This programme will enable you to put in place an effective, supportive wellbeing and mental health agenda across all key stages in your school. During this training you will gain the skills, knowledge and understanding of why, what and how mental and emotional health is crucial for all staff, pupils and parents to be actively supporting each other. It is based on the latest evidence of what works when it comes to improving the mental health of children and young people in schools.

As a school leader, the need to have challenging and difficult conversations is inevitable. It is a crucial skill we need to develop. If we neglect to have these conversations, often this can lead to unresolved issues which can have a significant impact on school improvement, professional relationships or outcomes for learners. Our Holding Difficult Conversations course will provide you with the skills and confidence to approach difficult conversations effectively in a professional way, to help maintain your integrity and positive relationships with your team, in achieving the change you seek for the better.This interactive course, will allow you to develop skills you can put to use immediately in your leadership. It will provide you with tools and techniques so that you are fully prepared to deal with various difficult conversations across a range of situations.

This 2-hours course will introduce participants to knowledge and skills that underpin both coaching and mentoring. We will establish the differences and similarities of coaching and mentoring and consider where they might be best positioned within your own setting and role. The webinar will provide you with an opportunity to develop your own coaching skills as a leader and begin to develop your coaching strategy for your school.

During the sessions, you will learn about the systems and procedures that a school or establishment should have in place to support bereavement, loss and grief. These will include suggested protocols, policy and practice with the correct steps of action that need to be implemented when bereavement and loss occurs. You will gain strategies, techniques and methods of support to address the impact of bereavement, loss and grief in order to balance emotional health and wellbeing.Session 1 with Crista Hazell - Managing Grief and Bereavement and Supporting the Whole School community.Session 2 with Nina Jackson - The impact of Bereavement, Loss & Grief on wellbeing and the strategies you can employ to support individuals.

Traditionally, SEND has been viewed as a separate department in schools, a place where children received a variety of support to help them overcome the barriers to their learning. However, research has shown that in order for SEND support to be effective, it has to be a whole school responsibility and part of strategic management. This course will provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to develop SEND in their setting so that it is integrated into day to day practice part of the strategic planning.

A theoretical and practical exploration of leadership coaching. Participants will work through online training activities, practical activities and written reflections to develop their understanding of coaching leaders. We will work to develop and practice those skills that are essential for coaches. The course will also provide additional models that coaches may use to enhance their client’s development and performance. Participants will also understand and be able to apply the important principles around contracting, ethics and supervision as they seek to embed coaching in their own setting. The course is designed to improve leadership at all levels but can be scoped to include coaching at all levels, including the coaching of teachers and support staff.

This course will focus on supporting the continuity of the teaching and learning of phonic skills into spelling as pupils progress through Key Stage 2. We explore how spelling rules, conventions and how to demonstrate to children what it takes to learn to spell. Ideas for making spelling fun and engaging for children will be shared.

Best practice indicates that Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) should have regular opportunities to reflect on and improve their practice. This essential update does just that; you will reflect on new research from this academic year that is pertinent to current issues in schools and identify how best to incorporate it into your practice. You will have the opportunity to identify the issues that starting this academic year will present and how to overcome them. You will have the opportunity to discuss these challenges with your colleagues from other school

This online training will develop your awareness and understanding of safeguarding and child protection to support you in keeping children safe. It will give you the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to possible abuse and neglect and ensures you are fully informed of the latest developments and guidelines in safeguarding.

This online training will provide information on how recruitment processes should comply with the principles of safer recruitment practice and to understand best practice guidelines for schools, academies and colleges The training will examine perpetrator behaviour and how the school can deter, identify and reject candidates who are unsuitable to work with children and prevent them from gaining employment. It examines the required pre-employment checks for school staff and practical tools to apply throughout the process.

This course will promote an understanding of what Dyslexia is and how it presents itself in the primary classroom and identified. Participants gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses faced by a Dyslexic learner. Ideas and strategies are provided on how best to support students in class and what adjustments can be made.

Supporting SEN students with a teaching assistant is often seen as the ‘Holy Grail’ of SEN support. Research, however, has shown that the traditional way of Teaching Assistant support mostly has a negative impact on student achievement. This course will look at various sources of research on why Teaching Assistant can have a negative impact, and also what working practices ensure they are a positive impact on student achievement. It will also provide practical tools and strategies that Teaching Assistants can use immediately on completing the course.

Of course, most of us acknowledge that didactic, lecture-style teaching fosters a culture of passivity in pupils, where pupils have come to expect to have learning “fed” to them – to be told the answers, rather than be taught the skills to discover the answers themselves, or even consider the possibility of alternative answers. This course will help you to quickly improve progress by using Talk-Less Teaching techniques which allow learning to go far deeper than it does when it is mostly administered aurally! You will take away a vast bank of exciting, engaging, practical ways to allow learners to access and understand complex topics and skills without relentlessly bending their ears! Strategies will be realistic and useable by delegates the very next day in subjects across the curriculum and in the different Key Stages.

A practical guide to managing behaviour in classroom and creating a positive, purposeful working environment. Jam-packed with realistic, tried-and-tested techniques that really work, this training will help class teachers to feel confident about dealing with difficult pupils, settling noisy classes and trouble-shooting disruptive behaviour with immediate effect. Isabella will also draw on how the current situation may be adversely impacting on pupil behaviour and in this session will provide practical techniques for reinforcing classroom protocols and expectations.

This short course is designed to give a better understanding of key legislation, guidance and procedures relating to the safety and protection of children. Using International case studies and case reviews this module will give those attending an introduction to harm and abuse, knowledge of key warning signs and how and when to escalate concerns. This training is ideal for the induction of new staff as well as raise awareness and a refresher course to those already in post.

This short course is designed to give school governors a better understanding of key legislation, guidance and procedures relating to the safety and protection of children. Using International case studies and case reviews this course will give those attending an introduction to harm and abuse, knowledge of key warning signs and offer practical suggestions of how governing bodies provide support to the headteacher to continually improve safeguarding practices across a school.

Learn how to meet your safeguarding obligations with our online facilitator programme. Includes our downloadable ‘Safeguarding for International Schools INSET Pack 2020/21’ to help you deliver your own personalised safeguarding training. Contains annually updated, ready-to-deliver presentation modules, facilitator notes and handouts that will give you the knowledge and skills needed to confidently deliver safeguarding training across your school. Best practice requires that school staff should receive termly safeguarding training, so this course will provide Designated Safeguarding and Inclusion Leads with the resources needed to deliver whole-staff training successfully. Attending this course, also gives access to five accredited training modules with content that you can adapt to your own school’s setting. There is also the opportunity to get further support from an accredited safeguarding trainer. Optional follow-up support is available.

‘Moving from feedback to feed forward’ (Cult of Pedagogy, accessed 2019).Whether your school’s lesson feedback system seems to be working well, or team members are progressing inconsistently as a result of a feedback system not yet fit for purpose, using coaching can support your whole team to develop a high quality, embedded teaching and learning approach across your school using some simple techniques.Open questioning, active listening, a culture of professional discussion for improved performance all equate to a developed team, developed capacity and developed teaching and learning for your students. This course will support you in implementing and embedding a coaching approach to lesson feedback in your school and will provide you with valuable resources do to this effectively. This course is part of our ‘Leading Learning– Establishing an Effective cohort of Lead Practitioners’.

A short introductory course for Executive Leaders wanting to better understand the role of an executive leader and CEO.Using the latest research and expertise in the field of education and leadership, this online course will provide the skills you need to consistently lead across your schools and to engage effectively with external stakeholders.

The traditional model of SEN students being supported by the SEN department has changed. Supporting SEN is now a whole school responsibility with class teachers being the first wave of inclusive quality first teaching. This highly practical course will provide instantly useable resources, tools, and strategies that schools can use to immediately reduce unnecessary barriers to learning. It will also provide the resources to empower all staff to support SEN students as part of their everyday practise.

There is a growing concern and increase with mental and emotional health issues in our schools. We need to stand together, work as one, and support each other to be emotionally healthy, resilient and happy, prepared for the struggles that 21st Century Education is forcing upon us. This two-part course will be delivered to Primary cohorts in the morning and Secondary cohorts in the afternoon to ensure the examples and strategies given are 100% relevant to your school context. The primary session will also touch upon successful pupil transition from primary to secondary education.This course is part of our ongoing CPD programme ‘Creating a Whole-School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health – Building a confident team to lead wellbeing across the school’.

There is a growing concern and increase with mental and emotional health issues in our schools. We need to stand together, work as one, and support each other to be emotional healthy, resilient and happy, prepared for the struggles that 21st Century Education is forcing upon us. This two-part course will delivered to Primary cohorts in the morning and Secondary cohorts in the afternoon to ensure the examples and strategies given are 100% relevant to your school context. During this short course, you will gain knowledge, skills and understanding of why, what and how mental and emotional health is crucial for all staff, pupils and parents to be actively supporting each other. It is based on the latest evidence of what works when it comes to improving the mental health of children and young people in schools. This is course is part of our ongoing CPD programme ‘Creating a Whole-School Framework for Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health – Building a confident team to lead wellbeing across the school’.