Berry Education

🏎️ The 3 top drivers of the day... 🏎️ For our Berry Education Christmas race! We celebrated a successful year with a series of high speed, high stakes go-kart races and then finished with a lovely meal and the exchange of secret santa gifts 🎅 A day full of laughs, smiles and thankfully no broken bones 🤣 As 2024 comes to a close, Our Director Claire Mitchell reflects on what a great year this has been here at Berry Education, we have seen Berry go from strength to strength this year with not only our clerking and specialist services but also diversity into other areas of the business. Quickly becoming a "one-stop shop" for MATs and Academies in the UK.     With the launch of TrustGov, our governance platform which enables Governance Professionals to manage their Governance meetings across their Trusts out to the UK-wide education sector.    We also launched our recruitment service which marries up volunteers to schools and Trusts to add professionals to boards and Trustee positions and over the festive period we'll be launching our "live" training across the UK to increase CPD amongst governance professionals.    We would like to thank all of our customers across the UK we get to work with and look forward to working with you all in the future!!     Wishing all of our customers a happy, healthy and prosperous new year 💜 #Christmas #ThankYou #AllInOnePiece

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill introduced in Parliament today will make a child-centred government a reality by putting children’s interests first and stopping vulnerable children falling through cracks. The bill includes: 🏠 A new home education register and unique numbers for pupils – like every adult has a national insurance number – to stop children falling through the cracks. ⚠️ New rules on home education to protect vulnerable children. 🧑🏫 Stronger role for schools and professionals in safeguarding decisions, to make sure help can be mobilised for every child that needs it. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e4XUSNwE

👇 Breaking News for early years providers 👇 The government are providing a £2 billion increase in investment to support the rollout of 30 hours of government funded early education from next September. "The goal is to increase access to affordable early education so tens of thousands of more children will be school ready by age 5" Click the link in the comments to read more 👇 #EarlyYears #Education #Funding

Have you ever fancied #volunteering, but didn't know where to start? 💁🏼♂️ Are you willing to give approx. 3-6 hours of your time every 12 weeks? ⏲️ Can you commit to 3-6 meetings a year? 📆 Do you want to give something back to the community, but prefer it to be time, skills or expertise over money? 💷 Are you ready to make a REAL difference? ✅ If you answered YES to any of these q's ...We have the answer for you!! Volunteer to be a School Governor / Board Member Becoming a school #Governor enables you to help the local community and support #education and also increase your own #CPD We are looking for amazing professional people, like yourselves - with fantastic skills and attributes (you don't even have to work in education) actually working in a different sector or industry is probably better. So if you work in any of these industries/careers #Legal #Finance #HR #Marketing #Sales #Business or YOU just want to make a real difference not just in the local community but too children - now is the perfect time. It is the season for giving after all 🎅🏼 🎄 🎁 To express an interest ⬇️ ⬇️ - Go on you know you want too... #vacancies #jobalert #hiring #hiringnow #schooljobs #Volunteer https://lnkd.in/eeqFRDDj

🎅🏼 🎄 🎁 Well this is us at Berry Education this year, for our Christmas party/get together we are going go-carting as a team for a couple of hours. - Brum brum 🏎️ 🏎️ It's not something I've ever done before so yes I'm really looking forward to it - a bit of healthy competition, a few giggles, the fact for an hour or so I'll think I could be Stirling Moss!! Personally I'd rather do something like this, which is a bit of fun, bit of team bonding, then having a few beers... Lots of people don't drink, whether that's for personal reasons, health reasons, religion, they may be driving later that day or they just don't like it - and its none of our business. So this way everybody gets to take part .. and I'm looking forward to our party with a twist..... 🏆 🏆 🏆 So what is everyone's thoughts on this and what are you doing for your works Christmas party.... What ever you do have a great time.... Brum Brum ...... - Kaye #Christmas #Chritmasparty #Alcohol #Wellbeing #Gosober

It seems to be that time of year in the #education sector when #AGM are happening up and down the country - from SAT's, MAT's to Federations, and we know here at Berry that #Governance is always on the agenda.   So why not be part of our growing TrustGov user base and see how TrustGov is revolutionising the way governance meetings are planned, organised and managed - the automations alone are saving hours upon hours every week. But that's not all - there's is so much more it can do, making governance professional lives easier.    So when you are contemplating what went well, what didn't, chasing up who's attending and who isn't, documentation and important finance reports for you AGM or year end board meeting - think how TrustGov would of helped. Register for a FREE DEMO or to find out more ⬇️ ⬇️  

Great blog from National Governance Association regarding preventing #FraudPrevention in Schools. #Governing boards aren't just their for strategic planning and should question the financials as part of meetings. Well worth a read!!

Have you ever fancied #volunteering, but didn't know where to start? 💁🏼♂️ Are you willing to give approx. 3-6 hours of your time every 12 weeks? ⏲️ Can you commit to 3-6 meetings a year? 📆 Do you want to give something back to the community, but prefer it to be time, skills or expertise over money? 💷 Are you ready to make a REAL difference? ✅ If you answered YES to any of these q's ...We have the answer for you!! Volunteer to be a School Governor / Board Member Becoming a school #Governor enables you to help the local community and support #education and also increase your own #CPD We are looking for amazing professional people, like yourselves - with fantastic skills and attributes (you don't even have to work in education) actually working in a different sector or industry is probably better. So if you work in any of these industries/careers #Legal #Finance #HR #Marketing #Sales #Business or YOU just want to make a real difference not just in the local community but too children - now is the perfect time. It is the season for giving after all 🎅🏼 🎄 🎁 To express an interest ⬇️ ⬇️ - Go on you know you want too... #vacancies #jobalert #hiring #hiringnow #schooljobs #Volunteer https://lnkd.in/eeqFRDDj

#Ofsted to review #AI use in #schools The #DfE has asked Ofsted to carry out an independent review of AI use in schools. The review will summarise the background literature and collect data from schools and further education colleges to investigate how AI is currently being used in the sector. Ofsted will collect evidence in spring 2025 and aim to publish results by the summer. For more info see the link in the comments.

📰 🗞️ Newsletter time - Read all about it 🗞️ 📰 It's that time again #3minread #newsletter