This year, we are offering a series of sessions to support practitioners in Reception and Year 1. The impact of the pandemic is still being felt and many teachers are finding that pupils in Early Years and KS1 are struggling with language and communication.

This series of sessions, led by our Early Years expert, Justine Gregory, will look at various aspects of communication, language and literacy and provide support and guidance to help develop children’s skills.

Developing Communication Through Play

In this session, we will explore how we can ...

Year 6 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 examine the Year 6 writing expectations in detail, focusing on the demands of the Teacher Assessment Framework as well as the wider curriculum. The morning session will explore subject knowledge and progression, sharing strategies for teaching these skills in context, as well as exploring how to develop composition. In the afternoon, delegates will explore how ...

This short webinar will give an overview of pay and conditions for both teaching and support staff. The overview will cover the main principles of teachers pay and support staff pay, as well as pay discretions that are available to Governors. The session will focus on gaining an understanding of pay scales, understanding the issues involved with equal pay, how support staff pay is evaluated in broad terms, and key differences between teaching and support conditions. The session will allow questions to be explored and gives a good overview to those who are new to education, as well as a refr ...

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. ...

These hour-long sessions are for any Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 or Year 6 teachers that would like some support with planning. Whether it’s mapping out a teaching sequence; ideas for high quality texts; unpicking a key element of the curriculum or anything else, the time is yours to discuss anything that would be helpful. Come and pick our brains!

When booking, please can you add which year group/s you’re teaching so that the trainer knows in advance. It would be really helpful if you could also note the name of the text/s you’re using too.

Del ...

This course takes an introductory look at the importance of using visuals with autistic children and young people. It is appropriate for any colleague who is interested in autism. 

We will consider how visuals can support learning and why they are essential to support autistic children and young people. 

This course is suitable for colleagues working with children and young people aged 5 – 25. 

Training will be delivered online over a one hour session.  

This autism training session is available to anyone working in schools. It ...

There are 4 workshops in the course which focus on different aspects of expectations on schools to support school improvement and linked to the Education Inspection Framework. 

The course is open to all schools who may be due an inspection as well as schools wanting to improve their leadership in the context of national expectations.  You may find it useful to attend as a group of headteacher, Chair of governors and another senior leader.

Some of the sessions are face-to-face and some are online. The final session is online and additional subject leaders are i ...

The Getting It Right From The Start series aims to help develop subject knowledge, planning and assessment. Based on feedback and observations from the 2021-22 academic year, this three-part course provides a comprehensive package of support for Year 4 teachers.

Session 1:

A half day focusing on subject knowledge and planning. There will be a focus on the key elements of the writing curriculum; what constitutes an effective teaching sequence and how to ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for writing. ...

The Getting It Right From The Start series aims to help develop subject knowledge, planning and assessment. Based on feedback and observations from the 2021-22 academic year, this three-part course provides a comprehensive package of support for Year 5 teachers.

Session 1:

A half day focusing on subject knowledge and planning. There will be a focus on the key elements of the writing curriculum; what constitutes an effective teaching sequence and how to ensure the provision of appropriate opportunities for writing. ...

These surgeries provide an opportunity for teachers to discuss any pupils they would like support to assess. Year 6 teachers can bring along children's writing evidence and work alongside the LA moderator, who will provide advice and guidance about assessment and next steps in learning, as well as anything else that may be useful (such as planning ideas, text recommendations etc.)

Each session is on a 1:1 basis so only one person per school should book. Schools may send a second Year 6 teacher at no extra cost - please just add the name of any extra delegate into th ...