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1.2 Staffing

If you have been promoted within a setting you will be familiar with the staff and their
responsibilities. If you are new to the school then obviously you are starting with limited
knowledge.

In either case, it can be useful to ask for a staffing
list from the school office. You can annotate this to
build up a picture of colleagues’ experience and
knowledge that may be useful to you in your role as
a middle leader.

If any colleagues have held your role, or a similar

role, in the past then make a note of this. They
could be a really useful source of help and support.

The following pages provide tables that will help you gain a thorough knowledge of
staffs’ strengths that you might be able to draw upon in your area of leadership and
use to benefit the pupils.

For example, you may find that a non-teaching member of staff is a talented
musician, local history expert or sportsperson. This expert knowledge could be utilised
by you as the music, history or P.E. subject leader to run demonstrations, improve other
colleagues subject knowledge or be interviewed by pupils.

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