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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 ...

As an English Leader, you hold easily one of the most influential and far-reaching roles for teaching and the curriculum in your school.  With great professional satisfaction comes significant responsibility.  Colleagues appreciate and make use of your knowledge and expertise, children look to you as a role-model for the subject, and the effectiveness of your leadership visibly impacts on the culture and profile of your school.  Keeping up to date is probably high on your to-do list.  Why not join our English adviser, Stephanie Hilder, and English Leader colleagues acros ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Are you looking to create a more inclusive and supportive classroom environment that empowers every student to thrive?  Join our dynamic training session on enhancing Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) best practice, designed specifically for teachers like you.

This practical and engaging workshop for headteachers and teachers, will equip you with evidence-based strategies to recognise and address SEMH challenges, foster resilience, and promote positive behaviour in your classroom. Through expert guidance, real-world examples, and actionable techniques, you&r ...

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 a 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 opportun ...

This module is intended to equip delegates with an understanding of the importance of play in the Early Years Foundation Stage and how the Three Areas of Difference in autism can impact on play skills. The module also considers how person-centred planning and making reasonable adjustments can enable autistic children to develop their play skills.   

This AET training is only available to Schools, Nurseries, Pre-school settings and Childminders within South Gloucestershire.

The National Governance Association (NGA) has shown that 60% of schools and trusts report balancing their budgets as their biggest challenge.  In this session we discuss some of the areas that schools can review to identify efficiencies and potential savings. It will also be an opportunity for schools to share ideas that have worked for them which may be helpful to other schools. During the session we will look at:

• Staffing
• Income streams
• Expenditure
• Financial monitoring

The aim of this session is to support schools to take act ...

This twilight is for all year 6 teachers to ensure they are up to date with the statutory requirements for assessment for 2025. The briefing will update teachers on the administration of the SATS for reading, maths, and GPS, including access arrangements, disseminate the key information from both the assessment and reports arrangements and the teacher assessment guidance for Y6 writing moderation.

As part of the twilight teachers will get the following resources:

• A copy of the training PowerPoint


• Additional resources to use to support moderation and assessme ...