Revised budget visits take place during October and November with submission to Corporate Finance due by 30 November each year. As part of your subscribed service, your SFO prepares and reconciles information to ensure your data is correct and your visit is efficient.

This session will cover the preparation your SFO completes, how to complete the revised budget checklist (sent to all schools in September) and how you can prepare beforehand to assist and ensure your revised budget submission is accurate, achievable and that variances can be explained.

There will be plen ...

This course, aimed primarily at new Attendance Officers in Primary Schools, will cover statutory session Attendance requirements. New Secondary school Attendance officers using Lesson Monitor would also benefit from the course as the underlying principles and use of both products are similar.

This event is free to attend, for the first candidate attending from settings that subscribe to the IMS team's support service. There is a charge of £90 for any additional candidates attending the same event and for non-subscribing schools. If you have any queries about this event, or to ...

This training has been designed to support all practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum to develop their practice.

The training will support practitioners working directly with children on the autism spectrum or on the pathway to a diagnosis in early years settings.

This AET training is only available to Schools, Nurseries, Pre-school settings and Childminders within South Gloucestershire.

Good autism practice is a 6 hour course that will be delivered over 4 sessions

This AET training is only available to Schools, Nurseries, Pr ...

The nationally established Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) course trains skilled teaching assistants to deliver interventions for emotionally vulnerable pupils. Trainee ELSAs attend 6 full training days and subsequently carry out supervised practice over the course of the year leading to ELSA certification. It is also a pre-requisite that ELSA line managers attend a 1 ½ hour MS Teams twilight session following Day 1 of the course.

The cost for this course is £616 per delegate, which includes six full days training, four subsequent supervision sessions, the p ...

Last year, in conjunction with subject leaders, we wrote modified criteria to support writing assessment in non-statutory year groups as part of our Covid support for schools.

In response to requests from a considerable number of schools, we have now revised this so that the statements are fully aligned to the whole curriculum and can be used from 2022 onwards to support writing assessment and moderation. To support teachers, we are running a twilight session to share the rationale behind the criteria and explain how the statements should be used to support accurate assessment. ...

Last year, in conjunction with subject leaders, we wrote modified criteria to support writing assessment in non-statutory year groups as part of our Covid support for schools.

In response to requests from a considerable number of schools, we have now revised this so that the statements are fully aligned to the whole curriculum and can be used from 2022 onwards to support writing assessment and moderation. To support teachers, we are running a twilight session to share the rationale behind the criteria and explain how the statements should be used to support accurate assessment. ...

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 complies with updated DfE safer recruitment guidance for schools. The session is suitable for participants who are new to the subject of Safer Recruitment, and participants will be fully accredited in Safer Recruitment. The course includes consideration of the different types of abuse; how abusers operate; safeguarding within recruitment and selection procedures, including the use ...

Being able to read is the key to the rest of the curriculum. For Year 2 pupils, this means that securing expectations is essential if they are to enter KS2 ready to make the shift from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn.'

As such, this course will support Year 2 teachers in developing their subject knowledge of the reading curriculum. It will consider the skills children need to develop in Year 2 and how to teach these effectively; what makes an effective evidence base for reading and the requirements of the teacher assessment framework.

This session is a must for Year ...

Year 2 is always a challenging year. Making sure that teachers are clear about curriculum expectations; know what these look like in practice and are confident in mapping provision are key to success.

As such, this course will support Year 2 teachers in developing their subject knowledge of the writing curriculum, with a focus on both grammar and composition. It will consider key elements of the writing curriculum; what constitutes an effective teaching sequence; how to ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for writing and the teacher assessment framework. There wil ...

Last year, in conjunction with subject leaders, we wrote modified criteria to support writing assessment in non-statutory year groups as part of our Covid support for schools.

In response to requests from a considerable number of schools, we have now revised this so that the statements are fully aligned to the whole curriculum and can be used from 2022 onwards to support writing assessment and moderation. To support teachers, we are running a twilight session to share the rationale behind the criteria and explain how the statements should be used to support accurate assessment. ...