Training for all headteachers on school to school support

** This training is offered for all headteachers of LA maintained schools and academies in Warwickshire **

The Local Authority is offering this half-day training for headteachers as part of the support and challenge in school to school support.

The training will be led by Ed Carter who has a proven track record of rapid school improvement solutions across primary and secondary schools in numerous authorities. Ed was previously headteacher of two outstanding schools in Solihull and is now an independent school improvement and leadership consultant.

Currently this role is carried out by LA officers in the form of Task Groups. As we move towards a school led system from September, there is a need to develop a model for support and challenge for schools experiencing difficulty, led by schools.

The morning session will be divided into two parts:

• Part one is about what a Task Group is and how the system works currently, with some information and exploration of why this method works.

• Part two is an opportunity for schools to discuss together how this could work in consortia, from September. 

The training is offered in five areas across the county and will run from 9.00am to 1.00pm. Refreshments will be provided.

Please select from the dates below and book using the online form to confirm your place.

EAST 15 May 2017 Space @ WCG Rugby College

NORTH 18 May 2017 The CHESS Centre, Nuneaton

NUN/BEDS 19 May 2017 Bulkington Community and Conferencing Centre

CENTRAL 22 May 2017 Pound Lane Learning Centre, Leamington

SOUTH 24 May 2017 Stratford Racecourse

Child sexual exploitation (CSE) awareness training

Warwickshire CSE Team delivers multi-agency training with the Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Board which is free to access for all professionals in Warwickshire. The full day training is recommended for DSL’s, Heads of Year and Pastoral staff and you can access the training via the WILMa website: warwickshire.learningpool.com

We recognise that it can be problematic for schools to release staff for multi-agency training and are therefore offering FREE CSE Awareness Raising Training for all Warwickshire Primary and Secondary schools to ensure that staff are able to identify and respond appropriately to concerns around Child Sexual Exploitation. We can tailor training and support to suit the needs of your staff teams and deliver directly at your school.

Child sexual exploitation is a very real issue for children and young people in Warwickshire and it is important for all universal services to understand how it happens, recognise the signs that it could be happening and know what to do if they have concerns.

For more information or to book training contact:  Katy Shipley (CSE Project Worker)   Email: katy.shipley@barnardos.org.uk          Telephone: 07702 338667

For more information about the Warwickshire ‘Something’s Not Right’ CSE Campaign please see the updated website at:  www.warwickshirecse.co.uk.

Warwickshire Child Sexual Exploitation Training

Places for any of the training dates can be booked via the WILMa Safeguarding website: http://warwickshire.learningpool.com/

Please contact Jackie Kerby or Katy Shipley for more information:

jackiekerby@warwickshire.gov.uk – Safeguarding Interagency Learning & Improvement manager

Katy.shipley@barnardos.org.uk – Barnardo’s CSE Project Worker

Please contact Katy if you would like to discuss training at your school for full or partial staff teams too.

Free Autism Spectrum Awareness through the Autism Education Trust

Free training for all staff within school-age education settings, mainstream and specialist services

The Autism Education Trust develops capacity to meet the needs of pupils on the Autism Spectrum, by improving the knowledge, skills and confidence of educational practitioners in understanding and responding to the needs of children and young people with Autism.

• It offers a nationally acclaimed, face-to-face, personalised, multi-tier training programme; supported and quality assured by the Department for Education
• Named in new Code of Practice as being a leading training provider of schools; whilst effectively meeting statutory regulations and requirements set out in new SEND legislation
• Addresses Ofsted’s concerns regarding the education of vulnerable learners with Autism; providing evidence for the new framework for school and setting inspections
• Provides evidence based measures of impact for when schools self- evaluate their own performance criteria
• Build capacity to meet the needs of pupils on the Autism spectrum through quality first teaching and learning; narrowing and closing the gap in holistic attainment for learners with Autism

Tier 1 Training – Making Sense of Autism; raising awareness
Basic Autism awareness training for all staff within school-age education settings, mainstream and specialist services. This includes teachers, teaching assistants, transport staff, governors, senior management, administrators, librarians and other relevant service staff.

It will support participants to:

• Identify the four key areas of difference that need to be taken into account when working with children and young people with Autism
• Know the importance of understanding the individual and their profile of strengths, as well as areas for development
• Identify the key areas to help pupils on the Autism spectrum build positive relationships with staff, peers, families and people in their wider community
• Develop an awareness of the sensory and communication differences that pupils on the Autism spectrum may experience.

Service: Vulnerable Learners Specialist Teaching Service
Time: 1 ½ hours for the whole session. This is usually delivered as a twilight session, but can also form part of a training day.
Cost: delivered free to all schools and settings as part of Warwickshire’s Local Offer for all children and young people with SEND

SEND Provision Matrix Reference:
This training course will provide the capacity to deliver support and interventions across all areas of the Universal Provision, and a majority of aspects of the Targeted Provision of Warwickshire’s SEND Provision matrix

To view the training flyer please click here

IDS Makaton two-day course with Regional Tutor Janet Dobbie.

Singing for Sounds

Designed and delivered by specialists in music for early years, this is a language acquisition programme, which uses a combination of songs, rhymes, and mouth and tongue exercises to support children’s speech and communication development.

Our half day course provides delegates with the opportunity to understand the foundations of the programme and explore and practise the contents. Feedback from previous courses means we are very confident that you will leave the course with your resource pack, ready to put Singing for Sounds into practice.

The training sessions cost £100 per person and includes a resource pack containing ten session plans and an accompanying CD of songs.

Singing for Sounds Training Workshop

Friday 9 June 2017 10 am—12 pm—Nursery Practitioners

Northgate House Conference Centre, Saltisford, Warwick, CV34 4JL

To book for this training workshop register on line at www.warwickshiremusichub.org/singing-for-sounds or call 01926 742959

Cost per individual for training workshop is £100

https://www.warwickshiremusichub.org/singing-for-sounds

Primary and secondary computing workshops

Free session led by Lat Blaylock for secondary RE teachers

The next RE TeachMeet will be held on Wednesday 3 May 2017, 4pm for a 4.30 start, at Avon Building, Westwood Campus, University of Warwick, CV4 8EE.

This is an opportunity for all teachers of RE to further develop their subject knowledge in relation to teaching key Christian and Islamic concepts at GCSE.

Lat Blaylock, RE online editor and author of a wide range of RE resources and articles, will be leading the session.

To register your interest, or to find out more, contact Rachel Cooper on r.a.cooper@warwick.ac.uk