- Learning about life under the sea
- Pupils follow their dreams
- Hunstanton’s Smithdon High School makes ‘satisfactory’ progress according to Ofsted
- Inflation day for innovative roof at Lowestoft school
- Pupils delight at new-look school for St Germans, near King’s Lynn
- Mixed bag of GCSE results
- Fairstead: Class clowns in a spin at school’s circus day
- Hunstanton: School is going the right way, says head
- SCHOOL DAYS: Denver a happy place to be - SEE PICTURES
NCC Governors e-Courier
As a school governor in Norfolk, you probably find yourself using the Internet more and more for governor work. If so, you might want to add your support to the 'Say Yes to Better Broadband' campaign which the EDP is running in partnership with Norfolk County Council and encourage other governors, staff and parents at your school to do likewise.
The project aims to bring superfast 30Mbps broadband to 90% of the county, and a minimum 2Mbps for everyone. At a stroke, it could overturn one of the biggest obstacles facing many of our isolated communities and schools today.
This will only happen with the right amount of private investment. The campaign asks everyone to register their interest in seeing this new network provided. This will take no more than two minutes of your time and will commit you to absolutely nothing. The process collects basic information for statistical purposes, and you can tick the opt-out box at the end if you would prefer this data not to be shared with ISPs.
To support the campaign simply go to : www.norfolk.gov.uk/sayyesnorfolk
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The awards will presented at a ceremony in June and must be submitted by 30th April 2012.
Norfolk County Council finance team are running specialist courses for governors on the details of school finance. These courses cover:
These courses are free to schools who purchased the Finance Support Package 2012/2013. More details and book a course here >>>. |
This year was the first year that the current Secretary of State attended and his announcement focused on reforming the way that ICT is taught, as his view is that the existing curriculum has left children “bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers”. A full copy of Michael Gove’s speech and additional commentary is available from the DfE website and those interested in promoting Computing At School, the main theme of the speech, can visit the Norfolk Computing At School site at www.groupspaces.com/ncas.
The election of the primary governor representatives for Norfolk Schools Forum has now been concluded and the two elected representatives are
Congratulations to them and thank you to the other candidates for putting themselves forward and to everyone who voted. |
Nominations are now being requested for the third annual Norfolk School Governor and Governor Clerk Awards. Nominations can be made by any governor, member of staff or headteacher and are an important part of recognising excellent governance across our county.
For those with an interest in ICT in schools, January always begins with a visit to the - Preventing the spread of infections in schools
- Norfolk Computing At School
- Stephen Adamson elected as chair of NGA
- Governor Services Training Programme
- Aviva Governor Network
- NGN Chair’s Report 2010-11
- NGN AGM and November Conference - Making SENse of the Future
- SEN Changes in Norfolk
- Developing a Norfolk Network of Schools
- Schools Forum Election - Autumn 2011