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Saturday Mar 12, 2011

GMHAA (or Getting My Head Around Acronyms)

So, it's official; having been appointed formally appointed at last night's meeting I am now a school governor.

So how do I feel? Well, the really good news is that I'm still very excited about the whole thing. On the other hand, I feel slightly daunted.

Why daunted? Well, daunted by the number of things there are to learn that largely (at the moment) seem like incomprehensible gobbledygook. There's quite a lot of things that I just don't understand, so a lot of question asking and lots of information to be taking in.

Acronyms are a good case in point, something we are all guilty of using, and only realise how reliant we are on them when someone else doesn't follow. I've decided to start an acronym glossary, which is growing quite quickly:

SIP - School Improvement Partner

SDP - School Development Plan

MPSF - Manor Park Soft Federation

SA - School Action

SAP - School Action Plus

BMR - Budget Monitoring Report

HTR - Head Teacher's Report

I could go on, but I'm sure you're getting the point. Suffice to say, I have got a fair few more that I've not included here, which isn't even to mention the one's I already knew.

It seems I've got a lot to learn, about the way education works in this country, let alone about the school itself. But that's one of the great things about so many different forms of volunteering. Not only do I get to do something extremely worthwhile, to give something back, but I also get to learn new skills and gain new knowledge.

One of the beauties of volunteering is that so often we get as much, or even more, out of it than we put in.

Posted by Will ( 8:28 AM )
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