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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.

There will be plenty of opportunit ...

Schools rely upon good solid budget plans and regular monitoring to survive the inevitable twists and turns that the school year provides. Accurate budget monitoring reports provide the necessary information about a schools’ spending patterns and assist the schools’ management or finance staff to recognise and provide realistic forecasts. Good financial management in schools essentially comes from maintaining knowledge, this is achieved through accurate budget monitoring.

This can be significant and could result in the school making key decisions on data which is not acc ...

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 ...

This training has been designed to support all practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum to develop their practice.

In-depth training around identification and support focussing on the four areas of need. A basic knowledge of Autism is needed and it is suggested that delegates will have already completed Making Sense of Autism

The training will support practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum or on the pathway to a diagnosis in early years settings.

This AET training is only available to Schools, Nurse ...

Teaching Y6 is fabulous. However, to make the most of it and to enjoy teaching at the top of the school, it is helpful to understand the requirements at the end of the year. This helps you to prepare the children (and yourself) properly, without letting the fact of statutory assessment overwhelm your fantastic curriculum time. This course is perfect for new year 6 teachers and many more experienced year 6 teachers also find the annual reminders reassuring. Whilst exploring the essential knowledge for administering end of KS2 statutory assessments in accordance with all requirements, we will ...

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Come and join Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Teaching Trust as he leads us through a fun packed day of experiments.

In the morning online sessions, pupils will explore:

EYFS and KS1:

The reindeers' noses get too cold when they’re pulling Santa’s sleigh. We need to make them some nose warmers. Which material should we use?
Could you make something to go on the tips of their antlers too?

Y3/4:

Santa mustn’t wake up sleeping children, but his shoes keep making ...

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 ...

These 2 two and a half hour online sessions will focus on supporting Year 5 and 6 teachers with key subject knowledge, planning, teaching and assessing against the national curriculum. It will support teachers in addressing gaps from previous year groups.

Session 1: Teaching long multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages
Session 2: Teaching of key aspects of geometry, measures, time, algebra and ratio and proportion.

As part of the course, you will receive additional resources to support you to develop this aspect ...

At the end of KS2 we still have not as many girls achieving EXS and Higher Attainment. This online session will look at the latest research around this, consider what the barriers for girls are and what teachers and schools can do to overcome these, both in lessons and within test situations.

As part of the course, you will receive additional resources to support you to develop this aspect of maths back in your school/classroom.

This course will support all KS2 teachers and Maths Subject Leaders.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details ...

Part of our new 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.  

Regular housekeeping in AEF will ensure your financial position is as accurate as possible.  During this session, we will show you how to:

• Review your outstanding purchase orders


• Review your transactions to ensure they have been correctly coded


• Run and aged debt report

Ensuring that your transactions in AEF are rele ...