This short 1 ½ hour webinar is suitable for anyone who has regularly used this policy and is looking to refresh themselves on the principles of managing sickness absence. This overview will cover best practice principles and will ensure your actions are in line with relevant procedures.

The course is particularly useful for Headteachers and other managers of staff in schools.

The cost for this course is £45 for HR subscribing schools and £75 for non-subscribing.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access ...

Do you know what DFC is? What can you spend it on? What can’t you spend it on? How or when you use revenue funding to pay for a capital project? How do you account for it in Civica?

All these questions and more will be answered in this session. We will be joined by Caroline Walsh from the Corporate Capital team so if there is anything you ever wanted to know about Capital income and spending, please come along.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask your own questions during the session.

Open to all South Gloucestershire maintained school staff with finan ...

This course follows on from the introductory course ‘Making Sense of Autism’. Delegates can attend if they have not attended the introductory course.

Good Autism Practice will build on your basic awareness of autism and help you to develop your knowledge and understanding of autistic pupils. It will help you develop strategies and tools for support and also inform you about ways to assess the progress of your autistic pupils.

Good Autism Practice is a 6 hour course that will be split into four parts as follows:

Part 1 - Thursday 30 September  – ...

This will support NQTs and early career teachers (ECTs) to be successful in their induction year. The seminar will provide all the statutory information about what to expect from the year. Useful resources and proformas to support the induction process will be shared. It will also signpost NQTs/ECTs to professional development opportunities. This is also a great opportunity to begin to develop your support network and meet other NQTs/ECTs in South Gloucestershire and surrounding areas. There will also be a focus on professional development in your NQT year. Developing your NQT portfolio can ...

This course is for SENCOs in the first few years after qualifying, initially it will be delivered online with the aspiration for some face-to-face meetings later in the year.

Session 1 - Working with families and the agencies that support them

Session 2 - High Quality TEaching - top of your list

Session 3 - South Glos Way APDR identifying needs and using assessment to understand and meet needs

Session 4 - Courageous Conversations  

Session 5 - Approaches to meeting complex needs?

Session 6 - Approaches to meeting Complex needs?

With the largest percentage of every schools’ expenditure being on staffing costs, it is essential that all schools undertake regular payroll reconciliations. A good payroll reconciliation will be a thorough check of expected employee costs per month to actual employee costs. An effective monitor should not only identify incorrect staffing forecasts, but also incorrect payments to staff, creating a ‘win-win’ situation.

During this session we will show you how to use the payroll reconciliation function in HCSS.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask qu ...

These workshops follow on from the session presented on 13 September which provided an overview of inspection. There are 3 workshops in the course which focus on different aspects of expectations on schools. 

Schools within the Ofsted window have been invited to this training and are able to send 3 people - headteachers, Chair of governors (or their representative) and another senior leader. 

Workshop 1:   Statutory elements of inspection with a focus on Safeguarding and SEND.

4th October from 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm at Resound (Emerso ...

Want to get your teachers and pupils excited about science again? Not sure how to teach all the 'Working Scientifically' skills? Are you looking for a new set of engaging, fun, scientific activities to teach the units of the national curriculum? Need ideas of how to make those cross curricular links? Then this course is for you!

Our new science scheme of work has been written collaboratively by a group of South Glos science leaders together with Tom Holloway from the Primary Science Teaching Trust.

The National Curriculum for science intends that pupils understanding of the ...

This session will concentrate on examining the staff variances thrown up when producing a budget monitoring report.

There are many things that can initially result in large variances against staffing. Anticipated pay rises, maternity, leave without pay, overtime are all areas that need manual adjustments calculated to ensure your expected outturn is accurate.

This session will take you through how to identify & explain genuine variances and how & why adjustments need to be made.

We recommend you attend the Budget Monitoring in HCSS (snapshots) course prior to ...