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Many teachers are confused about how to Lead an Area of Learning and Experience. This half-day zoom course will explore the importance of the role within the new curriculum and how to get this into perspective; what effective curriculum design, provision and medium-term planning may look in and across AoLEs; how to establish assessment and progression across the AoLE; how to effectively lead and manage an AoLE, including how to monitor, evaluate and action plan for excellent provision. There will be time for AoLE leads to have input, discussion, and share their concerns. As part of the session, delegates will receive a copy of the Leading your AoLE booklet worth £75 available in Welsh and English.
- A condensed version of the full-day course previously delivered, featuring top tips and highlights on how to make the most of your monitoring time for LLC – and literacy across the curriculum.
- Developing effective, manageable systems for monitoring oracy, reading and writing – to improve standards and enrich provision.
- Practical strategies to involve all staff and stakeholders to improve systems, develop a whole school understanding of priorities and ease the burden on senior leaders and AOLE leads.
- Top tips on assessing standards –listening to learners, evaluating pupils’ work and using data effectively.
- Improving your SDP/SIP and maximising its impact on teaching and learning.
Looking for something to help you to support your pupils in physical computing?
ArtecRobo could be just what you need to meet the following AoLE statements:
- I can follow instructions to build and control a physical device (PS2)
- I can use sensors and actuators in systems that gather and process data about the systems’ environment (PS3)
Exhibited at this year’s BETT show – check out the video below to see what the kit can do.
A half-day online course to build your own oracy policy. Pupils learning to talk and talking to learn.
Effective classroom talk energises learning. We know that pupils who can talk together are productive, enthusiastic, focused and engaged learners.
This online course introduces you to The Oracy Map, a tool to help you to create your own bespoke whole school oracy policy.
With the Welsh Government setting up a National task force on Attendance it is safe to assume a drive to improve School Attendance figures will follow suit. Let’s be prepared…
This course will look at good practice for supporting pupils with Anxiety. You will learn about various strategies and ways to support your pupil’s needs. You will deepen your knowledge of anxiety and anxiety based disorders. You will be signposted to relevant support and have access to coaching and guidance moving forwards.
- developing the critical skills of middle leaders
- building teams and developing effective team dynamics
- developing effective skills to support performance management
- personal development: applications, interviews and improving presentation skills
As children progress through the Primary Phase into Secondary Education, key missed opportunities can impact on learning. This course is designed to support ALL practitioners at any stage in teaching. You will focus on crucial information around child development that can impact on learning and prevent progression. Practical strategies and workshop based activities will bring theory and practice together to identify possible reasons as to why learning becomes challenging in mainstream classrooms.
Listening has a higher priority in the LLC AoLE, but what does this mean on a day by day and class by class basis for us working in schools in Wales?
Helen Bowen will explore the concept of listening in the primary classroom and will outline what, why and how we can develop this important aspect of our LLC provision.
We will explore the expectations in the LLC AoLE and colleagues will receive a toolkit of listening activities that can be used to map this strategically across Progression Steps.
Many schools need help to see what practical assessment looks like in the CfW. After creating Assessment IN Learning with Gareth Coombes, this program aims to take these concepts deeper. It looks at what effective research suggests teachers should be doing, what this should look like in the classroom and what strategies work. As part of the programme, we will examine how teachers can use their planning effectively to plan for, and demonstrate progress, in a lesson and over time.
The Course Objectives include:
- What is Assessment IN Learning
- What are Inspection agencies looking to see regarding effective assessment IN Learning?
- What strategies work best in the classroom to promote Assessment “IN” Learning?
- Which strategies will work for you in your context?
- How can you build your brand for assessment IN Learning across the school?
Action Planning to Drive Improved Reading Lessons
A half-day online course to raise reading standards.
Research tells us a lot about what works in a reading classroom and signposts whole school initiatives that definitely raise standards.
This online course helps teachers to consider what skills need to be developed to support novice readers to become fluent and independent readers.
The Minister for Education and Skills has acknowledged that high quality CPD for teachers and teaching assistants can break the link between educational attainment and poverty. Research is unequivocal that classroom level approaches shown to be particularly effective at raising the attainment of children living in low-income households combine: quality literacy/oracy teaching, positive learning environments, peer tutoring; formative assessment and feedback; structured group work/cooperative learning; and meta-cognitive strategies as well as high levels of teacher commitment and resilience.
This one-day practical programme, led by Huw Duggan (Former strategic advisor for closing the gap), will focus on ‘why’ and ‘how’ to close the achievement gap in the classroom.
This exciting, hands-on course will explore the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) at PS2 and PS3. This is a fundamental tool in engineering and product design.
The software used is free of charge and should be installed before attending the course. (Details will be sent to prospective attendees). Delegates will be instructed in the use of the software and will design and make a number of artefacts using a CAD process.
According to the School census Wales 2023… There were 10,485 pupils with Individual Development Plans under the new ALN system in maintained schools (16.6% of pupils with ALN or SEN), up from 3,330 (4.5%) at February 2022
https://www.gov.wales/schools-census-results-headline-statistics-january-2023
The requirement is clearly there –so how do we make sure we are addressing the needs of all our pupils?
Join us for a day of problem solving! We will discuss many behaviours and additional learning needs and how to effectively support pupils.
This course will look at good practice in the mainstream classroom. You will learn about various strategies and ways to attune to your pupil’s needs. You will have the opportunity to access observations made by specialist teaching. These will be presented as examples for you to take back to school and support pupils who may be struggling or identified as having ALN.
The LLC AoLE has a clear expectation for pupils to experience a broad literature range that includes texts by Welsh authors set in and around Wales as well as texts that are set in other cultures.
Join Helen Bowen for a half day session where she will share her extensive knowledge of children’s literature that can be used across PS1, 2 and 3. The literature range will include picture books, novels, film, art as well as many free national resources that are available to schools.
The half-day session will include extensive book lists as well as examples of activities that we can use to unlock the content of the literature and stimulate oracy reading and writing.
An essential event for LLC leads and those leading on making links across Wales and the wider world!
This day will be an opportunity to think and talk about mathematical reasoning and its importance in the teaching and learning of mathematics.
We will explore:
- What we mean by reasoning and why we need to develop it;
- How to communicate our reasoning both orally and in written form;
- How to develop the language we need to communicate our reasoning;
- Ways to give learners the opportunity to reason in all maths lessons;
- How to improve reasoning skills;
- Practical ideas to be used in the classroom.
The course aims to give participants a clearer idea of what reasoning looks like in the classroom and some top tips for teaching it.
- The importance of developing gross and fine motor skills – ideas for activities and games to support early development.
- Understanding stages of mark making and emergent writing – and the importance of celebrating early success.
- Understanding pencil grip and hand dominance.
- Linking handwriting to the teaching of phonics.
- The three stages of teaching formal handwriting- steps to success.
- Choosing a style for your school.
- Creating a successful school policy.