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Have regular meetings
Ideally, at the beginning of the academic year you'll have:
- Decided how you’ll communicate
- Phone, email, video call – whatever you and your headteacher or CEO choose should be tailored to how they work best
- Set a schedule
- This'll be based on when they'd prefer to be contacted, including the time of day and how often
- Try and establish the same weekly/fortnightly slot, so you’re both clear on what’s expected and no one feels overloaded
- Have wellbeing as an agenda item in your 1-to-1 meetings
Aside from wellbeing, you’ll talk about other things too. If you're a chair at a maintained school or the chair of a local governing body (LGB), find out what else you might cover and how to make your