Letter from the Committee

 

Dear Colleagues

 

Can you believe we’ve already reached the launch of our next RPHA conference?

 

I am sure, like me, you are still using the lessons we learned from the huge success of the 2014 Resilience Conference. The conference has never seen such a positive response as last year and one of the key comments from delegates was the acknowledgment of how much the conference made us feel that RPHA is recognised as a professional body of colleagues coming together to learn.

 

As leaders, we are constantly looking to drive improvement and achievement for our children and teams, whilst working within a climate of changing goals and demands on our time and our schools’ resources. With all of this going on, do we actually ever have the time we really crave as leaders to communicate, to have space to think, to be in a safe space with our leadership teams to discuss and be inspired, and to start creating ripples of change in mind-set and outcomes when we return to school?

 

The Conference offers this to each of us; we are provided with the time to become energised at the start of the school year, meet colleagues and learn from leading academics and school improvement specialists…and all for less than attending a day’s conference in London!

 

The Committee have been tireless in working through over 200 speakers to create a shortlist who met the feedback and requests from last year, whilst seeking those who will help us to ride the waves of change.  This year sees a series of speakers and workshops which we feel will all have a critical impact on improving our schools and the lives of our children.

 

Each and every day we create waves of change and, on behalf of the Committee, we encourage you to book your places quickly so that we can continue to benefit from this unique event – an event where we all come together as a professional group (headteachers, deputy heads and possibly other school leaders) so that we can all continue creating those waves...

 

Sarah Bergson

 

Joint Chair of Reading Primary Headteachers' Association