All year 1 pupils who are able to access the phonics screening check will need to complete the check in June 2025. Any year 2 pupils who didn’t pass the screening check in year 1 will also need to complete the 2025 phonics screening check in June 2025.

The purpose of this briefing is to outline the phonics screening check process for year 1 or year 2 teachers who may be unfamiliar with this. It will provide an overview of the national guidance from STA on how to carry out this check as well as support teachers and other adults who will be administering the check ...

Anxiety is one of the top concerns for autistic people, their families, and the professionals who work with them. By listening to the voices of those with lived experience, we were able to create a module that helps others to understand how anxiety can impact on an autistic child’s daily life.

The module will help delegates to think about the reasonable adjustments that can be made to support young autistic children, with the aim of creating long lasting impactful change to the Early Years environment.      

This AET training is only availab ...

This event replaces individual school appointments to discuss teacher assessments with the moderation team

Whilst end of KS1 assessments became non-statutory from September 2023, this continues to be an important point to mark pupils’ achievements before they move into a new stage of the curriculum. Many schools will continue to rely on data at the end of year 2 to help to track the progress of their pupils and ensure resources are effectively deployed to support all cohorts, groups and individuals.

This event will support schools to maintain an o ...

To support schools selected for a KS2 LA moderation visit, we are once again running our KS2 Meet the Moderator sessions for schools. This face-to-face session is aimed at Year 6 teachers and members of SLT whose schools have been identified for a KS2 LA moderation visit in June 2025.  The briefing will support you as a school to prepare for your KS2 moderation visit.

Schools who have attended similar sessions in the past have found them to be very helpful and reassuring. At this meeting, we will share the statutory guidelines for assessment and moderation ...

To support schools selected for a KS2 LA moderation visit, we are once again running our KS2 Meet the Moderator sessions for schools. This online session is aimed at Year 6 teachers and members of SLT whose schools have been identified for a KS2 LA moderation visit in June 2025.  The briefing will support you as a school to prepare for your KS2 moderation visit.

Schools who have attended similar sessions in the past have found them to be very helpful and reassuring. At this meeting, we will share the statutory guidelines for assessment and moderation in mo ...

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.

This can be significant and could result in the school making key decisions on data which is not acc ...

Bringing school catering in-house can give schools more control over food quality, pricing and staff employment terms.  However, the process of moving the provision away from a third party provider can seem a little daunting.  It requires thorough planning, understanding of legal obligations and clear financial forecasting.

This session will be an information sharing session, where we will provide you with a starting point for things that need to be considered and an overview of the process.  We have also invited SBM's that have gone through the process themselves and ...

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

Schools have a responsibility under the Financial Regulations for Schools to demonstrate that any commercial activity, such as before and after school clubs, will meet its costs through income generation.  In this session, we will show you how to use Access Education Finance and Budgeting tools to help monitor your provision's income and expenditure ...

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 - 2 hour twilight session following Day 1 of the course.

The cost for this course is £720 per delegate, which includes six full days training, four subsequent supervision sessions, the published cours ...

This year we are running a school-based maths project on problem solving and reasoning for a group of 8 to 10 schools. Schools need to be based in Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire or South Gloucestershire as part of the project includes two bespoke visits.

To see if this is the right project for your school, reflect on the questions below:

• Do you have pupils who panic when faced with a problem-solving task?
• When faced with a word problem or an explain your reasoning task, are some pupils unsure where to start or what strategy to choose?
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Course Code: MATH/24/095