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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.

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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 ...

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 ...

We are aware that there are so many things going on in schools that it often means as a maths leader that you don’t have time to keep fully up to date with what is happening in the world of mathematics. So why not come and join our maths advisor, once a term, for an hour of updates, sharing of new resources and key information. It will also give you time to ask questions of other maths leaders and of the team.

This course will support all maths subject leaders.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, ...

These one-hour subject leader briefings are an opportunity for primary languages subject leaders to hear national updates, engage with ideas for effective PFL pedagogy and practice and share practice with other primary languages subject leaders.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, which will be sent via a link to the email address on your CPD Online account. Please ensure that the email address you have registered with is correct. If it needs changing this can be done via your CPD Online account or please conta ...

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 ...

These half-day network sessions are designed to enable EYFS teachers and EYFS phase leaders to work together to explore, discuss and share effective and engaging ways to provide enriching communication, language and literacy provision across all areas of learning.

As well as networking with other EYFS colleagues and considering evidence-based research, delegates will have the opportunity to collaborate in the development of impactful resources to use across their settings.

Please ensure that the email address you have registered with is correct. If it needs changing this can ...

We are delighted than once again we have Tom Holloway, Director of Regional Programme at the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

We are keen to reconnect our science leaders and make science exciting again in school for both teaching staff and pupils.

As a science leader we know that school is a busy place and often you don’t have time to keep fully up to date with what is happening in the world of science. So why not come and join Tom once a term for an hour of updates, sharing of new resources and key information. It will also give you time to ask questions of other scie ...