meeting November 2023
Thank you to our community of schools and partners for coming and celebrating 11 years of Newham Partnership Working at our AGM recently. After over 50 years working in Newham and more than 30 years as a school governor, Ellen Kemp received the Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to education in Newham, which we are …
Brunch & Discuss 08 November 2023
Each term we hold a Brunch & Discuss forum for our school data protection representatives. The objective is to inform delegates of any regulatory changes and provide up to the minute topical news. At this forum we spoke about the risks of sending bulk emails and the ICO viewpoint. We had a guest speaker, Peter …
Celebrating MAT Excellence
Recognising the work of multi-academy trusts up and down the country The Education Space was proud to sponsor the MAT Excellence Awards organised by Optimus Education on 29 June 2023. The inaugural awards ceremony and gala dinner held at The Park Plaza in London provided opportunity to highlight achievements and demonstrate the impact trusts have …
DPO Summer Brunch and Discuss
Data Compliance hosted their summer term Brunch and Discuss on 14th June which is the termly forum to provide schools with current data protection news and further guidance on data protection practices. One of the subjects covered was AI and the issues from a data protection point of view. The power of AI was demonstrated …
A Celebration of Newham Volunteers
National Volunteers’ Week closed with a celebration of Newham Volunteers in Plashet Park on Saturday 3 June 2023, which included a celebration of the work of school governors and trustees. On the stage, long-standing School Governor with many years of service, Cllr Neil Wilson, spoke of the role of Governors being strategic leaders in schools. …
Spring Network Computing Meeting
At the Spring 1 Computing Network Meeting, eleven Computing Leads from around the borough gathered on a Friday afternoon to eat sandwiches, drink tea and discuss online safety. After previous half-termly sessions on ‘Preparing for an Ofsted Deepdive in Computing’ and ‘Sharing Best Practice in Assessment’, this Session was about how to approach the important …
Showcasing Successful Partnerships
Governors’ and Trustees’ Annual Conference Report November 2022 Schools do not exist in isolation. They are part of a larger system. Therefore, it is only right that, as system leaders, their Governors and Trustees should naturally not only focus on their own schools as organisations, but also on how their schools fit into the system …
AGM - 10 Year Anniversary
This year NPW celebrated its 10 year anniversary! The occasion was marked at our AGM earlier this month where we were joined by our school members for food and drinks. It has been an incredible journey with some real highs but we have also faced some difficult challenges. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all …
Governors’ and Trustees’ Annual Conference 2022
The theme of this year’s Newham Governors’ and Trustees’ Annual Conference: Governor Effectiveness: Inclusive and Nurturing Schools seemed extremely well-timed. Against the national context of rising mental health and anxiety needs in schools, increasing complex special educational needs, increasing primary pupil exclusions and the surfacing of informal exclusions, the need to explore and understand how …
