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Operations Manager recognised at National Awards
Thu 14 Dec 2023The National School Awards recognises, celebrates and rewards senior leaders, schools and multi-academy trusts for their dedication and hard work. There were 8 different award categories, each one specifically designed to reward hard workers, innovators and exceptional school leaders across the education sector.
Fyonna Lammas, Operations Manager was a finalist in the School Business Leader of the Year category which celebrates an exceptional school business leader who has radically reinvented the perception of the traditional school business manager within not just their setting but across their local region and is a trailblazer for projecting professionalism. They also show an exceptional ability to deliver excellent resource management, ensuring financial viability whilst still improving pupil outcomes.
It was a huge achievement for Fyonna to be recognised as one of 4 finalists.
Fyonna attended the awards, held at the House of Lords, along with Susanna Taylor, Russell Dalton and over 250 education pioneers. Damian Hinds, Minister of State for Schools from the Department for Education, provided a keynote speech.
Fyonna commented ”It was a wonderful surprise to be nominated and even better to be recognised as a finalist. Going to the House of Lords was an absolute privilege and an evening I'll never forget.”
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Rivers National Thought Leaders
Mon 04 Dec 2023Members of the Rivers Central team joined a wealth of renowned specialist speakers at this year’s Institute of School Business Leaders (ISBL) National Conference.
The conference for the professional body of School Business Leaders looks at the future of education delivery, responding to the current priority topics for leaders, with climate change, sustainability, inclusivity, personnel management, and effective resource management running across all sessions.
Russell Dalton, Fyonna Lammas and Susanna Taylor were guest speakers at this year’s ISBL National Conference.
Susanna presented a finance workshop on financial pooling. Whilst Russell and Fyonna delivered an operational leadership workshop that addressed ‘the elephant in the room’ school mergers/acquisitions.
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UNISON Stars in Our Schools award winner
Fri 01 Dec 2023Tracey Smith, Pre-school practitioner at Cherry Orchard Primary School was selected as one of four winners in the UNISON Worcestershire Branch ‘Stars in Our Schools’ Competition.
The “Stars in Ours Schools” Competition, runs every year and recognises school support staff who are so often the unsung heroes in our schools and play an integral part in the education of children.
Tracey was nominated because “in everything she does she has the children at the heart of it and it is all done to aid their holistic development”.
Tracey has helped build Little Cherries Pre-School into the success that it is today. “She uses her spare time to look for resources for the children and often spends her own money on those resources too. Her commitment to the children is to be commended and even in the most stressful times, Tracey always has a smile on her face. She brightens up everyone’s day.”
UNISON Branch Secretary, Jamie Edwards-Taylor commented “This year’s competition saw some amazing nominations, and it was a very difficult decision our branch team had to make when selecting the winners. However, we were really impressed and moved by the description of your [Tracey’s] nomination.”
Tracey was presented with her award by The Mayor of Worcester, Cllr Louis Stephen at an Awards Ceremony held at The Hive in Worcester.