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This fun course provides voice care and maintenance advice. It will also encourage different classroom appropriate speaking strategies and listening and drama games to explore both voice care and appropriate voice usage with children, helping children to develop confidence in speaking, listening, presentation and performance.

This course will support NQTs to meet the following teacher standards:

4d) reflect systematically on the effectiveness of lessons and approaches to teaching
3a) have a secure knowledge of the relevant subject(s) and curriculum areas, foster and mai ...

In this session you will consider:

• The range and nature of needs in your classrooms


• Strategies and approaches that will support children


• Sources of information and support

This one day course is suitable for anyone who is new to management, or those who are looking to refresh themselves on best practice handling situations from informal stages up to and including dismissal. In the increasingly challenging educational environment, it is important that managers ensure that value is added from each member of staff and underperformance at any level is challenged and managed. This course will enable
managers to be confident to deal with the individual cases in a fair, timely and consistent manner, in line with relevant procedures.

The course is partic ...

This four day course is a very practical, hands-on introduction to timetabling. It will lead colleagues who are new, or relatively new, through the whole process of timetabling and covers:

• resourcing


• devising the most appropriate curriculum structure and staffing


• getting information from departments


• entering all data into the computer program


• constructing the timetable; analysing and scheduling


• producing printed timetables.

This training has been designed to support all practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum to develop their practice.

The training will support practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum or on the pathway to a diagnosis in early years settings.

The approach changed back in 2008 which gave clear guidance on how a part time teachers’ pay should be
calculated. STPCD recognised that all schools’ timetables are different and determined that a part time teachers’ pay should be calculated proportionately in relation to the teaching time of a full time teacher in the same school.

The old approach to paying in tenths of a week clearly breaches the document requirements and could be subject to challenge from both the individuals and the professional associations, and could bring significant claims of und ...

With the importance and value of reading for pleasure currently high on the national agenda, this conference aims to explore how we can create a culture of reading within and beyond schools. It will focus on how we can support children to become life-long, motivated readers, equipped with both the skills they need to access the curriculum and a passion for and love of reading. Delegates will have the opportunity to listen to experts in the field; explore interesting teaching approaches; consider how others have successfully made their schools reading schools and reflect on research.

This meeting will be led by Jo Briscombe, Teaching and Learning Adviser and CPD Lead, Integra Schools, who will present the supportive framework

After the break Carol Bond, Acting HT and SENCo at Elm Park, will report on her experience of the school’s recent Ofsted Inspection.

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.

The SFVS has changed, don’t get caught out!

The SFVS now comprises a checklist and a dashboard all in one toolkit. The checklist poses twenty-nine questions across seven subject areas:

• Governance


• School Strategy


• Setting the Annual Budget


• Staffing


• Value for Money


• Protecting Public Money


• SFVS dashboard.

Whilst some of the questions will be familiar as they are unchanged, there are a number of new and amended questions. There is also a dashboard that has to be populated with a range of fina ...