This 1 day course is for staff who may lead or train other staff in their setting - focusing on developing good autism provision.

Supporting children learning EAL

This network meeting aims to provide guidance and support
for those working with children learning EAL. It also provide opportunities for colleagues to meet and share ideas.

This session will focus on:

Funding for English as an Additional Language (EAL)

Tracking progress of children learning English as Additional Language.

Autism South West, Speaker Series

Event 2

This event will be facilitated by Keynote Speaker Dean Beadle

In 1998 Dean Beadle was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. Now, 20 years on,
Dean examines what being autistic means to him today.

In this talk, Dean will give insight into various topics such as: sensory needs,
special interests, anxiety, social/emotional needs, relationships, sexuality
and school life. This, like all of Dean's talks, is sure to make for a thought
provoking, insightful and ...

Aimed mainly at secondary schools in Multi Academy Trusts (but single site schools may also attend), this course will show Data Managers how to implement scheduled reporting in SIMS providing automated reporting to a shared location to support high end data analytics using a third party product such as Microsoft Power bi.

The course will explore:

• The importance of pupils continuing to speak their home language, using home languages in the classroom
• Pupils new to learning English as an additional language; supporting the acquisition of English and subject knowledge in the classroom
• More advanced learners of EAL; explicitly teaching academic language
• A culturally inclusive curriculum; how this supports pupils learning EAL
• The prospects for pupils with EAL (looking at evidence about attainment)
• Informing parents about the English education s ...
  Course Code: TAL/19/005
  

The course will cover SIMS Reporting to support day-to-day administration reporting procedures. This course is a full day to allow for plenty of time to practise. Please bring along any memory sticks as any reports you design on the day can be taken away with you and imported into your own SIMS system.

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 is aimed at individuals who have not previously been formally trained in the subject of Safer Recruitment, and complies with updated DfE statutory safer recruitment guidance for schools. The course includes consideration of the different types of abuse; how abusers operate; safeguarding within recruitment and selection procedures, including the use of DBS checks and promoting a safer work ...

This course aims to help administrative staff get the most from their SIMS system in terms of productivity and efficiency. We will look at maintaining a tidy database by removing duplicates. Also covered will be methods of internal communication within SIMS, creation of tailored User Defined Fields as well as other time saving hints like setting up shortcuts within SIMS .net.

This a two-day course originally approved and controlled by the National Childminders Association and the Pre-School Learning Alliance. Required by SureStart and the DFEE for those having the care of children up to the age of eight , is valid for children of all ages. The programme includes CPR using adult, child and baby manikins, dealing with an unconsciousness casualty, choking and major bleeding. Aside from the skills for life-threatening situations the management of small casualties is included, particularly in relation to head injuries, casualty assessment and various forms of minor b ...