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This network for subject leaders will provide information about national and local priorities, including the latest developments in primary English; advice and guidance to support the strategic leadership of English and opportunities to share best practice amongst schools.

This course is for SAS schools only.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, which will be sent via a link to the email address on your CPD Online account. Please ensure that the email address you have registered with is correct. If it ne ...

Revised budget visits take place during October and November with submission to Corporate Finance due by 30 November each year. As part of your subscribed service, your SFO prepares and reconciles information to ensure your data is correct and your visit is efficient.

This session will cover the preparation your SFO completes, how to complete the revised budget checklist (sent to all schools in September) and how you can prepare beforehand to assist and ensure your revised budget submission is accurate, achievable and that variances can be explained.

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This is a free training course for HR for Schools subscribing primary and secondary schools, to provide essential HR and payroll processing related information to support new SBMs and School Administrators new to their role. It is also a great refresher course for those who have previously attended or been in post a while. The employee lifecycle procedures course aims to give you the necessary information in order to effectively carry out the HR administrative and contractual side of your role.

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With the largest percentage of every school’s expenditure being on staffing costs, it is essential that all schools undertake regular payroll reconciliations. A good payroll reconciliation will be thorough check of expected employee costs per month to actual employee costs.

An effective reconciliation should not only identify incorrect staffing forecasts, but also incorrect payments to staff, creating a ‘win-win’ situation.

During this session we will show you how to use the payroll reconciliation function in HCSS.

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This session will concentrate on examining the staff variances thrown up when producing a budget monitoring report.

There are many things that can initially result in large variances against staffing. Anticipated pay rises, maternity, leave without pay, overtime are all areas that need manual adjustments calculated to ensure your expected outturn is accurate.

This session will take you through how to identify & explain genuine variances and how & why adjustments need to be made.

We recommend you attend the Budget Monitoring in HCSS (snapshots)

The nationally established Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) course trains skilled teaching assistants to deliver interventions for emotionally vulnerable pupils. Trainee ELSAs attend 6 full training days and subsequently carry out supervised practice over the course of the year leading to ELSA certification. It is also a pre-requisite that ELSA line managers attend a 1 ½ hour MS Teams twilight session following Day 1 of the course.

The cost for this course is £665 per delegate, which includes six full days training, four subsequent supervision sessions, the p ...

The EYFS network sessions will be an opportunity for like-minded EYFS colleagues to discuss how to support their children’s learning and development in an impactful and engaging way. The first session will focus on how to support the development of communication and language skills across all areas of learning. The content for the remainder of the sessions will be shaped by feedback from the group to ensure that the sessions are relevant to the needs of the children in their settings.

This course is for SAS schools only.

Delegates will be contacted three days before th ...

Year 6 is always a challenging year. Making sure that teachers are clear about curriculum expectations; know what these look like in practice and are confident in mapping provision are key to success.

As such, this course will examine the Year 6 writing expectations in detail, focusing on the demands of the Teacher Assessment Framework as well as the wider curriculum. The morning session will explore subject knowledge and progression, sharing strategies for teaching these skills in context, as well as exploring how to develop composition. In the afternoon, delegates will explore how ...

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.

This course will be delivered online over 2 sessions and both sessions need to be attended to receive your course certificate. 

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 profession ...

This is a four-session course to support leaders and subject leaders to become familiar with school improvement within the context of the Ofsted inspection framework. Sessions will focus on the core aspects of leadership and management through taking a detailed dive into their subjects and linking to expectations of the Ofsted Inspection Framework.

Sessions 1 and 2 are online and sessions 3 and 4 are face to face. These sessions are designed to ensure that senior leaders are familiar with the Ofsted inspection handbook and recent changes. 

Sessions 3 and 4 are aimed at ...