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Friday, 14 September 2012 |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Creative curriculum leadership: how to develop consistent teaching and learning throughout school | TS05 | Simon Hickton, head teacher, Carcroft Primary school
This session will look at the leadership and development needed to establish an innovative and creative EYFS to Year 6 curriculum, one that is based around a clear philosophy of learning. We will look at how introducing the 'four cornerstones of learning' can increase the engagement of children and their parents, re-energise teachers, develop children's application of key skills across the curriculum and accelerate progress, especially in speaking, listening and writing.
Stage: EYFS, KS1, KS2 | | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Love to learn: 'make it real' | TS08 | Simon Cooper-Hind, associate of Independent Thinking
With the new Ofsted (2012) focusing on teaching, we need to ensure we are giving children the best. With everything that's going on in our schools today, we often lose sight of what is really important - the children. This session will provide opportunities to rediscover what's important, explore how to engage children so they become learners, and identify what blocks this process whilst developing ideas and strategies on how we make learning real for everyone. This session will also explore a range of inspirational ideas and strategies that can be incorporated into your classroom immediately.
Stage: All stages |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Why are we waiting? | TS13 | Dr Brian Male, curriculum design specialist
Even though a review of the national curriculum is being carried out, it will take more than two years before it is implemented. In the meantime, there are many things we can do right now to make our own school's curriculum better while removing the straitjacket of the national curriculum. This session will focus on how to make learning more exciting and teaching more rewarding, which benefits our pupils immediately and can be incorporated into the new national curriculum when it is announced.
Stage: All stages | | | 12:30 – 13:30 | Rethinking the role of teaching assistants | TS16 | Rob Webster, researcher, Institute of Education
This session uses findings from ground breaking research as the basis for challenging the current and widespread models of TA deployment. It will set out how school leaders and teachers can and must rethink the role of TAs in order to ensure effective practice in their management, deployment and preparation.
Stage: All stages |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Formulating effective partnerships with parents using a values-based approach as a resource to support the curriculum | TS21 | Gill Ellis, head teacher, and Nicola Morgan, independent behaviour consultant and author
It is well documented that pupils benefit when parents, schools and the local community all work together. This session looks at one innovative way this can be achieved using limited resources, and will share the importance of establishing effective partnerships to strengthen relationships and increase interaction between family, school and the community. Directed at headteachers, senior leaders and classroom teachers, this session gives a real insight into how parent partnerships can be integrated effectively into the curriculum and compliment existing PSE programmes such as SEAL.
Stage: All stages | | | 14:00 – 15:00 | Oops! Helping children learn by accident | TS24 | Hywel Roberts, Associate of Independent Thinking Ltd
Lies, deceit, traps and trickery! In fact, everything you might need to get children to learn despite themselves. This session is about engaging learners in great learning whilst seeking to inspire teachers to go back to their classrooms with renewed vigour and a cool set of dance moves* that will build rapport and successfully hook children into learning (*there won't be any real dancing).
Stage: All stages |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | Lessons beyond our shores | TS29 | Dr Brian Male, curriculum design specialist
There are some key trends in curriculum development around the world that have important messages for us in our own schools. Dr Brian Male, a consultant to Unesco, will identify some of these trends and consider how we can respond to them in ways that can help create a dynamic curriculum - a curriculum that will put learners at its heart, excites their imagination, meets their intellectual and personal needs, and prepares them to be active citizens in a global society. Too good to be true? Find out more.
Stage: All stages | | | 15:30 – 16:30 | Preparing for Ofsted: reviewing the school's child protection policy and procedures | TS32 | John Stead, head of NSPCC Safeguarding in Education, and Julie Mortimer, NSPCC education adviser
This session will allow participants to consider the implications of the Ofsted evaluation schedule of judgements so that their schools can provide evidence they are meeting their statutory requirements. It will consider the findings of Ofsted's Safeguarding in Schools: Best Practice and share the evidence of good practice collected from schools. Participants will be taken through the NSPCC's Child Protection Policy & Procedures Checklist and will receive a copy of the NSPCC School Designated Person Workbook.
Stage: All stages |
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Saturday, 15 September 2012 |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | The fundamentals of development for attention and learning | TS36 | Alan Heath, education consultant, Learning Solutions
To learn and function with the amount of sensory input in our environment, the external and internal senses need to be well functioning and integrated. We are all aware of the importance of multi-sensory learning through the external channels of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. What is less understood is the importance of good vestibular function and proprioception. This workshop will look at how to help children develop these underpinning skills for learning and The Learning Breakthrough Program will be used as an illustration of the possibilities available.
Stage: All stages | | | 11:00 – 12:00 | What do high expectations look like? | TS40 | Phil Beadle, teacher, author and journalist
In this session, delegates will be encouraged to set high expectations for all students. We will look at ways to motivate students through praise, to set the bar high, and why marking is the most important thing a teacher does.
Stage: KS2, KS3, KS4 |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | What will the education system look like in 2013? | TS44 | Dr Rona Tutt OBE, education consultant, speaker and writer
The education system is changing: schools are diversifying, local authorities are shrinking, budgets are becoming tighter and Ofsted keeps adjusting its framework. This seminar will give an overview of what is happening now, in order to predict the future shape of schools, settings and other services.
Stage: All stages | | | 12:30 – 13:30 | Engaging families with schools to create effective partnerships through traditional family values | TS48 | Gill Ellis, head teacher, and Nicola Morgan, independent behaviour consultant and author
This innovative, fresh approach in linking traditional family values to create successful partnerships between home and school has been tried and tested in schools in Torfaen, South Wales. This workshop will show case study examples of how this project - which has recently received recognition for its outstanding practice - has developed links and actively engaged families with school life in a fun and creative way.
Stage: KS1, KS2 |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Bringing professionals and parents together | TS52 | Pat Chick, independent educational consultant
Working effectively with families promotes emotional well-being for both parents and professionals. Pat has worked with parents in different settings over many years and will introduce the Partnership Working Model, which explores the ways that professionals communicate with parents. The model empowers participants to review their own perspectives and acknowledges potential for change. She will share information about useful websites for yourselves and for parents.
Stage: All stages | | | 14:00 – 15:00 | Dancing about architecture - how to make lessons as creative as you are | TS54 | Phil Beadle, teacher, author and journalist
This session will explore how to use process-led collisions to make your lessons utterly engaging and to have incredible, unexpected outcomes by using the arts as key pedagogies.
Stage: KS2, KS3, KS4 |
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| 14:00 – 15:00 | Safeguarding children: delivering “keeping safe” messages through the curriculum | TS56 | Phyllis Stephenson, education advisor, NSPCC Safeguarding in Education Service
Many children are ill-informed about the nature of abuse. They know about "stranger danger" but are unaware that the abuser is more likely to be someone they know and should be able to trust. Usually they are not aware of how to report any concerns they have. This session will explore how to embed keep safe messages and preventative education into the curriculum. Participants will receive information about different approaches that can be used in the classroom along with other resources.
Stage: KS1, KS2 | | | 15:30 – 16:30 | Using current changes to move schools forward | TS64 | Dr Rona Tutt OBE, education consultant, speaker and writer
With so many changes going on at once, it is difficult for to keep on top of all that is happening in the field of education. This seminar is designed to help participants understand what is going on, and to have chance to reflect on how to use some of these changes to enhance the work of their school or other educational setting.
Stage: All stages |
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