Deputy Heads' Conference - Sunday 8 – Tuesday 10 June 2025 (Norton Park Hotel, Winchester)
This conference aims to: Focus on the key issues for HMC Deputy Heads and provide an opportunity to network and share good practice.
Description
This conference aims to:
Focus on the key issues for HMC Deputy Heads and provide an opportunity to network and share good practice.
This conference is for:
Senior Deputy Heads and Deputy Heads with pastoral responsibilities in HMC and other independent schools.
This conference fee includes:
Accommodation, all meals, refreshments, and course materials throughout the conference.
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Time |
Session |
Room |
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Sunday 8 June 2025 |
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14.30 – 15.30 |
Refreshments served among the exhibitors |
Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
Arrival and registration |
Hotel Foyer
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15.30 – 15.35 |
Welcome and opening remarks
Anna Peak – Conference Director and Deputy Head (Pastoral) and DSL, Shrewsbury School
Sponsor: Camps International Speaker:
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Norton Suite |
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15.35 – 15.45 |
HMC Platinum Partner Introductions |
Norton Suite |
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15.45 – 16.40
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State of the Nation address, followed by Q & A Speaker: Jaideep Barot, Chair, HMC and Headmaster, Bristol Grammar School
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Norton Suite |
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16.40 – 17.00 |
Refreshment break among the exhibitors |
Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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17.00 – 17.05 |
HMC Education Update
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Norton Suite |
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17.05 – 18.05 |
Connect and Collaborate – delegate led case studies
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Norton Suite |
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18.05 – 19.30 |
Free time |
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19.30 – 20.00 |
Private drinks reception for new Deputy Heads
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19.30 – 20.00 |
Drinks- cash bar |
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20.00 |
Dinner – please refer to table plan for seating – school type
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Norton Suite |
Monday 9 June 2025 |
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07.00 – 09.00 |
Breakfast |
River Room |
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09.00 – 10.15 |
Keynote: Courageous Leadership – lessons from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Speaker: Ben Walden, Contender Charlie
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Norton Suite |
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10.20 11.20 - |
The Marketplace - networking
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Norton Suite Drawing Room Hampshire Barn Wonston Austen |
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11.20 – 11.50 |
Refreshment break among the exhibitors |
Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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11.50 – 12.50 |
Keynote: A guide to Development
Speaker: Lou Bennett, CEO, The Institute of Development Professionals in Education
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Norton Suite |
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12:50 – 13:40 |
Lunch
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Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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13.40 – 14.40 |
Breakout sessions |
Norton Suite Drawing Room Hampshire Barn Wonston Austen |
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14.40 – 14.45 |
Move between sessions |
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14.45 – 15.45 |
The Marketplace - networking
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Norton Suite Drawing Room Hampshire Barn Wonston Austen |
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15.45 – 16.15 |
Refreshment break among the exhibitors |
Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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16.15 – 17.15 |
Reputation in the information age and the search for authenticity
Reputation is vital in the drive to create sustainable institutions in an ever changing world. Schools are a collection of relationships: in the information age reputation is based on the difficult to measure elements of human interaction and our response to the challenges of education. The approach to the session would be to examine the six elements below and through them examine strategies long, medium, short and immediate terms to create real relationships with those stakeholders and demonstrate authenticity in reputational management. 1. Presence in the school, national, and international communities 2. Approaches to Staff culture. 3. Approaches to student culture. 4. Approaches to parent culture 5. The Admissions process: honest brokers or a sales team 6. Response to crisis for the individual, the group and the institution
Speaker: Barry Cooper, Principal, The Global College, Madrid; Edruptor 2024 |
Norton Suite Drawing Room Hampshire Barn Wonston Austen |
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17.15 -19.00 |
Free time |
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19.00 |
Drinks reception
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?? (outside if weather nice) |
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19.30 |
Conference dinner (free seating)
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Norton Suite |
Tuesday 10 June 2025 |
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07.00 – 09.00 |
Breakfast |
River Room |
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09.00 – 10.00
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Keynote: Employment Law
Speaker: Harriet Broughton, Partner, Stone King LLP
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Norton Suite |
10.00 – 11.00 |
Round tables/networking |
Norton Suite
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Refreshment break among the exhibitors |
Foyer/Norton Lobby/Bar |
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11.30 – 12.30 |
Keynote: Liz McConaghy
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Norton Suite |
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12.30 |
Closing remarks and lunch If you have ordered a packed lunch, please collect on departure
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Norton Suite
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