Research School Network: Keeping the plates spinning The every day adventures of a Research School administrator

Being a Research School administrator is never a dull day! With responsibility for a Research school, a Research hub and an Associate Research School, as well as an ever-expanding training programme, there is always something happening at the Aspirer Research School.

Once a course has been commissioned, there are venues to book, flyers to create, websites to update and registers to manage. Thanks to the wonders of Tweetdeck
and a digital communication Toolkit provided by our sponsors, the EEF, many an hour can be whiled away scheduling tweets across the different handles.

After reminders have been sent and course leaders have their registers, numbers and dietary requirements, the researchers and practitioners can begin sharing their work and translating their findings into key messages for the classroom.

Following the session, it’s time to upload the registers onto the spreadsheet to quantify our event engagement and add the new audience to Mailchimp so that they too can share in the delights of the monthly Newsletter!

Of course, in between the day-to-day running there are always Guidance Reports and merchandise to order, tweets to like and retweet and fun to be had arranging the Aspirer Research School Conference 2020; ​“Looking at every angle from every direction”

By far the most exciting and inspirational event of everyone’s calendars has to be, I’m sure you’ll agree, the Aspirer Research School Conference. This year the spectacular will take place at the AJ Bell stadium on Friday July 10^th. SATS will be a distant memory, phonics testing will be completed and there can be no OFSTED phone call on a Friday which means everyone is available to come along and learn.

The theme of this year’s conference will be Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to further explore the statutory introduction of the PHSE curriculum and how the EEF SEL guidance report is an underpinning foundation to the whole curriculum.

We will aim to:

- explore the evidence around effective SEL.
- explore implementation of the SEL curriculum: to understand and be introduced to effective SEL interventions.
- To consider ways of evidencing progression in SEL development across schools and how it links to the wider curriculum and leadership

Keep an eye out for more intormation coming soon by following us on social media – https://researchschool.org.uk/aspirer/, @AspirerRS, @Alexpark1912ARS and @Aspirer_MancHub for more information or email rswann@​aet.​cheshire.​sch.​uk for more training or conference details.


Rachel Swann – otherwise known as the glue who keeps this all spinning!