We are excited to announce that our Small Schools’ Programme will be returning on Thursday 25th September. Please save the date if you’d like to be part of our supportive community of small schools. Created in collaboration with small schools, the new programme, builds on outcomes from programmes 1 and 2 and will continue to offer insights into the unique challenges and opportunities small schools face.
There are six new sessions planned to run online over the 2025/26 academic year. Each will focus on key topics affecting small schools. Participants will hear from a range of speakers, including current headteachers of smaller schools, who will share broad principles and practical strategies that have proven effective in their settings.
In each session, participants will also have the opportunity, to talk with our presenters and to network and share ideas in the ‘Live Lounges’.
If you have any questions about the programme, email training@hfleducation.org or call 01438 544477.
Also, if you are a headteacher of a small school and have 5 minutes please could you fill in our quick survey? We are working on a campaign to highlight the human cost of being a headteacher in a small school – the stress, the challenges and how things could be better. We want to put your voice and experience front and centre in our campaign, and the survey will give us a snapshot of opinions from leaders of small schools. All answers will be collated anonymously, and the survey is open until Friday 27th June 2025.
