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This course is predominantly classroom based. It will increase your knowledge & understanding of
the basic swimming requirements in a primary school swimming programme and health & safety
aspects in and around the pool area. This course will provide you with help and guidance on how to teach beginners to swim, developing through to the teaching of recognised strokes and water
proficiency. There will be lots of opportunities for Q & A and an opportunity to go poolside and cover teaching techniques.

SIMS Discover is the next generation of analysis software used with your SIMS database, which allows a wide range of data from SIMS to be interrogated in a clean, modern interface with simple drag and drop actions. Quick, clear data analysis allows earlier interventions to ensure you maximise the performance of your pupils. SIMS Discover enables your school to become not just data rich but more importantly, information rich. SIMS Discover is a valuable tool to help raise standards as well as measure attainment across a range of Data areas in SIMS simply. These areas include Attendance, Beha ...

This 3 hour session deepens understanding, including theories of autism. Delegates to have previously attended Good Practice in Autism Education.

The approach changed back in 2008 which gave clear guidance on how a part time teachers’ pay should be
calculated. STPCD recognised that all schools’ timetables are different and determined that a part time teachers’ pay should be calculated proportionately in relation to the teaching time of a full time teacher in the same school.

The old approach to paying in tenths of a week clearly breaches the document requirements and could be subject to challenge from both the individuals and the professional associations, and could bring significant claims of und ...

Current school staffing regulations (Keeping Children Safe in Education) require that at least one member of a school interview panel must have completed appropriate safer recruitment training. The session offered provides a refresher on the subject of Safer Recruitment in schools, for those individuals who have already completed an accredited Safer Recruitment training course. The course will consider developments in safer recruitment/safeguarding in schools, and discuss how issues have developed within the education setting.  The course will clarify requirements ...

Our two day conference is aimed at anyone who has responsibility for pupil or school wellbeing and anyone who is looking to promote or further develop oracy in their teaching or school. Teachers, middle and senior leaders are invited to join us to focus on this. 28 November will focus on wellbeing and 29 will focus on developing oracy. Join us for one or both days depending on your school priorities.

Creating a culture where wellbeing is promoted for staff and pupils can make a huge differen ...

This half day course is suitable for all teachers in KS1. The main outcomes for delegates will be an understanding of the 'Talk for Writing' approach; an ability to plan a teaching sequence which ensures balance of oral retelling, developing story language and KS1 grammar and a confidence in using modelled and shared writing to improve outcomes.

This one-day course meets the requirements of the HSE syllabus and covers the HSE Recommendations for training of an Appointed Person (the minimum requirement for first aid cover at work. Topics include CPR, dealing with an unconsciousness casualty, choking and Major Bleeding. Time is also given to discussing injuries and ailments common in the workplace, both inside and outside the school. Emphasis is placed on individual and group practice of the skills needed in life-threatening situations. This is underpinned by encouraging an understanding of both the processes and the reasoning behind ...

This Power BI training course is designed for secondary schools to enable them to design and create 3 dashboards for Pupil data, Attendance and Conduct.

This will be for a half day and will assume that you are familiar with creating SIMS reports in .csv format.

The course will include creating visualisations for clustered column charts, pupil interactive filters, tables and pie charts.

Participants will be able to transfer this knowledge to their own school and create a school specific dashboard.

Participants will be contacted and supplied with a se ...

This course explores how the Course Manager functionality of SIMS links areas such as Nova-T, Academic Management and Examinations Organiser, including procedures for supporting the maintenance of Post-16 learning aims. It is particularly aimed at school with post 16 students.
The course is advertised as a whole day but may finish earlier, depending on the requirements of delegates.