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These three online sessions will focus on supporting teachers through the year with planning, teaching, and assessing within a mixed age class.

Session 1   This session will focus on planning with mixed ages. The main focus will be on matching objectives within the number strands of the curriculum.

Session 2   This session will support teachers in class organisation and teaching with mixed age classes. There will also be a focus on the matching objectives within other strands of the curriculum.

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This is a free training course for HR for Schools subscribing primary and secondary schools, to provide essential HR and payroll processing related information to support new SBMs and School Administrators new to their role. It is also a great refresher course for those who have previously attended or been in post a while. The employee lifecycle procedures course aims to give you the necessary information in order to effectively carry out the HR administrative and contractual side of your role.

Content covered includes: 

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The Getting It Right From The Start series aims to help develop subject knowledge, planning and assessment. Based on feedback and observations from the 2021-22 academic year, this three-part course provides a comprehensive package of support for Year 3 teachers.

Session 1:

A half day focusing on subject knowledge and planning. There will be a focus on the key elements of the writing curriculum; what constitutes an effective teaching sequence and how to ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for writing. ...

We are aware that there are so many things going on in school 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, both at a local and national level.
At each meeting we will share the latest in research, national reports and guidance as well as take a focus on a core aspect of mathematics. Over the year, based on school feedback we will be looking at the progression in bar modelling, how to support reading and oracy in mathematics - specifically how to support problem solving, as well as mani ...

This course will support KS1 Teachers and Science Leaders with how to teach the working scientifically strand of the primary science curriculum.
It will:

• Explore the scientific skills that need to be taught during KS1 (including the different types of scientific enquiry).


• Provide practical guidance on how to teach different scientific skills during science lessons.


• Explore strategies for assessing the scientific skills (including sign-posting free, high-quality resources).


• Provide guidance on how to ensure that the scientific skills are app ...

Teachers need to make a teacher assessment for maths and reading as well as writing using the national teacher frameworks in reading, writing and maths.

The final teacher assessment at the end of KS1 for 2023 also means school may have external moderation visits and part of their focus is on reading and maths. Teachers will need to administer KS1 tests in reading and maths only.
This course focuses on the expectations for reading and maths and is for all year 2 teachers to ensure they are up to date with the statutory requirements for assessment for 2023.
As part of the c ...

In June 2023 all Year 2 teachers will need to make a teacher assessment using the national teacher frameworks in reading, writing and maths.  As in 2022, Year 2 teachers need to be familiar with the teacher assessment frameworks as well as the reading and maths tests. There will also be the continuation of external moderation visits to a sample of schools in June 2023.

This twilight is for all year 2 teachers to be make sure they are up to date with the statutory requirements for assessment for 2023 and are aware of the feedback from visits from this year’s cycle.

This is a four-session course to support subject leaders in their roles of monitoring improvement within their subject. Sessions will focus on the core aspects of leadership and management through taking a detailed dive into their subjects and linking to expectations of the Ofsted Inspection Framework. Sessions will cover:
1. Overview of the context for effective subject leadership including understanding your role in monitoring and evaluating in the context of the Ofsted framework.
2. Evaluating your curriculum including linking to the whole school vision, intent for your subject ...

Statutory SEND Processes training.

This training is in 2 parts and is free to all South Gloucestershire SENCOs or any school, college or early years setting that has a South Gloucestershire pupil.

Please book onto each part separately.

Part 1
Making a request for a Education Health and Care Plan Needs Assessment.

The course will include:

• Good practice in delivering a graduated approach.
• Familiarisation with the South Gloucestershire decision making guidance.
• Familiarisation with South Glouces ...

This course is for SENCOs who have completed the taught element of the national award in the past few years initially it will be delivered online with the aspiration for some face-to-face meetings later in the year.

Session 1:

SENCo life after the national award

Session 2:

South Glos Way - APDR using assessment to identify understand and meeting need. Annual reviews and Moderation. Precise identification of need

Session 3:

Relational approaches to meeting SEMH

Session 4:

Courageous Conversations working ...