Pupils need to learn the features and conventions of different genres. Exposure to a rich range of genres and identification of key features will support this. Improving Literacy at KS2, EEF

The ability to read and comprehend non-fiction is a life skill. News articles, adverts, brochures, leaflets, letters, manuals, guides and recipes, to name a few, are all examples of texts that we engage with on a day-today basis to answer questions; to keep ourselves informed about the world and to find the information we need.

Understanding non-fiction is ...

Schools rely upon good solid budget plans and regular monitoring to survive the inevitable twists and turns that the school year provides. Accurate budget monitoring reports provide the necessary information about a schools’ spending patterns and assist the schools’ management or finance staff to recognise and provide realistic forecasts. Good financial management in schools essentially comes from maintaining knowledge, this is achieved through accurate budget monitoring. There are significant advantages of using HCSS to create a ‘snapshot’. Consider that you have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schools rely upon good solid budget plans and regular monitoring to survive the inevitable twists and turns that the school year provides. Accurate budget monitoring reports provide the necessary information about a schools’ spending patterns and assist the schools’ management or finance staff to recognise and provide realistic forecasts. Good financial management in schools essentially comes from maintaining knowledge, this is achieved through accurate budget monitoring. There are significant advantages of using HCSS to create a ‘snapshot’. Consider that you have a ...

There are significant changes to the way that statutory induction for new teachers is carried out. From September 2021 they will now be referred to as Early Career Teachers (ECTs) and will complete a 2-year induction under the guidance of the Early Career Framework (ECF). The role of the appropriate body is also undergoing some changes.

In order to provide schools with the most up to date information and help them to ease into the changes, this briefing will give schools an opportunity to find out what their responsibilities are, both from now and at the beginning of September 2021. ...

The Summer Reading Challenge is the UK’s biggest free reading promotion for primary school aged children. Available through public libraries and online, the Challenge provides fun reading for pleasure activities for all abilities and helps to prevent the summer reading ‘dip’ during the long break from school.

“My child's reading abilities have grown leaps and bounds!” (Parent, Patchway Library)

“My children love doing the reading challenge each year. Getting the medal and certificate is a real incentive to keep reading.” ...

This course takes a look at how autism presents in girls. It is appropriate for any colleague who is interested in autism. 

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 is also appropriate for governors, student teachers or anyone training to work in a school or with children and young people generally – social care, youth work, volunteers. 

This training ...

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 ...

This course is for South Gloucestershire Maintained Schools only.

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.