Bryan Slater

Director of Education

Distribution

 

All Schools

 

 

 

 

 

This document needs your action as detailed below:

ACTION

Title

Improving recruitment and retention through working together, promoting well-being and tackling teacher workload.

Summary of contents

This document provides practical advice:

·        to support teachers and schools in tackling excessive workload;

·        improve the well being of teachers;

·        foster increased teacher ownership of their work;

·        and create the capacity for managing change in a sustainable way that can lay the foundation for improved school and pupil performance in the future.

Associated documents

Raising Standards and Tackling Workload: National Agreement.

Date

28/1/04

Summary of action required

Staff, managers and governors should use this document as a starting point for discussion and action in their own schools.

 

 

To be completed by

31/03/04

LEA Contact

Ray Leeke

Principal Primary Adviser

(

01603 433276

E-mail address

Ray.leeke@norfolk.gov.uk

Norfolk Self Review reference

 

7. How well is the school led and managed?

8. How well does the school use its resources?

 

Document reference

MI 18/04

 

                                                                                                          

                                                                                                          

Dear Colleague

 

Improving Recruitment and Retention through Working Together, Promoting Well Being and Tackling Teachers’ Workload

 

A joint working party of JCC members and LEA officers has produced the document ‘Improving Recruitment and Retention through Working Together, Promoting Well-Being and Tackling Teachers’ Workload’. This is a very important document because we all want to maintain a motivated teaching force in Norfolk. We hope all staff, managers and governors will use this document as a starting point for discussion and action in your own school.

 

The group would welcome any feedback on this document, particularly identifying examples of good practice that can be shared more widely. Please contact any of them individually to do this. E-mail addresses for members of the working party are on the final page of the document. In addition, a short questionnaire will be issued to all schools in the spring term to ask what has been done in our school as a result of your discussions and, again, to identify and share good practice in this area.

 

The well-being of teachers is a paramount importance to all of us. We hope that this document will help you develop this area of work even further.

 

Yours sincerely

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION