Head of Year: getting the best from your team
A professional development opportunity for Heads of Year in secondary schools.

This programme will enable you to:
- focus your time and leadership skills for maximum impact on pupil outcomes
- develop an understanding of how to empower your tutor team
- understand how to manage relationships within your school: upwards, downwards and sideways to achieve your aims
- develop skills to manage powerful dialogues that achieve the outcomes you want.
Learning model
Participants engage in four 2.5hr face-to-face sessions, interspersed with focused tasks carried out in their own schools. Sessions combine bursts of theory with practical activity.
Session details
- What does research tell us about leading effective teams?
- What does research tell us about models of leadership that will make a difference to you in your role?
- The power of active listening and the role of trust
- Managing challenging conversations to get the outcomes you want
- Data for dialogue: a problem solving tool
- Tools to enable you to work strategically: visioning, action planning and tracking impact
- Getting the best from yourself: time management and resilience
- Developing coaching skills to enable you to get the best from your tutor team
Dates
Session one | 25 February 2020 (4pm-6:30pm) |
Session two | 24 March 2020 (4pm-6:30pm) |
Session three | 2 May 2020 (4pm-6:30pm) |
Session four | 9 June 2020 (4pm-6:30pm) |
Fee
£380 per person.
Practical strategies to take and use within my role to help facilitate improvement
Great resources and research, shared in an actionable way. Really good space to take a moment and reflect on my practice and then actively improve it
Image: Head of year. Photo: © Kirsten Holst
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
£380.00
Open to
All
Availability
Yes