Stockport LA with the help of Govas held their yearly conference on Saturday 7th March 2015

Stu Foster (Govas) Phil Beswick (Director of Education)

At the start - Introduction presentation from Andrew Webb (corporate Director of Services)
Keynotes from the presentation

Slides from the workshops, click on the relevant highlighted links (make sure you have powerpoint installed alternativly try  Openoffice or Libreoffice (both free))

1. Governor recruitment, training and development.
recruiting effective governors & developing and embedding a training and development culture
Andy Kent

2. ICT.
Innovative use of IT in schools
Alex Findlay

3. Effective collaboration and evaluation.
how schools can collaborate, the benefits that would follow, and how we, as governors, can measure this.
Chris O'Shaughnessy

4. Life without levels – PRIMARY
How do you judge progress? - the questions we should be asking and evidence we should be looking for in the post-levels era
School improvement

5. Life without levels – SECONDARY
How do you judge progress? - the questions we should be asking and evidence we should be looking for in the post-levels era
School improvement

6. Closing the gap.
Get the latest advice from a current HMI on strategies for closing the performance gap and how to measure and evaluate them
HMI Allan Torr