Laurie O’Donnell

Early start on Monday for our Corporate Management Team in Glasgow. CMT covered a wide range of issues including corporate risk, staff pay, leadership and Glow. I then had to dash back home for a 4.30 S2 parents evening. I used to organise these events when I was an assistant head and I always enjoy […]

Just finishing off a long weekend and feeling great. Managed to play golf, take one daughter swimming, play badminton with the other one, watch a dismal game of footie at Tannadice and take our dog out for a couple of long walks in the country. For a change I managed to escape from my inbox […]

Meant to post this one as couple of weeks ago. I was the lucky parent helper chosen to visit the Scottish Parliament with two P6 classes on 1 February. Apart from school buses with 5 seats in each row and seat belts not much has changed since I was in P6 … maybe the […]

Left home at 0715 and remembered to take my jacket with me this morning
Work started just after 0845 meeting Sally Fulton, Education Officer with Stirling Council and chair of the influential local authority ICT advisers network SICTDG. Sally wanted to update me on Glow funding issues and get a general update on progress.
Next was […]

Had an interesting meeting today in West Calder High School in West Lothian.
On way down I remembered that I had left my suit jacket and tie hanging in the hall at home. I managed to pick up a tie from my mother on the way to West Calder and then borrowed a pen from Allan […]

January seems to have flashed past. Xmas and New Year are always busy, followed by most of a week in London at BETT, then my great friend and colleague John Connell left for a new post with CISCO, followed by the recently retired Stuart Robertson returning on short-term contract to help organise the Learning Festival […]