Schools rely upon good solid budget plans and regular monitoring to survive the inevitable twists and turns that the school year provides. Accurate budget monitoring reports provide the necessary information about a schools’ spending patterns and assist the schools’ management or finance staff to recognise and provide realistic forecasts. Good financial management in schools essentially comes from maintaining knowledge, this is achieved through accurate budget monitoring.

This can be significant and could result in the school making key decisions on data which is not acc ...

Bringing school catering in-house can give schools more control over food quality, pricing and staff employment terms.  However, the process of moving the provision away from a third party provider can seem a little daunting.  It requires thorough planning, understanding of legal obligations and clear financial forecasting.

This session will be an information sharing session, where we will provide you with a starting point for things that need to be considered and an overview of the process.  We have also invited SBM's that have gone through the process themselves and ...

Part of our new Schools Finance Bitesize training programme, this short session (back by popular demand) is designed to help busy schools' business managers and administrators gain valuable CPD in manageable chunks.  

Schools have a responsibility 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 ...

Mark, Liz, Stephanie and Justine would like to invite you to join them for a short twilight session where you can meet the team and find out more about them and what they can offer you as a school, group of schools or MAT.

This free briefing is for any school/MAT.

As we approach the end of this academic year, you and your colleagues are no doubt starting to think about 2025-26, new classes, new staff, new priorities.

You may be considering these questions:

What are the needs for your school?
What is the data telling you?
Do other schools have the ...

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 ...
  Course Code: MATH/24/094
  

Mediated Learning Support Assistant/Approach (MeLSA) is a training and supervision programme designed by educational psychologists to build the capacity of schools to support skilled and independent learning.

MeLSA provides training to individuals (called MeLSAs) that work directly with children and young people. This accessible, interactive, and evidence-based training ensures that MeLSAs understand the psychology of mediating learning and gain the skills to assist a child or young person to become a more skilled and independent learner.

MeLSAs are supporte ...