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This one and a half hour session is designed for school teams who would like to develop their awareness and understanding of autism.

The course is suitable for SENCos, teachers, teaching assistants lunchtime staff, senior leadership and governors.

The session is suitable for practitioners working with school-age pupils on the autism spectrum in both mainstream and specialist settings.

Are you ready for the new KS1 frameworks?

Are you secure with making judgements against the KS2 writing framework?

Are you a new or current teacher in Year 2 or Year 6?

As a subject or assessment leader how confident are you that assessment is accurate?

Our conference will address all of these issues.

Keynote speaker: Sarah Hubbard – HMI for English

Sarah will open the conference with an overview of the national picture and updates
about the assessment of reading and writing.

The conference is aimed at getti ...

Course Structure:

• The two day face-to-face preparation course explains the HLTA standards and the HLTA assessment process and fully explains how to put together the required portfolio of evidence. Guidance is provided on completing the required written tasks and explains the purpose and the set-up of the 3 hour school visit.


• Between days 1 and 2, candidates will engage in online activities to check understanding.


• The group returns for day 2 approximately 5-6 working weeks later to review progress and receive formative feedback on the tasks ...

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 is aimed at individuals who have not previously been formally trained in the subject of Safer Recruitment, and complies with updated DfE statutory safer recruitment guidance for schools. The course includes consideration of the different types of abuse; how abusers operate; safeguarding within recruitment and selection procedures, including the use of DBS checks and promoting a safer work ...

Support group for SENCo's at schools subscribing to Inclusion Support

The course will cover SIMS Reporting to support day-to-day administration reporting procedures. This course is a full day to allow for plenty of time to practise. Please bring along any memory sticks as any reports you design on the day can be taken away with you and imported into your own SIMS system.

This half day course is suitable for all teachers in KS2. Colleagues will explore a teaching sequence that guarantees timely application of grammar skills. Colleagues will map out units of work and develop strategies to help them select the best possible writing outcome for end of unit pieces and writing that applies specific grammar.

In these three half day sessions new subject leaders will be supported
to develop their leadership skills through a focus on subject knowledge and
strategies for monitoring pupil progress. They will discuss how these can be
used to hold teachers to account and support pupils to catch up. There will
also be a focus on effective intervention strategies to accelerate pupil
progress for those who are falling behind. Leaders will work together using
their own school information.

There will also be the opportunity to hear about
effective leadership from ...

This three half-day course supports colleagues who become familiar with the new maths teacher assessment framework for year 2 and how to manage this alongside teaching the full national curriculum.

The first session will take place in term 2 and will focus on the new framework, mapping against the national curriculum, activities for working towards and working at.

The second session will take place in term 3 and will focus further activities for working at and how to move pupils to greater depth. As part of this session there will be some cross school moderation. The final s ...

This is a 3 session course over the year. At each meeting there will be time to ensure that maths subject leaders are up to date with key national and local information including Ofsted and DFE updates, data and assessment. There will be time to work on bespoke aspects as identified by members of the group. All of this will be alongside developing the strategic role of the subject leader such as action planning, delivering CDP, supporting teaching and learning. ...