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asbmnewsIssue 10 | September 2015
Draft Agendas2015-2016
Business Network Training Events
New Approach toStaff Absence
Insurance
Updates from our Partners
Summer TermRaffle Prize
Winners
Plus Much More!
nottingham
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you had a very enjoyable Summer and are ready and raring to go for the new Academic Year!
It is going to be a very busy year again and the Nottingham ASBM committee will be working hard to ensure you con-tinue to be supported with up to date news, training and events to assist you.
From the evaluations you completed for us, the meeting in June was extremely successful and we are looking forward to seeing you at our next event on the 6th October 2015. It seemed unanimous that you wanted to stay at Center Parcs so we have agreed a partnership with them for another 12 months. We have also secured some wonderful motivation-al and leading speakers for next year along with some great workshop providers and our themes for the conferences have been derived from what you have asked for. You will see the draft agendas later in the Newsletter in more detail. Essentially we will be focusing on some hot topics that you have said you would like us to cover:-
• Procurement and Efficiency• Maximising Your Team’s Potential• Balancing the Books
In addition to this we will also be offering Business Network-ing and Training Events as follows:-
Autumn
• CEFM Updates – 5 November (TBC)• Managing pupils & staff behaviour
Spring
• Audit Preparation/Probity/Regularity
Summer
• CEFM Update• Inspirational Leadership
From your comments on previous events we have the following feedback for you:-
• A show of hands at the last event gave a positive thumbs up to staying at Center Parcs – so we are staying here for the next year.
• You asked for handouts of presentations rather than electronic so we will continue with those for next year.
OpeningChair’s
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Welcome to the Autumn Term Newsletter
• Any comments regarding catering are always taken up with Center Parcs direct. There will now be paper cups for drinks and more biscuits provided. Sweeteners will also be available. Any requests for other milk, such as soya, please let us know as this can be provided too. New menus will be available soon and comments you have made will be taken on board.
• Car parking – there are always comments on this – unfortunately it is not something we have control over, but instead of driving around, go straight to Corporate Parking where there is always space and have a leisurely walk to the Venue. Anyone with Blue Badge status, let us know so arrangements can be made. • You like tables for eating lunch, but this is not always pos-sible for every event, so extra “poser” tables will be put in to rest your plates on and menus adapted for more finger food at these events.
• Some of you felt the rooms were cold, heating will be reviewed at each meeting.
We try and accommodate the needs and requests/ comments from as many delegates as possible but with over 150 delegates I am sure you can imagine it is hard do sometimes. But we do try our best for you.
For those members who are new to our organisation, or thinking of joining here are a few of the benefits you will enjoy:-
For just £50 annual membership you will have access to the following benefits:
• Meeting colleagues and sharing experiences on topical issues within Educational Business Management
• High Quality Guest Speakers
• Meeting various suppliers with an opportunity for excellent discounts and free gifts
• Further Professional Development from high quality trainers and organisations
• Access to a members only website and forum with valuable support and information
• Discounts on services from partner businesses
• Access to our Business Network Events at a discounted rate
• Use of Center Parcs venue after each meeting
Being a member of this fantastic group is absolutely great value for money and provides the opportunity to save your school or academy a great deal of money on training,
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procurement and staff time, as well as getting great deals from suppliers.
We as a committee work hard voluntarily to ensure that you get the best service and quality events possible, so please make sure your forms are sent back to us as soon as possible if you wish to join us for 15-16. All memberships should be paid before you can book onto any event if possible please, otherwise you may be charged the delegate cost of £42 per event.
We have also secured the following partner and preferred supplier agreements for 15-16:-
Partners
• SAS• CEFM• SAAF
Preferred Suppliers
• ESPO• Reprotec• PS Financials
• We will also be welcoming back Adam Watson from TES Foundation who are re-launching their products this year under a new name.
Thank you to all of them for their continued support – with-out them the group would not be able to provide such fantastic quality events. We also thank Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Council for their continued work with the group.
We look forward to seeing you all at the October meeting and working with you again over the next 12 months.
Karen Bonser, Chair, Nottingham Associationof Business School Management
6th October 2015Theme: Procurement & Efficiency
8.30am Arrival, Registration, Exhibition & Coffee9.15am Welcome & Update from Chair9.30am Partner Updates – CEFM9.45am Sponsor – Learning Space10.00am Motivational Speaker - Steve Head11.00am Coffee, Exhibition & Networking + Well-being Room11.30am Workshops • Leadwell SAS • CEFM • Leasing & Procurement – Adam Watson • DfE Team12.30pm Lunch, Exhibition & Networking + Well-being Room1.30pm Workshops • Leadwell SAS • CEFM • Framework & Procurement – ESPO • DfE Team2.30pm Business Management Professional Standards – Stephen Morales, CEO National ASBM3.00pm Close of Day - Chair
9th February 2016Theme: Maximising Your Team’s Potential
8.30am Arrival, Registration, Exhibition & Coffee9.15am Welcome & Update from Chair9.30am Partner Updates – SAS9.45am Sponsor 10.00am Power to the People – Pam Burrows11.00am Coffee, Exhibition & Networking 11.30am Workshops • Well-being Room • Leadership • Dealing with Conflict – Pam Burrows • Risk Assessment – H&S Team12.30pm Lunch, Exhibition & Networking 1.30pm Workshops • Well-being – Pam Burrows • LGPS • Coaching/Appraisal – Darren Robinson2.30pm Inspired Teams – Pam Burrows3.30pm Close of Day - Chair
14th June 2016Theme: Balancing the Books
8.30am Arrival, Registration, Exhibition & Coffee9.15am Welcome & Update from Chair9.30am Partner Updates – SAAF9.45am Sponsor – Pebble10.00am Motivational Speaker11.00am Coffee, Exhibition & Networking + Well-being Room11.30am Workshops • Sleep – Jakki Pritchard • PS Financials • Keeping your Balance – ASCL • Budget Planning - SAAF12.30pm Lunch, Exhibition & Networking + Well-being Room1.30pm Workshops • Sleep – Jakki Pritchard • Pupil Premium – Karen Bonser & Sue Taylor • Benchmarking – SAAF • Realistic Income Generation – Pebble 2.30pm Well-being – Jakki Pritchard3.30pm Close of Day - Chair
Agendas 2015-16Draft
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We raised £240 for the ‘When you wish upon a Star’
charity with our Summer Raffle so a big ‘thank you’ for
your donations.
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Our Summer Term Prize Winners are listed below and good luck for our Autumn Term Raffle!
Prize WinnerPhoto frame - Tempest Joanne – Abbey Hills Primary, KirkyNottingham ASBM – Center Parc’s Spa Voucher Diane Herron-Wright – Selston HighYou Teach Me – Prosecco Barbara Lynes – St. Patrick’s RC PrimaryESPO – Bic Pens Jason Foster – CEFMTucasi – Prosecco & Chocolates Carole Berrill – Yeoman ParkCEFM – Cava Linda Millership – Sherwood JuniorReprotec – Champagne Adele Wallace – Robert Miles Junior NCC Finance – Spa gift pack Amanda Wayne – Colonel Frank SeelySAAF – Red Letter Day Susan Bowler – Kirby WoodhouseSAS – Goody Bag Jane Fowkes – Nottingham ASBM CommitteeNottingham City IT – Thornton’s Chocolates Marj Masters – Lady Bay PrimaryNottingham City IT – Green & Black Chocolates Jill Jackson – Southwark PriamryParago – Ferrero Rocher Jane Fowkes – Nottingham ASBM Committee Rahmqvist – Registers & Observation Files Andy Elliott – Teacher Active donated them to Adele at Claremont Primary
In addition to the above SAAF had a wine raffle & the winners were:- Jill Jackson (Southwark Primary), Carole Berrill (Yeoman Park), Sadie Fletcher (Ashlea School), Liz Towle (Southglade Primary),
Janet Molyneux (Rise Park Primar7) & Julie Dimaline (Old Basford Primary)
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Summer Term Prize Winners
This year Nottinghamshire County Council will be hold-ing an additional Services for Schools marketplace event on Wednesday 2 December at the Hilton Double Tree Gateway Hotel, Nuthall Road, Nottingham NG8 6AZ.
We would like to invite members of NASBM, together with colleagues who would find this a useful and informative event.
The marketplace will be open between 10am and 3pm for you to drop in at a time to suit you. Here are a few good reasons to attend:
• Over 35 provider stands to find out much more our
range of services.
• Meet our staff face-to-face to discuss any queries.
• Network with other colleagues from other schools.
• Interesting and useful presentations and
demonstrations.
• Give us feedback on how we can improve our services.
• Goodie bag for all attendees.
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• Refreshments and catering samples.
• Free car parking and good transport links via the tram at
Phoenix Park.
As well as all the stands in the main hall, in an adjacent room there will be a series of free presentations and demonstrations throughout the day:
• New Schools Portal (10.30am & 12.45pm) – Find out about the new schools portal which replaces the old Wired portal at the end of September. Learn about how it can help your working day with a demonstration of its new features.
• Interactive Order System (11am & 1.15pm) – a useful refresher or introduction on how to use the system and order your services online.
• Improve your filing (11.30am & 1.45pm) – learn from our award winning Legal Team how they transformed the way they work by creating new systems for storing information and reducing paper in the process.
• Touchscreen demonstration (12noon & 2.15pm) – a fascinating demonstration on the latest state-of-the-art touch screens and how they can be used in the classroom and integrate with tablets for collaborative learning.
To book a place at the event and on any of the above demonstrations, simply complete the short booking form.https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JRS3B8Q
If you have any queries about the event or booking a place, please contact Erica Fletcher on 0115 9772338 or email [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you on the day.
Services for Schools
MarketplaceInvitation to Nottinghamshire County Council’s
Education Services Nottingham (ESN)
ESN is a one stop shop of nearly 60 services available to regional schools and academies.
Segmented into four sections of Business Services, Additional Needs, Facilities Ser-vices and School Improvement there are services to suit every specialism in your school.
Visit our newly branded website at www.eduserve.co.uk to see services that you can handover to our teams of experi-enced and dedicated professionals.
Please contact Frances Rowland or Michelle Gabbitas to arrange a visit to your school to discuss your service requirements.
ESN charges to Academies
From September 2015 we will be charg-ing Academies for their annual services on a monthly basis. This should help with cash flow for the Academies and the service providers. Annual licences and subscriptions will need to be charged in full near the beginning of the school year. When your annual order has been processed; you will receive confirmation, agreement and a payment schedule ex-plaining what will be charged and when.
Free ESN Annual Planner
ESN has now created an annual planner with key dates for your SBM to know for school year 2015-16. These will be mailed out to Nottingham City schools and academies in September 2015. If you are a county school or academy please contact Frances Rowland for your free copy, subject to availability.Get in touch with the ESN Team:
[email protected] or 0115 8764598
[email protected] or 0115 87646401
Schools Advisory Service is delighted to launch our Staff Absence Manage-ment program for schools.
The system, which has been carefully designed in consultation with schools and school leaders, enables managers and staff to save time when logging and managing absences, whilst ensuring accurate records are in place and key trends identified. There are a number of standout benefits, including that the program:
- Allows staff to log their own absences via their schools’ app, which will instantly notify the head teacher via both an email and push notification.
- Gives line managers the ability to contact the absent member of staff via the online system, whilst also maintaining a log of all the communications sent.
- Saves leaders and managers time, including by implementing the Bradford Factor trigger points, automatically identifying sickness patterns, and providing a ‘one stop shop’ for submitting absence claims to Schools Advisory Service.
- Allows line managers to pull off reports, monitor absences and identify trends in absence.
The program is also very easy to use alongside existing systems that schools may have in place. SIMS integration allows you to import your staff details straight from SIMS into the absence management system.
The Absence Management program is available to all SAS client schools and those who purchase the SAS App for their school.
For more information please contact: Tom Plastow on 01773 814400 or email: [email protected]
New Academic Year & New Approach To Staff Absence Management
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Comprehensive, integrated supportCEFM provides expert advisory services led by so-licitors, accountants, HR specialists, occupational health managers and educational practitioners.No other provider in the education sector offers such a broad range of services specifically for schools and academies.
Substantial discounts are available to members of the Nottingham ASBM.
Call 01494 459183Email [email protected] www.cefm.co.uk
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The World Of Spa includes:- Aqua Meditation Room, Greek Herbal Bath, Ice Fountain, Indian Blossom Steam Room, Japanese Salt Room, Japanese Zen Garden, Laconium,
Multi-Sensory Showers, Reflexology Footbaths, Spa Pool, Tyrolean Garden, Turkish Hamman, Tyrolean Sauna, Tepidarium and Waterbeds. Complimentary use of towels and robes are included.
To book, please call 01623 827482Terms and Conditions: This offer is subject to availability and all bookings must be pre booked prior to arrival.
To book, please call 01623 827482, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm. This offer is not available through any other
booking system. This offer does not include treatments. Full payment for each session is required at the time of booking.
SAAF would like to welcome you back to school and hope you are refreshed and relaxed after a lovely summer break…
New Website
In September SAAF will launch its new and improved website, which includes a customer portal allowing us to directly share documents and resources with all of our customers. Details of how to access the new portal will be sent out in our Autumn newsletter.
New SAAF email addresses
SAAF email addresses have changed from 1 September our email addresses will end in @saaf.finance instead of @saafinance.com e.g [email protected] will now be [email protected] Our old email addresses will continue to work for a short time while our customers get used to the new addresses.
Academies are using the new SAAF BPA
The SAAF BPA continues to be well received by our school clients and we are releasing updates on a regular basis for increased functionality. The Academy client version went live in July and we’re now in the process of migrating academies across from the old excel based tool.
Free Half Day Conference
SAAF and PS Financials are hosting a joint event in December for all schools and academies.
AM Session: Academy Landscape – What’s on the Horizon?PM Session: The Changes Facing Maintained Schools – What you need to know.
Look out for your invite later this term.
We look forward to seeing you at the next Notts ASBM Conference, don’t forget to visit our stand to be entered into our free raffle.
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The SBM profession needs a revised reference point that responds to the educational landscape and associated CPD content needs to be relevant and fit for purpose in this new environment.
Schools and academies are expected to identify further efficiencies and paying lip-service to the concept of value for money is not enough. With increased local autonomy schools and academies are expected to review every aspect of their operations and legacy organisational structures.
The Department for Education needs us to provide confidence in a self-improving system that is capable of developing organisational structures that ensure resources and expertise are deployed in the most effective way to ensure optimum learning outcomes for all children.
If we accept that this needs to be achieved within a backdrop of a more challenging fiscal environment and a dilution of local authority support, schools and academies will need to assess their capacity to cope with the new landscape. This will mean; training, recruiting and retaining appropriately experienced and qualified professionals, sharing/combining leadership ca-pacity through collaboration, federations, trusts or mergers, adopting corporate structures sharing/spreading strategic ex-pertise, looking closely at the duplication of effort and expense across schools, embracing technology to improve efficiency and looking beyond education for industry best practice and operational effectiveness.
In response to these new challenges the National Association of School Business Management has developed a national professional standards framework for school business management.
These standards have been developed in conjunction with a range of key stakeholders including, the Department for Education and other government agencies, relevant professional bodies, unions, national associations, universities and practitioners. The responses received to this consultation are over 1,100. The standard draws from a wealth of empirical evidence, international research and industry best practice.
As well as providing the blueprint for effective practice the standards will serve as a tool for recruitment, performance management and career progression. All future school business management related CPD should be underpinned by the standards.
We also hope that schools will choose to use the standards to self-evaluate their own overall operational effectiveness.
The National Association of School Business Management believes that the role deserves professional status. Through the professional standards framework practitioners will be able to apply for formal professional recognition by demonstrating their level of engagement across each section. There will be a formal award for each stage of their professional journey from Affiliate (those aspiring) Member (established practitioners) Fellow (sector leaders). Professional status will require a continued commitment to ongoing CPD, a code of ethics and system leadership.
The new professional standards framework will launch this year at the NASBM national conference on the 18 November 2015. We look forward to sharing this significant launch with those of you that can attend.
Stephen MoralesNASBM Chief Executive
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www.nasbm.co.uk
Details of these events will be emailed to members – so keep an eye out for them.
Autumn 2015
• CEFM Updates – 5 November (TBC)• Managing pupils & staff behaviour
Spring 2016
• Audit Preparation/Probity/Regularity
Summer 2016
• CEFM Update• Inspirational Leadership
To book a place on these training events please go to the Nottingham ASBM website: -
http://nottinghamasbm.co.uk/ and click on the conferences tab.
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Business Network
Training Events
Nottingham ASBM – SUGGEST A LOCAL TRADERWe often have members asking us to invite a particular trader or company to exhibit at our conferences. To help members let us know about a great local company or trader, we have creat-ed a simple online form which can be filled in directly from our website.
You can access the form by navigating to our website (www.nottinghamasbm.co.uk) and follow this route on the menu:
Conferences > Exhibitors and Sponsors
Please make sure the trader or company you are suggesting is aware of the exhibition charges and the facilities – these are clearly detailed on the online form.
At our Summer conference one of our delegates came over all poetic and (anonymously) penned the following which we hope you enjoy!
Foxy Loxy PoemHello my name is Foxy Loxy
This poem may turn out to be poxyI’ll try my best to pass the test
But please be kind to me
Today has been such good funNot once did I want to run
Good friends, good chat, great learning and foodIt really has put me in a good mood
So I’ll be back, it won’t be longWith a sauna next time, don’t get me wrongSo thanks to the team for organising today
Helping to keep the stress at bay
It makes a change each time I comeWe learn so much as well as have fun
Keep it up, keep it goingAnd keep your new ideas flowing
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And finally, for this Autumn editionof our newsletter ...
If you’re looking for somewhere that will really inspire your delegates and encourage fresh creative thinking look no further. Sherwood’s Conference Centre offers first-class facilities along with an experienced events team. The versatile space can accommodate up to 600 delegates theatre style or up to 500 delegates for a lavish gala dinner. With its central location, this Village is an appealing choice for companies looking for a large Conference Centre in the Midlands. The A1 and M1 are within easy reach, while London can be reached in just 80 minutes by train.
Give our sales team a call on 01623 827 538or email [email protected]
COMMITTEE MEMBERS Chair Karen Bonser, The National CofE Academy, Hucknall E-Mail: [email protected]
Vice Chair/Treasurer Jane Fowkes, School Consultant E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
Membership Secretary Trina Ridgill, Colonel Frank Seely School, Calverton E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsorship / Exhibitions Clare Stokes, Newark Orchard Special School E-Mail: [email protected]
Committee Support Vickie Lievesley, Finance Consultant E-Mail: [email protected]
Schools Forum/Business Network Anne Hall, Carlton Central Jnr SchoolEvents/Fundraising & Marketing E-Mail: [email protected]
Nottinghamshire County Kirstie Phillips, Nottinghamshire County CouncilCouncil Liaison/Legal & E-Mail: [email protected] Advice
Nottingham City Liaison/ Frances Rowland, Nottingham City CouncilWorkshop Provision Email: [email protected]
IT Management Craig Wilkie, eLearning Team E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsor/Marketing Support Les Marshall, Schools Advisory Service [email protected]
Sponsor/Business Trainer, Jason Foster, CEFMFinance & HR Partners [email protected]
For further information please email [email protected]
Venue Co-ordinator Erica Fletcher E-Mail: [email protected]
