Secondary support staff
Description
A look at the vital role that the support staff in a large multi-ethnic all girls secondary school in Birmingham perform.Swanshurst School lies close to Edgbaston Cricket Club and currently has 1800 pupils. This programme adopts a fly on the wall style to explore what it takes to keep a school like Swanshurst going.Follow the team of sixty five support staff team during a typical day where they deal with a broken boiler that threatens to close the school, noisy disruptive renovation work, a careers convention, census checking and budget juggling.Swanshurst has an annual budget of seven and a half million pounds and this lively programme shows how the support team help to manage that money and ease the load on the teachers.
Runtime
28 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2005
Database
Alexander Street
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