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In this essential online guide the roles and responsibilities of the mentor/induction tutor, NQT/ECT and Appropriate Body will be explored. Statutory guidance will be exemplified, giving induction tutors and mentors a solid understanding of their roles. The course will look at meeting schedules and offer brief guidance on observing and other methods of monitoring your NQTs/ECT and giving feedback. There will be a detailed look at assessment procedures and how to use the teachers’ standards effectively. The course will give Induction tutors a range of documents to support the process. ...

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.

There will be plen ...

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 offered complies with updated DfE safer recruitment guidance for schools. The session is suitable for participants who are new to the subject of Safer Recruitment, and participants will be fully accredited in Safer Recruitment. The course includes consideration of the different types of abuse; how abusers operate; safeguarding within recruitment and selection procedures, including the use ...

The Autism Education Trust has produced an excellent assessment framework to support education professionals, cross phase. It is free and downloadable from the AET website.

Autism Education Trust - Autism Education Trust

The AET Progression Framework will help you to consider a broad and balanced education for your autistic pupils/students and enable you to devise personalised provision as well as monitoring progress in non- academic educational development.

No previous experience necessary.

Delegates will be contacted 3 days before the session with details o ...

Year 3 represents the start of the KS2 writing curriculum. This course explains the Year 3 writing expectations in detail, unpicking the relevant grammatical subject knowledge and sharing strategies for teaching these skills in context. It also explores how teaching sequences based around a high quality text can be developed, as well as providing an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with colleagues.

The session is a must for Early Career Teachers and teachers who are new to Year 3, although feedback shows that experienced Year 3 teachers and subject leaders also ...

This course explains the Year 4 writing expectations in detail, unpicking the relevant grammatical subject knowledge and sharing strategies for teaching these skills in context. It also explores how teaching sequences based around a high quality text can be developed, as well as providing an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with colleagues.

The session is a must for Early Career Teachers and teachers who are new to Year 4, although feedback shows that experienced Year 4 teachers and subject leaders also find the session extremely valuable.  The course is ai ...

Want to get your teachers and pupils excited about science again? Not sure how to teach all the 'Working Scientifically' skills? Are you looking for a new set of engaging, fun, scientific activities to teach the units of the national curriculum? Need ideas of how to make those cross curricular links? Then this course is for you!

Our new science scheme of work has been written collaboratively by a group of South Glos science leaders together with Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

The National Curriculum for science intends that pupils understanding of the ...

Year 6 is always a challenging year, possibly never more so than after the disrupted learning of the last two years. STA have confirmed that statutory assessment and moderation will return in 2022, meaning that a clear understanding of expectations and how to address these will be essential.

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

Year 5 is a challenging year and the expectations for writing are significant. This course explains the Year 5 writing expectations in detail, unpicking the relevant grammatical subject knowledge and sharing strategies for teaching these skills in context. It also explores how teaching sequences based around a high quality text can be developed, as well as providing an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with colleagues.

The session is a must for Early Career Teachers and teachers who are new to Year 5, although feedback shows that experienced Year 5 teachers and s ...

Want to get your teachers and pupils excited about science again? Not sure how to teach all the 'Working Scientifically' skills? Are you looking for a new set of engaging, fun, scientific activities to teach the units of the national curriculum? Need ideas of how to make those cross curricular links? Then this course is for you!

Our new science scheme of work has been written collaboratively by a group of South Glos science leaders together with Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

The National Curriculum for science intends that pupils understanding of the ...