Training to support SEND and inclusion

The following training courses are offered by Warwickshire's SEND and Inclusion service. For full details, including costs and how to book, please click the title of each course to view the attached flyer.

Talking Partners

Talking Partners is a structured oral language programme which raises levels of achievement by improving learner’s listening and speaking skills.

Target audience: Teacher and TA required to attend to run programme successfully

Talking Partners Primary: 1.5 day training course: 8^th and 15^th Feb 2019 at Northgate House, Warwick

Talking Partners Secondary: 1.5 day training course: 22^nd and 29^th March 2019 at Northgate House, Warwick

Fischer Family Trust Wave 3 Programme

This is a three-day training package designed for the class teacher and the teaching assistant. They will be expected to deliver a programme aimed at Year 1 children who despite targeted interventions have made little progress.

When & where: 1^st, 8^th and 15^th March 2019 at Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

Target audience: It is essential that a teaching assistant who has worked within the Literacy Hour delivers the programme.

Assessing EAL new arrivals: build EAL capacity in your school

1.5 day training course. Two free funded places for all local authority primary schools.

When & where: 8^th March 2019, 9.30am – 4pm & 15^th March 2019, 9.30am – 12.30pm at Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

Target audience:  An essential criteria for participating schools is to send two staff members, ideally one senior teacher coordinating whole school provision and one TA to deliver direct pupil support.

Mike Askew Expert Event - "First Among Equals: The importance of reasoning in primary mathematics"

The course will cover: The three curriculum aims and how they relate to teaching for mastery; why is reasoning so important in primary mathematics and making a start on reasoning.

When & where: 18^th March 2019, 9.15am – 3pm,  Nuneaton

Target audience: Primary headteachers. Senior Leaders, Mathematics Subject Leaders

Inference Training: improve students ‘ reading, vocabulary and comprehension

When & where: 25^th March 2019, 9.30am – 4pm, Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

Target audience: SENCos, teachers and teaching assistants

Autism Education Trust Training Tier 2

Develop capacity to meet the needs of Pupils on the Autism Spectrum

When & where: 29^th March 2019, 9am to 3.30pm, Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

Target audience: For all professionals working with pupils with Autism across educational settings

Maths learning difficulties – exploring successful strategies to support

When & where: 21^st May 2019, 1pm to 4pm at Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

Target audience: TAs, LSA, teachers and SENCos who wish to explore maths difficulties further in the primary phase