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School Leadership

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The Board seeks to foster strong relationships with all statutory and community partners in order to develop the best possible education for children in diocesan schools. We work with the Department for Education, Local Authorities, Regional Schools Commissioners, OFSTED and many other bodies to help realise our vision. This includes our involvement in various action groups.

We know our schools well, with advisors visiting regularly and also providing regular networking and training opportunities. The Board is also proud of its pastoral support for schools and headteachers to help them on their own journeys.

Through its advisory service the Board offers a training and development programme aimed at supporting and developing experienced leaders and those aspiring to lead, at all levels. The Board's advisers support governing bodies in the appointment of headteachers, deputies and heads of RE departments (secondary phase).

The effectiveness of the head and deputy head teacher is a critical factor in determining the quality of education that a school provides. The Board of Education runs new leadership seminars to support all diocesan headteachers throughout their first year of headship in a Church of England school.
 

SDBE Partnership Agreement
SDBE helps leaders to be well equipped and encouraged, so that the strong Christian ethos enables all to flourish and fundamentally enhance their school’s outcomes.

  • Headteacher induction programme with bespoke training including new leadership seminars and second year school visits
  • Advice and support on succession planning
  • Pastoral support for Headteachers
  • Leadership development through training opportunities for aspiring Headteachers and deputy Headteachers, team leaders in performance management TLR, middle leaders and NQTs
  • Brokering of school-to-school support, secondments and partnerships
  • Engagement in action groups set up by either the Southwark Diocesan Board of Education or Local Authority
  • Supporting schools in need of additional support with local authority reviews
  • Access to Securing Good programme
  • Information and advice on school self-evaluation and inspections
  • Access to church school effectiveness training
  • Termly Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) network meetings with London Diocesan Board for Schools
  • Termly primary and secondary leadership forums
     

SDHTA

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We are pleased to have a thriving Southwark Diocesan Headteachers' Association (SDHTA), which aims to provide:

  • spiritual, mutual and social support for headteachers, deputy headteachers and assistant headteachers of Church of England schools within the Diocese

  • a forum for discussion of issues particularly relevant to Church of England schools.

  • an effective two way channel of communication between the SDBE and its diocesan family of schools

There is an annual residential conference, as well as Spring and Summer term meetings with the Director and Officers of the SDBE team.
 

Leaders Like Us 

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Leaders Like Us is a multi-faceted programme offered by the National Society for Education for aspiring senior leaders from UKME/ GMH backgrounds, throughout the country, with the aim of enabling them to progress to headship. It is open to teachers and leaders in all schools in England, not just Church of England schools.

To apply to this programme and to find out more information click this link: Leaders Like Us — National Society for Education