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The focus over the last eighteen months for many schools has understandably been on getting to grips with the Interim Framework and supporting children to reach the expected standard in writing.  As a result, it has emerged that there are a number of misconceptions in relation to the greater depth criteria. 

This course is for Early Years practitioners.

This course will equip you to lead RE in your school as a compelling and challenging subject that stretches pupil’s learning. You will be able to communicate to other staff the expectations of the subject, know how to monitor its effectiveness and have some ideas to make RE fun and also contribute uniquely to students SMSC development.

The first hour will be cross phase and then delegates will be separated into Primary and Secondary for the rest of the session.

To attend this half day training course the following criteria must be met:

1. You have previously attended a Schools Visit Leaders course but require refresher training to enable to carrying out your duties effectively.

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2. You have previously attended the full day Educational Visits Co-ordinator Training course

The person designated with the role of ‘School Visit Leader’ has overall responsibility for supervision and conduct of any visits. The course, therefore, provides information and advice on the knowledge and skills required b ...

SIMS Discover is the next generation of analysis software used with your SIMS database, which allows a wide range of data from SIMS to be interrogated in a clean, modern interface with simple drag and drop actions. Quick, clear data analysis allows earlier interventions to ensure you maximise the performance of your pupils. SIMS Discover enables your school to become not just data rich but more importantly, information rich. SIMS Discover is a valuable tool to help raise standards as well as measure attainment across a range of Data areas in SIMS simply. These areas include Attendance, Beha ...

Do you have a child with autism in your class? Find out about autism and learn some key strategies for working with these children who think and learn in a different way.

This meeting is held three times over the year. At each meeting there will be time to ensure that the assessment leaders are up to date with the 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.

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This briefing is specifically aimed at year 2 teachers. The briefing will cover the key messages from the Assessment and Reporting Arrangements for 2018 , together with key messages about moderation and end of year reporting.

This two half day course will support Teaching Assistants both in their role as facilitators of learning in maths lessons and in developing their subject knowledge for KS2. Day 1 will look at the aims of the curriculum, the difference between fluency, problem solving and reasoning and explore the key subject knowledge of place value and calculation.  Day 2 will look at exploring strategies to support pupils to be independent in their learning through modelling, qu ...