TWO Blackburn secretaries were among the first in the country to enjoy a ceremony for their pioneering role as school business managers.
Lyndsey Riley, of Audley Community Junior School, and Kay Cheetham, of St Barnabas and St Paul's CE Primary School, passed the certificate in School Business Management and a Diploma of the Institute of Administrative Management and have just returned from the cap and gown ceremony at the Merchant Taylors' Guild Hall, London.
The nine-month course has underpinned a vital new role in schools for administrative staff, reviewing the scope of their work and how it can develop. It also hinges on a new idea of a professional School Business Manager working alongside the headteacher and senior management team to further the goals of the school.
Jackie McGeady, from Beardwood High School was the first person to graduate in Blackburn with Darwen with this honour and has now tutors the new recruits.
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