Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	All Headteachers

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ACTION	Title	Autumn Term 2004 Meetings for Headteachers with Director of Education
	Summary of contents	Additional agenda item and accompanying paper for above meetings.
	Associated documents
	Date	28 September 2004
	Summary of action required	Inform Melanie Waite which meeting you will be attending if you have not already done so
	To be completed by	4 October 2004
	LEA Contact	Melanie Waite	(	01603 223397
	E-mail address	melanie.waite@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	7. How well is the school led and managed?
	Document reference	MI 181/04

Dear Colleague

Autumn Term 2004 Meetings for Headteachers with Director of Education

I wrote to you with the dates for this term's headteacher meetings. Since then I have added a further agenda item about SEN. The paper for this is attached. The meetings begin at 4.30pm with refreshments available from 4.15pm.

Tuesday 5^th October	Easton College
Tuesday 12^th October	Reepham High School
Wednesday 13^th October	Attleborough High School
Tuesday 9^th November	PDC King’s Lynn
Thursday 18^th November	PDC Norwich
Tuesday 30^th November	The Imperial Hotel, Great Yarmouth

I propose the following agenda items:

Local Issues

· For local Headteachers to raise via your local School Improvement Support Officer.

Norfolk Issues

· Capital Projects – a presentation by Mike Britch, Managing Director of NPS Consultants Ltd

· Introducing Professor Chris Husbands – Dean of the School of Education, UEA.

· Excellence in the Provision of Special and Additional Educational Needs – Graham Newell will introduce his paper.

National Issues

· Every Child Matters

· DfES 5 Year Strategy

If you have not already done so, would you please inform Melanie Waite of which meeting you will be attending, on telephone 01603 223397, fax 01603 223838 or preferably by email to melanie.waite@norfolk.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION