Posted in Bullying, Parental Involvement on Jan 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve received a very heartfelt comment from an East Lothian parent to my recent reply to a “Parent with standards”
An extract reads: “Firstly, your office may well pass down a zero tolerance policy to the schools but it is not what happens on the ground. Bullying is tolerated in the sense of ineffective warnings issued [...]
Posted in Blogging, Bullying, School visits on Nov 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Friday 11th November
8.30-9.45am Education Officers Meeting school based issues were shared and discussed. This meeting is proving very useful in helping us all to keep abreast of whats happening in our schools. We discussed the issue of long term exclusions from schools and how we can all work together to support the child but [...]
Posted in Bullying, Early Years, Finance, Head Teachers, Integrated Children's Services, School visits, Using data on Oct 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Met with David Scott and Donald McGillivary fro the Association of Headteachers Scotland (AHTS) from 8.30 - 10.00am. Very enjoyable meeting and characterised what I hope will be my relationship with unions. We solved a lot of problems and they made some very useful suggestions. One of the key suggestions was that we develop a [...]
Posted in Bullying, Unions on Sep 29th, 2005 2 Comments »
9.00 - 1030am Chief Officers Group for Children's Services - this is a multi-agency group of lead officers in education, health and social work. A lot of the meeting was taken up with information giving sessions but I raised a couple of points in the course of the morning. Firstly, a paper was tabled about [...]
Posted in Bullying, CPD, Leadership, Planning, School visits on Sep 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
Presented the Attainment Action Plan to the Education Committee this morning. I was delighted with the response from councillors. They were particularly taken by the strong upward trend in examination results over the past ten years the fact that we are not resting on our laurels but demonstrating a commitment to improve and accelerate that [...]