Looking forward to the next 10 years

Monday October 18^th to Tuesday October 19^th, 2010

National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services, Nottingham

This year is rather a special year as we celebrate 40 years since the opening of the first Local Authority wide middle school systems in this country in 1970. This is an important moment to revisit the key principles which led to the founding of middle schools and their rapid expansion in the 1970’s, their contribution to the education system in this country and look forward to their continued evolution in a new century.

Main Conference themes:

a) Futures thinking – looking ahead at what we can tell about developments to come and how middle schools might position themselves to be able to respond

b) Reconnecting and strengthening aspects of our values and vision that are fundamental to middle schools

c) Celebrating 40 years of middle school education in this country – reconnecting with the founding vision of the middle school movement.

Key speakers:

• Marcus Orlovsky, Founder member and director of Bryanston Square

• Tim Rylands, ICT to Inspire

• Maggie Farrar, Strategic Director for Policy Research and Development, NCSL

Plus a full programme of workshops - and opportunities for networking with middle school colleagues.

 
Cost: £350  - (the same as last year)

Conference Organisation:

The majority of the conference will be focused on the first of the conference themes as we look to the future, with a mixture of keynote sessions and workshops.

The conference will open at 10.00 on Monday 18^th October and close at 3.30 on Tuesday 19^th October.

Celebrating 40 years of Middle Schools

 On the afternoon and evening of Monday 18th October we will be inviting ex-headteachers and leading figures from the middle school movement to join us.

 
There is a separate invitation and booking form available for this part of the conference - see link below - please circulate this among anyone connected with the middle school movement who might be interested to join us.

Download conference information

     Conference 2010 booking form - download

    Conference 2010 information booklet - download

    Conference 2010 poster - download

 
   Invitation to the Celebration of 40 Years of Middle School Education - download

Further details from the NMSF website (middleschools.org.uk) and the conference administrator:

Lesley Judge, c/o Greneway Middle School Garden Walk, Royston, Hertfordshire. SG8 7JF

Tel: 01763 243650      Fax: 01763 241499     ljudge3@greneway.herts.sch.uk