Planning / Activity Calendar

The Planning/Activity calendar indicates the months during which activities and actions are needed to ensure the trust is compliant.  This is a working document which will be updated on-going.

Annual Trust Meeting Calendar (see separate calendar section)

In addition to the Planning/Activity calendar, the trust publishes a meeting calendar on an annual basis.  As well as showing term and holiday dates, including the wellbeing weekend, it also includes dates of:

• The annual conference 

• Meeting dates for:

• Governors and trustees

• Headteacher and SLT sessions

• Architects

• Attendance and subject leads

• DSL / SENCO

• Policy and Business/Operation Leads

• Associate staff and Premises Managers

Trust representatives also like to be invited to school events and activities so please let us know if you have anything in your calendar that you think you would like us to attend.

Work Planner

The trust prepares a governor’s work planner on an annual basis which details the activities and areas for discussion which each of the LGB and committees should consider.   In addition, schools will have their own local topics for discussion at meetings.

Leadership Meeting Cycles

John Winter (CEO)  meets with every headteacher / principal on a four weekly basis.  He also meets with the COO and EDAI fortnightly to discuss progress.

Mark Sharman (EDAI) meets with subject leads fortnightly and there is a schedule of meetings with various groups and forums such as Deptuties, Attendance Leads etc.

A full calendar of regular scheduled meetings can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R36Q2j8HyxTP0leaSdp1BHoDvpHbIlJL/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112147528254782508904&rtpof=true&sd=true

Pay Process Cycle

Schools must have completed their pay review process for staff by 30th September each year.  This includes approval of the recommended pay awards (prepared by the Principal/Headteacher) by the school Pay Committee.  

Following approval of the pay awards, the school must provide the trust finance team with details of their calculations (to update payroll) and a copy of the minutes of the Pay Committee meeting for sharing with the trust Pay Committee members.

The school pay awards, and the trust central team pay recommendations (prepared by the CEO) are reviewed and approved by the trust Pay Committee by mid-October each year.  Following approval, the information is passed to the finance team for inclusion in the November salary payment.

It is important that the pay process is completed in schools by the deadline to ensure the new salary amount can be paid as quickly as possible.