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This half day course is suitable for all teachers in KS1. The main outcomes for delegates will be an understanding of the 'Talk for Writing' approach; an ability to plan a teaching sequence which ensures balance of oral retelling, developing story language and KS1 grammar and a confidence in using modelled and shared writing to improve outcomes.

This one-day course meets the requirements of the HSE syllabus and covers the HSE Recommendations for training of an Appointed Person (the minimum requirement for first aid cover at work. Topics include CPR, dealing with an unconsciousness casualty, choking and Major Bleeding. Time is also given to discussing injuries and ailments common in the workplace, both inside and outside the school. Emphasis is placed on individual and group practice of the skills needed in life-threatening situations. This is underpinned by encouraging an understanding of both the processes and the reasoning behind ...

This Power BI training course is designed for secondary schools to enable them to design and create 3 dashboards for Pupil data, Attendance and Conduct.

This will be for a half day and will assume that you are familiar with creating SIMS reports in .csv format.

The course will include creating visualisations for clustered column charts, pupil interactive filters, tables and pie charts.

Participants will be able to transfer this knowledge to their own school and create a school specific dashboard.

Participants will be contacted and supplied with a se ...

This course explores how the Course Manager functionality of SIMS links areas such as Nova-T, Academic Management and Examinations Organiser, including procedures for supporting the maintenance of Post-16 learning aims. It is particularly aimed at school with post 16 students.
The course is advertised as a whole day but may finish earlier, depending on the requirements of delegates.

In a change for this year instead of Assessment Best Practice we are running assessment briefings as twlights, twice in the year. At each meeting there will be time to ensure that assessment leaders are up to date with the key national and local information including Ofsted and DFE updates, data and assessment.

This one day course is for any new Year 2 teachers or anyone returning to Year 2. The morning session will focus on writing where we wil focus on key subject knowledge, the teacher assessment frameworks, national exemplification and effective moderation of writing. The afternoon session will be split into maths and reading. For both of these sessions we will look at how the national curriculum and the teacher assessment frameworks link and planning for both, how and when to collect  evidence, the different sources of evidence, the national exempl ...

Recent research (Hudson 2012 – Taken from Managing workload document) found that NQTs required ‘Stronger consideration of developing teaching practices, such as: pedagogical knowledge development and behaviour management’.

This course will give you an understanding of the reasons behind some behaviour problems and that it does not stand alone, but arises from some other need. It will look at how to identify and address some of these difficulties. Advice and suggestions to work with children with challenging behaviour will be explored.

This course will suppo ...

This course supports secondary schools to make the best use of the SIMS option module to administer their students' choices.

In recent years schools are finding that they need to consider how they meet the needs of children with
increasingly complex needs. This series of twilight sessions aims to combine specialist knowledge with the practical experiences of schools who have set up types of provision and practices to meet complex needs in
their school.

This series of courses are priced at £30 each. If a deleagte books and attends all six sessions the final session will be free of charge.