Don Ledingham’s Learning Log

I had hoped to finish a number of jobs this morning - most notably the Reporting Absence to Parents Guidelines. I was making good progress when I received a call from a school. I won’t go into the details but I felt it necessitated a home visit to parents. I’ve always believed such visits to [...]

9.00-11.00 Follow up inspection meeting at Ross High School. Met HMIe Grant Mathison along with Willie Carroll (Acting HT), Dorothy Bartholemew (DHT) and Maureen Jobson (Education Officer) to discuss the draft follow up report. Grant made some very positive suggestions and we ended up with what will be a very good report recording significant progress [...]

8.30am-9.30am Met Stuart Hiles of Corporate Development. Stuart told me about the e-learning opportunities for staff and also the project management system he has been developing. I don't think education has ever really mastered the art - or should that read science - of project management. We often just set up groups and say “off [...]

Friday 28th October
8.15am-9.30am Education Officers' Meeting. Wide range of issues arising. We discussed the role of education officers in validating school's self-evaluation. For this validation to be reliable Education Officers need to be “built into” the school.
9.30am Meeting with a Headteacher.
10.00am - 12.00 Termly meeting with District HMIe Grant Mathieson. Alan Blackie and I went [...]