From the Head of School Operations Acting Mrs Susan Lazenby
As a first contribution to the newsletter in my temporary, new role in the school as Acting Head of School Operations, it seems fitting to think about change and remaining resilient. I am grateful for this opportunity to join the Executive and humbled by it. Nevertheless, it does come with a significant change and awareness of the best way to manage it. I am sure that the 2021 Guild are, like me, also recalibrating their brains with the changes to their school lives as they embark on their new leadership roles. I shall have to compare notes with them!
receptionists, the support staff, those in the cafeteria and the assurance that there will always be Thai Green Chicken Curry every Tuesday! We go to Chapel every Monday at 9:30 am. In the fourth term, we start our SynchSwim practice. There are many other regular, anticipated events and occasions that mark the passing of the year, and even though this year has been somewhat different, the sameness is comforting.
Then we have the other level where change is a constant. This is where we experience some level of change every day whether it be small or considerable, planned or unexpected. Most of us find it easy to manage the minor changes and more often than not, we adjust with little awareness of how the change has an impact on us or those around us. However, knowing how Our young change does affect us is a good way of working school is out how to cope with it, especially when the growing and, of change is significant. This self-awareness gives us course, with this the capacity to develop resilience in the face of comes change. change. We must cater for the new When we, and students and especially our staff, create more teaching and learning spaces, students face reimagine what is possible, be creative and agile. change, it can be There is a flux in this process, yet some things exciting; it is stay the same. How can we harness this to our energising and advantage? motivating. For others it evokes fear and anxiety, they feel A school is an interesting place that, in my demotivated or exhausted. Most of us go estimation, has different levels of operation. The through the whole range of emotions as we foundation is the expected: our daily routine transition from one state to the next. I think with the timetable. For teachers, the constant is that it is in this transition phase that we, and the students in our classrooms, and for our students, can build our resilience. In a students, it is those who teach them. We also recent leadership course, we learnt about have the people we rely on daily such as our change management and the work of William 3
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