Secondary support staff.
A look at the vital role that the support staff in a large multi-ethnic all girls secondary school in Birmingham perform. Swanshurst School lies close to Edgbaston Cricket Club and currently has 1800 pupils. This programme adopts a fly on the wall style to explore what it takes to keep a school like...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[London] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2005.
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| Series: | Education in video
Secondary support staff ; 1-2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | A look at the vital role that the support staff in a large multi-ethnic all girls secondary school in Birmingham perform. Swanshurst School lies close to Edgbaston Cricket Club and currently has 1800 pupils. This programme adopts a fly on the wall style to explore what it takes to keep a school like Swanshurst going. Follow the team of sixty five support staff team during a typical day where they deal with a broken boiler that threatens to close the school, noisy disruptive renovation work, a careers convention, census checking and budget juggling. Swanshurst has an annual budget of seven and a half million pounds and this lively programme shows how the support team help to manage that money and ease the load on the teachers. A look at the pastoral work carried out by the team of sixty-five support staff at Swanshurst School in Birmingham. Swanshurst School lies close to Edgbaston Cricket Club and currently has 1800 pupils. The programme focuses on the role of the learning mentors, school nurse and parent link workers as they deal with sickness, absenteeism and exam pressure. Headteacher Elaine Kenney outlines the philosophy that underpins the ethos of the school and says that the school is a family there to help one another at times of trouble, strife and even tragedy. And in support of this the caretaker/site manager of the school, Derek Jones, tells a moving story of how all the students and staff helped him through a desperately difficult time when he lost his wife, son and three grandchildren in a terrible car crash. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (28 min.). |