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Course for Stroud Association Schools Only.

This course reflects the expectations in the national curriculum around spoken language and reasoning.

“The national curriculum for mathematics reflects the importance of spoken language in pupils’ development across the whole curriculum – cognitively, socially and linguistically. The quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak are key factors in developing their mathematical vocabulary and presenting a mathematical justification, argument or proof. They must be assisted in making their thinking cle ...

This course takes a look at how autism presents in girls. It is appropriate for any colleague who is interested in autism. 

This course is suitable for colleagues working with children and young people aged 5 – 25. 

Training will be delivered online over a one hour session.

This autism training session is available to anyone working in schools. It is also appropriate for governors, student teachers or anyone training to work in a school or with children and young people generally – social care, youth work, volunteers. 

This training ...

Civica is the accounting software used by South Glos Council. This session will take users through the General Ledger and Purchasing side of the system.

We will cover:

• how to log in


• how to save ‘favourites’


• how to run a high-level / 3-year high-level accounting enquiry


• how to search for a creditor invoice / transaction including payments


• how to drill down into transactions for further information


• how to run a payroll enquiry


• how to recode items


• overview of Civica reports (separate course ...

This 3 session course is for both primary and secondary school staff (Headteachers, SENCos, teachers) in both mainstream and specialist settings. It will enable the learner to understand the principles of the engagement model and how to apply these principles for effective and appropriate planning, assessment and reporting within their own settings.

The engagement model is an assessment tool that helps schools meet their duties in supporting pupils who are working below the level of the national curriculum and who are not engaged in subject-specific study – this became statuto ...

Current school staffing regulations (Keeping Children Safe in Education) require that at least one member of a school interview panel must have completed appropriate safer recruitment training. The session offered provides a refresher on the subject of Safer Recruitment in schools, for those individuals who have already completed an accredited Safer Recruitment training course. The course will consider developments in safer recruitment/safeguarding in schools; and discuss how issues have developed within the education setting. The course will clarify requirements for safegu ...

Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Trust will lead the sessions.

We are keen to reconnect our science leaders and make science exciting again in school for both teaching staff and pupils.

These two-hour online sessions will focus on updates and gives science leaders a place to discuss their own school science.

It will also support with answering some key questions including:

• How do we structure the science curriculum to enable children to retain long term?


• How do we support teachers to enable pupils to retain science knowledge long term?

This 3-part training course will support subject leaders to understand the EYFS framework, specifically with a focus on Understanding the World.

Participants will understand how cognitive science should strongly influence curriculum content and sequencing choices in their subject area.

There will be opportunities for reception teachers and subject leaders to work together to begin to map a coherent curriculum.

Participants will work within their school groups to develop a toolkit to support them in evaluating the quality of subjects within the context of EYFS.

This course unpacks the recently published AET Good Autism Practice Guidance.

We will look at the eight principles contained within this guidance which serve to give those working in education the key principles that should underpin their work with autistic children and young people.

It is hoped that the guidelines will inspire those working with autistic CYP in schools to develop their understanding of autism.

The guidance will also support educational professionals to make adjustments in their current settings to their physical, sensory and social environments, to ...

This course is an introduction to autism. It is most appropriate for colleagues with little or no experience of autism.

This training is suitable for any early years practitioner working in Reception, Nurseries, Pre-school settings and Childminders.

Training will be delivered online.  

This AET training session is available to anyone working within Early Years at a school, e.g. reception class teachers, teaching assistants, SENCo, volunteers, lunchtime staff, EY professionals working in schools. It is also appropriate for governors, student teachers or anyo ...

Cost centres can be used in CIVICA to record transactions for specific areas of income or expenditure for example pupil premium, PE Grant, SEND or extended services. Using cost centres properly can reduce the need for supplementary spreadsheets, reduce reconciling queries, assist with statutory reporting, improve transparency, support Governor monitoring and informed decision making.

This session will demonstrate:
• how they can be used;
• how to run enquiries and produce reports.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions during the session a ...