We will be covering Speech, Language and Communication Needs, Good
practice in Early Years and Accessibility/Managing Children with Physical
Disability and Medical needs.

Guest Speakers will be:

Elizabeth Fox - Speech and LanguageTherapist, SW lead, C&D Independent Speech &
Language Therapy

Linda Boyce Special Needs Advisor (PD) and pdnet Champion

SENCos may book on the date that suits them best.

An agenda will be sent after the half term break via email.

The new inspection framework puts the curriculum at the heart of inspection through the Quality of Education
strand. Subject leaders need to be able to clearly articulate the intent, implementation and impact in their
subject. Quality of education will be inspected through an approach using ‘deep dives’ into a selection of subjects where inspectors will gather evidence from a range of sources including lesson visits and workbook scrutiny. Conversations with leaders, teachers and pupils are central to the deep dive model. Inspectors will invite curriculum leaders and te ...

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.

New for this year we are running Maths Subject Leader meetings as a whole day in term 2 and a half day in term 4 instead of 3 separate sessions at the request of schools.

There will be an overarching theme that runs through the meetings of raising pupil standards in oracy and reasoning. At each meeting we will look at the latest research, key mesages from DfE and Ofsted as well as the  Education Endowment Foundation.

The first session will look at national data and local data, action plans and priorities together with the new Ofsted framework, looking at the i ...

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 ...