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This full-day practical course will cover the coding aspect of the Science & Technology AoLE (WM6).
The morning session will focus on coding progression from PS1 to PS3, focusing on Bee-Bot, turtle on-screen, LOGO, BBC micro:bit and Scratch.
The afternoon session will focus on an introduction to ‘robotics’ using the Artec Robo ‘Early Education Kit’ to build and control a physical device (PS2) and to code (PS3) Each delegate will receive the kit to take back to their school.
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A half-day online course to maximise the impact of guided reading lessons.
Do you want to revisit guided reading to make it a more effective part of your reading policy?
This course will help you to refresh these sessions with new activities and tools to engage pupils and explore ways to make planning easier for teachers.
We will:
- Examine the structure of a guided reading lesson and consider how to focus on a learning intention
- Look at ways to begin a session with an energetic starter to enhance pupils’ vocabulary banks and help them to understand how language works.
- Consider how to include stopping points to promote discussion about a text’s features
- Explore tools and activities that will help pupils to investigate text
With a new toolkit, you can strengthen your school’s guided reading programme.
This course looks at the progression of Science & Technology skills, which highlight the rich opportunities for literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
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.
The course will cover:
- What is anxiety?
- What is an anxiety disorder?
- How is Anxiety affecting Attendance?
- Truancy V Emotionally Based School Avoidance
- Teaching and learning strategies
- Working with parents
- Sharing of good practice and case studies
This full-day practical course will cover the coding aspect of the Science & Technology AoLE (WM6).
The morning session will focus on coding progression from PS1 to PS3, focusing on Bee-Bot, turtle on-screen, LOGO, BBC micro:bit and Scratch.
The afternoon session will focus on an introduction to ‘robotics’ using the Artec Robo ‘Early Education Kit’ to build and control a physical device (PS2) and to code (PS3) Each delegate will receive the kit to take back to their school.
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How skilled and confident are your staff in teaching effective STEM?
D&T is an exciting and natural area to develop and support the four purposes and 12 pedagogical principles of the new curriculum. Learn how, through experiencing the challenges for yourself, before teaching them in the classroom.This is a hands-on session, where delegates will develop their understanding of the different areas in Design and Technology through practical team challenges.
This course will also look at progression from PS1 to PS 3.
There will be a focus on mechanical systems – linkages and gears using construction kits. All delegates will go home with a Robotics kit to use with the children back in class.
This course looks at the progression of Science & Technology skills, which highlight the rich opportunities for literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
A half-day online course to reboot the teaching of reading comprehension
The 3-part reading lesson facilitates the development of reading comprehension as outlined in WM2 whilst teaching pupils to respond to and appreciate text. It promotes high quality discussion of ideas and concepts.
This course provides teachers with a clear framework to teach fiction and non-fiction to the whole class.
It will:
- Show teachers how to organise a 3-part reading lesson.
- Provide teachers with a bank of resources to investigate fiction and non-fiction texts.
- Explain how to build a community of readers who support each other to explore ideas and concepts.
Working as a class or in groups and pairs supports pupils’ growing ability to read independently. The 3-part lesson is also effective and enjoyable.
Delegates will also receive a course booklet to support implementation of this approach.
‘Over the next two years, £8.8m will be provided to increase school engagement and attendance including £1.5m to provide greater capacity for Family Engagement Officers (FEOs) to support learners with attendance’
https://www.gov.wales/extra-funding-family-engagement-officers-drive-boost-school-attendance
The role of the family Engagement Officer has emerged over the last few years and is now being encouraged by Welsh Assembly Government.
Are you an F.E.O? Or do you want an F.E.O in your School?
Join us for a information packed session of step-by-step ideas and suggestions. Whether you are new to the role or want to review existing policies and practises, this course is for you.
The course will cover:-
- Where to start?
- The role of the F.E.O
- Attendance
- Supporting pupil’s with barriers to learning
- Making school a more positive experience for learners and families
- Relationship building
- Holistic approach
- Establishing initiatives and running projects
- Signposting
- Crisis aversion
According to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists…
‘There are fewer Speech and Language Therapists per head of population in Wales than any other part of the UK, as reflected in our membership data’.
This has had a huge impact on waiting times and access to support for pupils presenting with various speech and language difficulties across Wales. What can we do to support these pupils while they are waiting to be seen?
Whether you have some knowledge of speech and language difficulties or absolutely none this course is for you.
The course will cover:
- Child Language Acquisition
- Specific speech and language difficulties
- Screening and assessment tools
- IDPs/one page profile targets
- Activities and ideas
- Review of interventions
- Working with Parents
- Working with Speech and Language Therapists
A half-day online course to map extended writing opportunities
Estyn stresses the need for teachers to plan opportunities for authentic, independent extended writing across the curriculum.
Estyn notes: Overall, pupils do not have regular opportunities to write independently, particularly when writing in other areas of the curriculum.
This course helps you to plan for effective extended writing.
It will:
- Look at a model for planning extended writing in PS2 and PS3
- Explore how to map writing across the AoLEs and consider effective task setting
- Investigate ways to help pupils to retrieve and use information in their own writing.
The course will enable you to give your pupils meaningful opportunities to apply skills learnt in
literacy in authentic ways.
How skilled and confident are your staff in teaching effective STEM?
D&T is an exciting and natural area to develop and support the four purposes and 12 pedagogical principles of the new curriculum. Learn how, through experiencing the challenges for yourself, before teaching them in the classroom.This is a hands-on session, where delegates will develop their understanding of the different areas in Design and Technology through practical team challenges.
This course will also look at progression from PS1 to PS 3.
There will be a focus on mechanical systems – linkages and gears using construction kits. All delegates will go home with a Robotics kit to use with the children back in class.
A half-day online course to reboot the teaching of reading comprehension
Rich and satisfying learning takes place when we support pupils to become confident speakers who are able to articulate their ideas and offer opinions clearly. Talk embeds ideas and strengthens understanding of topics. It is therefore important to have a detailed, well planned whole school strategy to foster high quality discussion and purposeful collaboration.
We will:
- Consider how to use warm up exercises to provide speaking and listening practice.
- Explore strategies that can be used across the school and across the curriculum to allow pupils to explore an idea.
- Think about how we can use oracy to develop pupils’ thinking.
- Look at how to kickstart an oracy project.
Make talk work in your school to raise standards and increase engagement.
A half-day online course to make shared reading a key part of a school’s scheme of work.
Shared reading is an essential strategy in each teacher’s literacy toolkit. During shared reading pupils practise increasingly complex skills in a supportive and engaging environment.
This course shows how shared reading changes as pupils grow and mature.
It will:
- Explore how shared reading flexes and changes as pupils mature and look at models for teaching in PS1, PS2 and PS3.
- Examine the skills we need to teach pupils in each Progression Step and study a sample scheme of work.
- Look at ways to involve pupils in shared reading.
- Consider what goes into a shared reading toolkit.
Delegates will receive a sample scheme of work and resources to build a shared reading toolkit.
‘Drama’ Strategies are great teaching tools that could be part of every teacher’s toolbox. They help make teaching and learning more active, interactive, inclusive, engaging, enjoyable and memorable. In this session you will learn how to set up at least ten ‘drama’ strategies and will be given some cross-curricular examples of their use. The various configurations and protocols for each strategy will be explained, as well as ways of adapting and sequencing them, to extend and deepen learning.
This online session is based on the presenter’s most recent book, ‘40+ ‘Drama’ Strategies to Deepen Whole Class Learning,’ (Routledge, April 2024).
This full-day practical course will cover the coding aspect of the Science & Technology AoLE (WM6).
The morning session will focus on coding progression from PS1 to PS3, focusing on Bee-Bot, turtle on-screen, LOGO, BBC micro:bit and Scratch.
The afternoon session will focus on an introduction to ‘robotics’ using the Artec Robo ‘Early Education Kit’ to build and control a physical device (PS2) and to code (PS3) Each delegate will receive the kit to take back to their school.
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