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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 ...

Supporting children to achieve the Greater Depth standard in writing by the end of KS2 starts with being able to recognise it when you see it. What is meant by ‘writing effectively’ at this standard and how can we recognise writers that ‘consciously control’ their choices? The standard is undoubtedly high – but how high? Are there practices which support or inadvertently hinder potential GDS writers? What can we learn from this standard to inform effective teaching for our most able writers throughout KS2?

This course will explore the GDS standard for w ...

Supporting children to achieve the Greater Depth standard in writing by the end of KS2 starts with being able to recognise it when you see it. What is meant by ‘writing effectively’ at this standard and how can we recognise writers that ‘consciously control’ their choices? The standard is undoubtedly high – but how high? Are there practices which support or inadvertently hinder potential GDS writers? What can we learn from this standard to inform effective teaching for our most able writers throughout KS2?

This course will explore the GDS standard for w ...

Part of our new Schools Finance Bitesize training programme, this short session is designed to help busy schools business managers and anyone else invoilved in the school's finances to gain valuable CPD in manageable chunks.  

Rising costs and other financial pressures mean that balancing the budget is becoming increasingly challenging.  In this session, we will look at different ways schools can make small savings and strategies to utilise and maximise funding where possible.  It will also be an opportunity for schools to share their ideas.

There wi ...

This is a one-day conference at St Pierre County Club in Chepstow. 

This conference centres around well-being for headteachers. We are delighted to welcome Dr Nic Cooper and Duncan Gillard

Dr Duncan Gillard

Duncan is a HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registered psychologist and an experienced practitioner, trainer and author in the field of Contextual Psychological Science. Duncan has written books such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Dummies and The Science of Children’s Wellbeing, as well as s ...

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 ...

During this session we look at the key areas of the schools budget and the processes and decision making strategies required by a school when preparing the budget.

We will recommend the tasks you can do now to prepare for your budget setting meetings.

Open to Head Teachers and School Business Managers that are both new in post or are looking to refresh their knowledge and understanding of the process.

This course is for South Gloucestershire Maintained Schools only.

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

Schools use regular assessment points through the year to track writing attainment but how confident do teachers feel with their judgements? What does mid-year attainment for writing look like in years 3 and 4, and how are children in your own class performing relative to their peers elsewhere? This workshop offers at least part of the solution.

Intended outcomes

By the end of the workshop delegates will have:

• A model for assessing writing that reflects the national assessment of writing at the end of KS2


• Reviewed examples of mid-yea ...

Schools use regular assessment points through the year to track writing attainment but how confident do teachers feel with their judgements? What does mid-year attainment for writing look like in years 5 and 6, and how are children in your own class performing relative to their peers elsewhere? This workshop offers at least part of the solution.

Intended outcomes

By the end of the workshop delegates will have:

• A model for assessing writing that reflects the national assessment of writing at the end of KS2


• Reviewed examples of mid-yea ...

During this session we look at the key areas of the schools budget and the processes and decision making strategies required by a school when preparing the budget.

We will recommend the tasks you can do now to prepare for your budget setting meetings.

Open to Head Teachers and School Business Managers that are both new in post or are looking to refresh their knowledge and understanding of the process.

This course is for South Gloucestershire Maintained Schools only.

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