Headteacher Breakfast Meetings - Spring 1 - Leading SEND in a specialist setting
Description
Our Breakfast Meeting sessions offer a valuable opportunity for schools to host colleagues and share effective practice within their own settings. Observing successful approaches first-hand gives school leaders meaningful opportunities for reflection, and Camden schools are uniquely well placed to benefit from peer-to-peer learning through open discussion and observation in comparable contexts.
Each half term, a schedule of host schools and dates is shared (with some variation due to school holidays). Schools take turns to host the meetings, which run from 8:00 to 9:00am. Over coffee, the host school presents on the agreed focus topic, sharing practice from their own context. At 9:00am, participants are invited on a tour of the school.
These visits are intended to be informal ‘show and tell’ sessions rather than formal peer reviews, creating a supportive environment in which schools can explore different approaches, ask questions and learn from one another. Senior leaders from all schools are encouraged to attend, regardless of the phase of the host school, and the meetings offer valuable opportunities for cross‑phase learning.
The sessions run on a half‑termly basis.