Budgets - budgets
Nov 17th, 2005 by Don Ledingham
9.00-10.00 Maureen Grainger and Claire Sime of our Educational Psychology Service showed me some of their work relating to summarising educational theories and learning styles. This section of our website has the potential to provide easily accessible and useful information to teachers about learning theory.
After a brief chat and demo' Claire and Maureen worked on putting up some of information up on the site. Many thanks to them both.
10.00-11.15 Departmental Budget Meeting with Councillors Maureen Talac and John Ross. Agreed to prepare a number of briefing papers relating to issues which we need to resolve prior to setting next years budget.
11.30-12.00 Policy and Procedures Review Panel agenda meeting with Councillor Margaret Libberton. We agreed the agenda for the meeting which enables councillors to scrutinise the business of the department. I'll be making presentations relating to 5-14 results, individual secondary school results, anti-bullying policy and MIDYS standardised test.
12.30-2.00 Finally caught up with my paperwork
2.00-3.00 Met with Alan Borthwick and Derek Haywood to prepare for my meeting tomorrow with Phillip Rycroft Head of Schools division at the Scottish Executive. We are keen to explore a number of budget issues with him. Anthony Gillsepie joined us for part of the meeting to explain more about GAE (Grant Aided Expenditure) - the money which comes into the council from the Executive and its relationship with final budgets allocated to education. I think I'm just starting to get my head around this - it's only taken four months.
3.00pm-4.00pm Department budget meeting with representation from finance, pupil support, early years and schools division. Useful discussion about budget allocations and how various predicted overspends can be covered
4.00 Quick chat with Paul Raffaelli.
4.30pm Pete Gray popped in to discuss exc-el - Pete helped me to enable the comment facility - see below. Without Pete's help and patient advice exc-el would not be in existence.
5.50pm Hometime
5.45pm
