At the end of the course participants will have a clear understanding of;
• what’s required by everyone undertaking the EVC role,
• the principles of basic safety away from school,
• what’s required by School policy, procedure and Code of Practice
• what’s required to safely and adequately prepare for outdoor learning and off site visits,
• common risks and how to manage them,
• latest developments, case law and best practice.

The morning session will be classroom based with an outdoor activity ...

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.

This course will equip you to lead RE in your school as a compelling and challenging subject that stretches pupil’s learning. You will be able to communicate to other staff the expectations of the subject, know how to monitor its effectiveness and have some ideas to make RE fun and also contribute uniquely to students SMSC development.

The first hour will be cross phase and then delegates will be separated into Primary and Secondary for the rest of the session.

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 a free briefing to demonstrate the new functionality in Smart Software.    The session will cover the latest development in the smart 16 version of the software.   There will be an opportunity to see a range of  tools working in practice and to ask questions about how the software can engage learners and encourage more collaboration in whole class teaching sessions.  

This course is suitable for teachers in primary and secondary.

Session 4 - SEN writing and managing the onslaught of paperwork; the vocabulary of SEN, writing reports, reviews and outcomes, managing review meetings and challenging situations.

Each session will provide opportunities to explore and question current practice.

An interactive half-day course with activities, exercises, quizzes, case studies and group work covering various problem areas encountered with medicines management and competency assessment in schools.

This session is aimed at School Administrators and Headteachers. It will ensure schools apply STP&CD rules in relation to:

• Calculating contractual hours of part time teachers
• Calculating non-teaching directed time for part time teachers
• Requiring part time teachers to attend inset/staff meetings/parents evenings, etc