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Continuing Professional Development during the pandemicWe continue to offer CPD to schools and settings, during the COVID-19 pandemic, through virtual delivery. Over 500 delegates have attended virtual training with us during September 2020.Our training and conference events provide an opportunity to connect, learn and develop. Full listings of CPD offered is available in our training directories.
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Feedback from a school following Designated Safeguarding Lead training, September 2020. | | | | "This is the first time that I have received DSL training through WCF. I have previously opted for an alternative provider. … I am pleased to say that I have come away far more knowledgeable and with more ideas in ensuring that our setting has robust Safeguarding system in place. … I will definitely be using you again."
Feedback from an early years setting following Designated Safeguarding Lead training, September 2020. | | |
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Online resourcesYou will find a range of learning resources within the support services pages on our website. Our resources aim to provide guidance on a variety of matters such as learning difficulties, impairments, emotional health and wellbeing issues and regulations. Please contact the service teams if you require support or guidance with a need not featured within the website resources. |
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Pathway to ProgressDuring 2020 schools have been closed to many pupils due to the Covid-19 pandemic and there is likely to be further disruption ahead. With this in mind the School Improvement team have developed Pathway to Progress, to support schools in planning for recovery. Pathway to Progress includes a range of virtual training based on key principles which underpin recovery planning: - creating a safe environment
- mental health and wellbeing
- re-engaging learners
- identifying gaps
- prioritising the curriculum
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| Scheduled Pathway to Progress training: | | | Engaging learners, their parents and other stakeholders12 October 2020, 4pm to 5pmCost: £13 + VAT This session delivered by Gareth Morgan, School Improvement Adviser, draws on evidence from the Educational Endowment Fund (EEF). The session will focus on pupils and families that are more difficult to reach or who are resistant to engagement and the impact of Covid-19 on pupil engagement and how to recover and improve it. Suitable for key stage 1 to 4. Course details and book | | | | | | Early Phonics12 October 2020, 3.45pm to 5pm or 13 October 2020, 3.45pm to 5pmCost: £13 + VAT More so than ever we must remember the importance of the phase one skills and quality experiences that children may have missed out on over the last 6 months. How can you incorporate these into your day as well as starting phase two for those children who are ready? Which other areas of learning and ELGs do the children need in order to access phonics effectively? Delivered by Gill Deakin, School Improvement Adviser, for early years foundation stage. Course details and book | | | | | Help, I'm in year one said the 5-year-old21 October 2020, 1pm to 3pm or 22 October 2020, 3pm to 5pmCost: £16 + VAT "I was just learning how to be independent, how to be confident enough to ask questions, how to choose my own learning and be curious about new experiences and then along came that virus. I still need to learn these skills" What does the play-based approach look like for your Year 1 children? Join Gill Deakin, School Improvement Adviser, to discuss year 1 learning post lockdown, transition issues and celebrate what is working well for this unique group of year 1 children. Suitable for key stage 1. Course details and book | | | | | | Metacognition11 November and 04 December 2020, 3.30pm to 5pmCost: £20 + VAT Rachael Baldwin, School Improvement Adviser, will look at how to implement metacognition in the classroom/school. Training will take place across 2 sessions and will help teachers to unpick 'Metacognition' and consider a range of practical strategies and activities that can be implemented in the classroom to promote and support pupils' learning. Suitable for key stage 1 to 4. Course details and book | | | | |
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Free resilience and wellbeing coursesDfE funded training from the Educational Psychology teamThe Educational Psychology team will be delivering several free training sessions during November and December aimed at supporting pupils' and students' wellbeing and psychosocial recovery, following return to full-time education. The team can deliver the courses after securing additional funding made available to local authorities as part of the Wellbeing for Education Return project. | | |
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Each course is made up of two sessions: Session 1 - create a shared understanding of: - vocabulary and research around resilience and wellbeing
- how the pandemic has impacted
- biological responses to stress and how the brain influences learning and behaviour
- different ways to promote resilience and wellbeing in schools following the pandemic
Session 2 - a practical focus, exploring strategies that schools can employ to assess and promote resilience and wellbeing on an individual, group and whole-school level. Places will be limited per school. Course information will be available online by Friday 10th October. Visit CPD online to view details and book. | | | |
| The early years team, in liaison with colleagues in specialist services, will be developing a broad range of webinars throughout the academic year to support all aspects of inclusive practice.
Upcoming webinars will include: the SEND local offer, local inclusion fund and graduated response levels and relationship building with parents. | | | Staff update- Stephen Fessey and Gemma Halstead have successfully been appointed as permanent leads for the Autism and Complex Communication Needs team, having been interim leads since January.
Find out more about Stephen, Gemma and the rest of the Autism /CCN team on their meet the team page.
- Donna Parker has been appointed Group Manager for Vulnerable Learners. Donna will oversee education services the MET, Careers, CME, Exclusions, EHE and Education Welfare teams.
- David Scott is interim lead for the Educational Psychology team.
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Tips to help the school day run smoothlyA Teaching Assistant recently showed me an ingenious way in which she teaches children to tie their shoelaces ( thanks Mrs Wood, Cranham Primary School). It made me think TAs must have many tips and innovative ways in which they help the school day run more effective and efficiently. Mrs Wood's tips along with some other great suggestions to help organise children and get their attention are available to view on our website. View top tipsShare your top tipsPlease tell us any tips that you know or use, which help the school day run smoothly. We'll repost them on our top tips page.
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Training and support for teaching assistantsEmail groupGill Deakin, School Improvement Adviser facilitates an email support group, which will re-start this term, following lockdown. The group called Tips for TAT's (TAT being Teaching Assistant Team) is aimed at Early Years TA's. It is hard for TAs to be released from school for professional development, therefore the email group provides a regular email correspondence with TAs, that offers tips to help daily provision, learning more about young children and how they learn and updates on the Early Years world. For more information about the group email: GDeakin@worcschildrenfirst.org.ukTrainingWe can provide bespoke training for TAs to help support individual needs or small group approaches. Our learning support team can delivery bespoke training on a range of topics and interventions including movement, language, numeracy and numicon phonics. | | | Featured training:Help! They've put me in reception!13 November 2020, 1.15pm to 3pm A fun and interactive session for TAs new to EYFSWell, you are a very lucky person if you have landed yourself a job as a TA in Reception, it's a very privileged place to be where you can make a huge difference each day to every unique child you work with and play alongside. However, it's a whirlwind of a place to be, every minute is unpredictable, you're told to go with the child's interests in their play but you're also given learning targets to meet in 17 areas of learning. Then you're asked to write an observation, sort the snack table, enable purposeful play in the construction area, facilitate the dough gym session, sort out 3 children with toileting needs, create a small world area (what's that?), have a focus phonics group outside in the willow den, you look at your watch and it's only just 9.30am - I wonder what the rest of the day will hold! This session will explore some of the terminology we use in reception such as continuous and enhanced provision, the importance of quality observations and their purpose, how to engage young children and how you in your role can ignite their learning and encourage them to reach their full potential, whatever their starting point is. Book via CPD online | | | | | | |
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Headteacher briefingThe Autumn headteacher briefing took place last week with Nikki Jones and Jane Howard from the School Improvement team kicking off the You Tube live event, discussing curriculum recovery and contingency planning.James McNeillie, Ofsted Interim Regional Director, then advised Headteachers on Ofsted interim visits.After a break, Dr Kathryn Cobain, Director of Public Health , Worcestershire County Council, provided a local focus Covid-19 and testing. Download supporting presentations and resources | | |
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CPD certificatesFor the last four years participant certificates for early years and governor services training have been accessed via CPD online. From November, certificates relating to safeguarding and school improvement will also be processed and accessible via CPD online. Your CPD course leader (account holder) will receive notification that a participant certificate is available to download following completed training. CPD leaders can email the training team: workforcesupport@worcschildrenfirst.org.uk or call 01905 844 420, for help to access certificates. | | |
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