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Below, you will find links to a number of poems and songs based around school governance.
- The Song of Sayonara – my goodbye to the world of education
- To My Green and Yellow Idol – a tribute to Ruth Agnew NLG
- I’m a Governor (from Manchester way)
- The Journey of the Blogi (Five visit Ofsted Towers in 2014)
- The Bare Necessities of Clerks
- Just the Way Ofsted Would Like You to Be – make sure your GB is “Unwavering” and “Uncompromising” in its ambitions for the school. (See the grade descriptors for Leadership and Management from September 2015)
- Governors are doin’ it for themselves – who sets the agendas for your FGB and committee meetings? Is the work of the GB largely driven by the HT?
- “Governance: the first thing …” – an homage to Bobby Goldsboro’s “Summer: the first time” but with some pointers about when something just doesn’t feel right …
- They All Laughed – singalong to Ella Fitzgerald
- This be the Challenge – a salute to Philip Larkin’s “This be the verse”, on the power of FUQ (follow-up questioning)
- RAISE, this is my song
- Didn’t Know, Didn’t Know (Frozen Stiff as a Board)
- Reconstitutions!
- Lacuna Schemata – on the Secretary of State’s powers to bar unsuitable people from being governors
- So Farewell Then … a goodbye to Michael Gove.
- My Old Reading Scheme – on the importance of using phonics for teaching reading
- Perfect Chair – on the subject of chairs who do the right things
- “Governors, Governors! There were never such committed governors!”
- Pale advice, aid all white – As DfE website content was moved across to the Gov.UK site, navigation of new site took a while to be clearly signposted …
- Bye bye Good – on the subject of how an inept chair can affect your final grade
- Bernie (who chaired the hottest GB in the land)
- WHISK – a school development approach in haiku
- (Are You) Wholly Right? – on the sensitive subject of governors who are no longer an asset to the GB ….
- Raising the bar – knowing the latest Ofsted expectations
- The Head and the Governors – a poem about the use of the pupil premium
- The Governors’ Song of D. fE. Rulings (on the question of multiple vice chairs)
- The Pay Policy Disaster
- If (Staff governors)
- We’ll know you so well (Monitoring role)
- Deliberations and delegations
- On the road to Mandat’ry (Induction training)
- Our favourite things
- The Skype Vote Song (Virtual participation, and advice from the clerk)
- Invidus (Election of chair)
- Nothing at all (Governance)
- You are old, my dear clerk
- Paragraphs Lost (The Guide to the Law is withdrawn)
- Blogging by C2G on a Snowy Evening
- Warning (Thinking about change to academy status)
- Assessimandias (Levels to be withdrawn)
- Governing Thoughts from a Board
- I wandered lonely as a clerk (or “DfE-dills”)
- Targets
- On my insight – a tribute to Milton’s sonnet On His Blindness
