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This year we are running a school-based maths project on mathematical automaticity for a group of 8 to 10 schools. Schools need to be based in Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire or South Gloucestershire as part of the project includes two bespoke visits.

To see if this is the right project for your school, please reflect on the statements below:

• Too many pupils at the end of KS2 are not secure with basic number facts and are unable to recall times tables facts.


• Some of our KS1 pupils are not able to recall simple number bonds and are still relyi ...

This session is aimed at new starters and will be broken down into two areas:

• Access Education Finance - Navigation of the system, purchasing, sales, processing invoices and how to use the online guidance.


• Access Education Budgeting - Navigation of the system, adding in new starters, amending staff contracts, updating income and expenditure in your budget.

This course is for South Gloucestershire Maintained Schools only and is free of charge.

Delegates will be contacted before the session with details of how ...

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 late September) and how you can prepare beforehand to assist and ensure your revised budget submission is accurate, achievable and that variances can be explained.

There will be plent ...

Part of our Schools Finance Bitesize training programme, this short training session is designed to help busy schools' business managers and administrators gain valuable CPD in manageable chunks.  

Expenditure in relation to catering represents a significant area of spend for schools, regular monitoring ensures that it is accurate and in line with what you have budgeted.  Understanding any variances will allow schools to adjust their budget projections and allow for more accurate budgeting going forward.  During this session, we will show you how to:

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Mediated Learning Support Assistant/Approach (MeLSA) is a training and supervision programme designed by educational psychologists to build the capacity of schools to support skilled and independent learning.

MeLSA provides training to individuals (called MeLSAs) that work directly with children and young people. This accessible, interactive, and evidence-based training ensures that MeLSAs understand the psychology of mediating learning and gain the skills to assist a child or young person to become a more skilled and independent learner.

MeLSAs are supporte ...