This Legionella Awareness course is designed to help employers, workers and duty holders, such as business managers, caretakers and site managers, understand the severity of legionella so that they can determine their responsibilities, identify the risks and ensure appropriate control measures are put in place.

The Financial Regulations for Schools have been refreshed and updated to reflect current practice. A consultation providing an opportunity to comment on their contents ended on the 30th January 2019. The Regulations are now effective and must be followed with immediate effect.

The Regulations apply to all maintained schools. Headteachers and Finance Staff within a school need a diverse range of financial knowledge, it is essential that they are familiar with, and able to apply good systems of internal control.

This session has been organised to raise awareness of t ...

This half day course will delve deeper into how to implement Positive Discipline strategies in using experiential learning methods which will give you the skills to help students practice better cooperation, social skills, self-direction, responsibility and mutual respect in the classroom.

Instead of using rewards and punishments (proven by research to be ineffective long-term), these tools help teachers understand the "belief behind the behaviour" (the driving force behind the behaviour) and then how to use encouraging methods such as involving students in focusing on solutio ...

As some of the administrative tasks around maintaining the school timetable from the timetabler to the Data support Manager. This course will offer those unfamiliar with T6 the opportunity to work through a number of exercises to support timetable changes during the year. Combined with this course will be complete coverage of how best to use Academic Management to support the management of pupil class memberships in SIMS. Delegates wishing to attend for only half of the course should contact the course facilitator prior to the date.

The Financial Regulations for Schools have been refreshed and updated to reflect current practice. A consultation providing an opportunity to comment on their contents ended on the 30th January 2019. The Regulations are now effective and must be followed with immediate effect.

The Regulations apply to all maintained schools. Headteachers and Finance Staff within a school need a diverse range of financial knowledge, it is essential that they are familiar with, and able to apply good systems of internal control.

This session has been organised to raise awareness of t ...

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

This half day course will support subject leaders in reflect on current school moderation practice
of mathematics. There will be time to discuss what a robust evidence base for pupils’ looks like including the use of tests. There will be time to carry out some cross school moderation. The focus will be on the non-statutory reporting groups – y1, 3, 4 and 5 at the end of term 6.

Autism South West Speaker Series

Event 3

"Less blood, less sweat, less tears - being an autistic teenager in a female body."

This event will be facilitated by Keynote Speaker Robyn Steward.

At this event, Robyn will talk about her new book ‘The autism friendly guide to periods’, which is about puberty for autistic people in a female body and those who support them.

Robyn is autistic and has worked in autism for over 10 years, providing mentoring, consultancy and training all over the world including Russia, Australia and USA. She is ...

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 ...