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Tapestry Sally Pemberton


How has NPQICL has influenced my work? The question encompasses


learning influences my life choices.


how leadership


journals, notebooks and folders as I came to a place to begin.


One memory from so many. Dartington Hall - a reflective activity in the Great Tudor Hall. A collection of long brightly


I browsed through


coloured tapestries were hanging


walls. A participant used the tapestries to give us her image of the leadership learning she had


NPQICL. She saw the tapestry as the programme, tightly woven through time with the learning of many, many other leaders. She believed her own NPQICL leadership learning was bound


Working as a teacher with children and families across age ranges in nursery primary and tertiary settings


Working within a new integrated centre as part of multi-agency team in a partnership nursery between college and Local authority to meet individual needs of children and families by bringing services together


Community for families colleagues and students Leadership of the Children’s Centre Early


Leading the learning in a Children’s Centre to plan individually for over 100 babies and young children. Developing a Learning


Programme developing services across a multi- agency sector


Excellence Centre Trailblazer Local Surestart 6 NPQICL for 3 different providers over 10 years


through Pilot Programme NPQICL and MA Becoming a tutor, mentor and assessor in


Being tutored and mentored experienced during the on the oak-panelled


into the Centre she leads; just as the colours wove through these old tapestries.


The same image helps me to think about my own learning over time. The weaving of a tapestry is familiar to me, a complex process from setting up the frame, choosing the colours, designing and working the cloth. I begin by stringing


threads on a loom to form the foundation of a new tapestry. I go back to the beginnings, back further to earlier leadership experiences.


My vertical threads: vertical


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