At the end of KS2 we still have not as many girls achieving EXS and Higher Attainment. This online session will look at the latest research around this, consider what the barriers for girls are and what teachers and schools can do to overcome these, both in lessons and within test situations.

As part of the course, you will receive additional resources to support you to develop this aspect of maths back in your school/classroom.

This course will support all KS2 teachers and Maths Subject Leaders.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details ...

Part of our new Schools Finance Bitesize training programme, this short training session is designed to help busy schools business managers and administrators gain valuable CPD in manageable chunks.  

Regular housekeeping in AEF will ensure your financial position is as accurate as possible.  During this session, we will show you how to:

• Review your outstanding purchase orders
• Review your transactions to ensure they have been correctly coded
• Run and aged debt report

Ensuring that your transactions in AEF are rele ...

Are you looking to create a more inclusive and supportive classroom environment that empowers every student to thrive?  Join our dynamic training session on enhancing Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) best practice, designed specifically for teachers like you.

This practical and engaging workshop for headteachers and teachers, will equip you with evidence-based strategies to recognise and address SEMH challenges, foster resilience, and promote positive behaviour in your classroom. Through expert guidance, real-world examples, and actionable techniques, you&r ...

With the largest percentage of every school’s 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 reconciliation 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 opportun ...

This module is intended to equip delegates with an understanding of the importance of play in the Early Years Foundation Stage and how the Three Areas of Difference in autism can impact on play skills. The module also considers how person-centred planning and making reasonable adjustments can enable autistic children to develop their play skills.   

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

The National Governance Association (NGA) has shown that 60% of schools and trusts report balancing their budgets as their biggest challenge.  In this session we discuss some of the areas that schools can review to identify efficiencies and potential savings. It will also be an opportunity for schools to share ideas that have worked for them which may be helpful to other schools. During the session we will look at:

• Staffing
• Income streams
• Expenditure
• Financial monitoring

The aim of this session is to support schools to take act ...

This twilight is for all year 6 teachers to ensure they are up to date with the statutory requirements for assessment for 2025. The briefing will update teachers on the administration of the SATS for reading, maths, and GPS, including access arrangements, disseminate the key information from both the assessment and reports arrangements and the teacher assessment guidance for Y6 writing moderation.

As part of the twilight teachers will get the following resources:

• A copy of the training PowerPoint
• Additional resources to use to support moderation and assessme ...
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This training is specifically aimed at senior leaders wanting concise but thorough training to recognise end of KS2 expectations for writing.

Headteachers are responsible for data submitted at the end of key stage 2, yet training to understand the national standards for writing is aimed at year 6 teachers and is prohibitively long for busy headteachers. Whilst Rome wasn’t built in a day, this brief course will give busy headteachers an insight into how writing is judged at the end of key stage 2. Knowledge which inevitably has implications for the teaching and ...

This course is an introduction to autism. It is most appropriate for colleagues with little or no experience of autism.

This training is suitable for any early years practitioner working in Reception, Nurseries, Pre-school settings and Childminders.

This course will be delivered online over 2 sessions and both sessions need to be attended to receive your course certificate. 

This AET training session is available to anyone working within Early Years at a school, e.g. reception class teachers, teaching assistants, SENCo, volunteers, lunchtime staff, EY profession ...

Supporting children to achieve the Greater Depth standard in writing by the end of KS2 starts with being able to recognise it when you see it. What is meant by ‘writing effectively’ at this standard and how can we recognise writers that ‘consciously control’ their choices? The standard is undoubtedly high – but how high? Are there practices which support or inadvertently hinder potential GDS writers? What can we learn from this standard to inform effective teaching for our most able writers throughout KS2?

This course will explore the GDS standard for w ...