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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 1 and 2, 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 (no longer statutory) assessment of writing at the end of KS1


• Review ...

Statutory Assessment for 2024-2025 will soon be upon us and we are aware that there is a need to support headteachers and senior leaders with the statutory duties of teachers and leaders.

This twilight is for all senior leaders in schools to make sure they are up to date with the statutory requirements for assessment for 2025.

There will be updates on:

•  Y1 Phonics screening check


•  Optional KS1 assessment materials


•  Year 4 Multiplication check


•  KS2 SATS, administration of SATS, access arrangements


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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 and reception class.

This AET trainin ...

Part of our new Schools Finance Bitesize training programme, this short session is designed to help busy schools business managers and adminsitrators gain valuable CPD in manageable chunks.  

Schools have a responsiblity under the Financial Regulations for Schools to demonstrate that any commercial activity, such as before and after school clubs, will meet its costs through income generation.  In this session, we will show you how to use Access Education Finance and Budgeting tools to help monitor your provision's income and expenditure through the use of cost ce ...

Are you a teacher in Year 4 who wants some advice and guidance on the Year 4 multiplication check?

Do you need some more ideas of how to secure those times tables facts before June?

If the answer is yes to either of these questions then this twilight is for you.

This twilight will take you through all the statutory guidance as well as giving ideas of how to support your learners with their times tables facts.

This course is aimed at teachers and teaching assistants in Year 4, and maths leaders.

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

The nationally established Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) course trains skilled teaching assistants to deliver interventions for emotionally vulnerable pupils. Trainee ELSAs attend 6 full training days and subsequently carry out supervised practice over the course of the year leading to ELSA certification. It is also a pre-requisite that ELSA line managers attend a 1 - 2 hour twilight session following Day 1 of the course.

The cost for this course is £720 per delegate, which includes six full days training, four subsequent supervision sessions, the published cours ...

This event replaces individual school appointments to discuss teacher assessments with the moderation team

‘Internal moderation is a non-statutory, but vital, process conducted in schools and where possible, with other schools’ (Teacher Assessment Guidance, DfE).

Teacher assessment of writing is important for schools monitoring their own impact and tracking pupils’ progress. At year 6, teacher assessment of writing takes on a unique visibility, and preparation for successful statutory moderation visits includes year-round robust as ...

All year 1 pupils who are able to access the phonics screening check will need to complete the check in June 2025. Any year 2 pupils who didn’t pass the screening check in year 1 will also need to complete the 2025 phonics screening check in June 2025.

The purpose of this briefing is to outline the phonics screening check process for year 1 or year 2 teachers who may be unfamiliar with this. It will provide an overview of the national guidance from STA on how to carry out this check as well as support teachers and other adults who will be administering the check ...

Anxiety is one of the top concerns for autistic people, their families, and the professionals who work with them. By listening to the voices of those with lived experience, we were able to create a module that helps others to understand how anxiety can impact on an autistic child’s daily life.

The module will help delegates to think about the reasonable adjustments that can be made to support young autistic children, with the aim of creating long lasting impactful change to the Early Years environment.      

This AET training is only availab ...

This year we are running a school-based maths project on mathematical automaticity for a group of 8 to 10 schools. Schools need to be based in Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire or South Gloucestershire as part of the project includes two bespoke visits.

To see if this is the right project for your school, please reflect on the statements below:

• Too many pupils at the end of KS2 are not secure with basic number facts and are unable to recall times tables facts.


• Some of our KS1 pupils are not able to recall simple number bonds and are still relyi ...