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Below, you will find links to a number of poems and songs based around the world of education – mainly school governance.
- She Will Survive – an homage to Gloria Gaynor’s classic, highlighting a campaign to equalise pension benefits for the widowers and widows of retired teachers. Why should bereaved husbands receive less than wives, when male and female teacher teachers contribute exactly the same into the Teachers Pension Scheme? (Sign my UK Government petition here.)
- 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
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