Professional Development

About the Session:

Programme Objectives:

This programme is designed to develop the skills and knowledge of EYFS practitioners.  They will have the opportunity to work with other schools and practitioners and learn about curriculum development, assessment & recommended resources and practice from the respective settings. Delegates will also consider the use of evaluation and other data to plan improved provision.

 

At each session delegates will be provided with:

• Up-to-date information on current EYFS developments and national & local issues.
• Opportunities for discussion & the sharing of practice and strategies.
• A focus on one core CPD theme
• Opportunities to explore practice & practical activities and resources to support teaching of the specific core theme in both indoor and outdoor environments.
• Discussion around the use of tools to audit the effectiveness of practice & provision and share research and further reading

 

Core CPD Themes

Session 1

Mathematics & approaches to Learning Attitudes

Session 2

Expressive Arts and Design & approaches to Formative Assessment

Session 3

Physical Development & approaches to Sustained Shared Thinking

 

 

Facilitator:

Amanda James

Lead Consultant, EYITT Programme

Date and Time:

Session 1 : 2nd October 2019

Session 2: 18th March 2020

Session 3: 17th June 2020

 

All sessions are between 1.00 – 3.30 p.m.

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

EYFS Leaders & Practitioners

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£150 for all three sessions

See attached flyer

Early Years Updates Programme 2019 -2020

About the Session:

This course is intended for Year 2 teachers, including NQTs, who are new to administering or coordinating end of Key Stage 1 assessments. Some more experienced teachers may also feel that it is important to update their knowledge and understanding.

The course will provide opportunities to become familiar with the current statutory regulations in relation to end of Key Stage 1 assessments and discuss related issues. In particular schools need to ensure they are aware of national criteria and standards when making level judgements. Therefore the course will also include opportunities to discuss and moderate nationally agreed samples of children’s work.

Facilitator:

Jane Downes – Juniper Education

Date and Time:

28^th February 2020 – 1 .30 – 4.00 pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

NQTs & Teachers new to Year 2 in CTSA member schools

Course Fee:

£70 per delegate

See attached flyer

New to Year 2 2020

About the Session:

This course is intended for Year 6 teachers, including NQT’s who are new to administering or coordinating end of Key Stage 2 assessments. Some more experienced teachers may also feel that it is important to update their knowledge and understanding.

The course provides opportunities to become familiar with the current statutory requirements in relation to end of Key Stage 2 assessments and to discuss related issues. In particular schools need to ensure they are aware of national criteria and standards when making level judgements in Writing. Therefore the course will also include opportunities to discuss and moderate nationally agreed samples of children’s work.

Facilitator:

Theresa Pierce – Juniper Education

Date and Time:

17th March 2020 – 1 .30 – 4.00 pm

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

NQTs & Teachers new to Year 6 in CTSA member schools

Course Fee:

£70 per delegate

See attached flyer

New to Year 6 2020

Content of the Session:

We are delighted to offer this programme in partnership with Eastern Partnership UK (SEND) and Gateway Qualifications.

The programme will enable participants to develop their knowledge and confidence and practical skills in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

The qualification is suitable for a range of school- based practitioners including support staff and teachers. SENCOs may also wish to develop their own knowledge and skills in this area. It is suitable for all phases of education: early years, primary and secondary.

On successful completion participants will gain a Level 4 award in supporting children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. They will also gain 6 level 4 credits from Gateway Qualifications. Participants will develop a detailed portfolio of work.

The qualification is delivered via a blended learning pathway: an initial half day face-to face session and a mid-point 2 hour face-to-face workshop will support the 6 month online programme which is easily accessible via internet enabled devices including tablets and phones.

Each participant will be allocated an online Learning Outcomes Assessor who will support the completion of the programme and the portfolio of evidence. To achieve the learning outcomes for the course, participants will submit learning journal entries and assessment tasks via the online platform.

Online programme available for 6 months from February 2020

Facilitator:

Jacky Wragg (Face to Face sessions) & Eastern Partnerships (online)

Date and Time:

The online programme is available from February 2020

Face to Face Session 1 : 12th February 2020 @ 9.15 am  – 12.15 pm

Face to Face Session 2: 6th May 2020 @ 2.00 – 4.00 pm

Venue: (Face to Face Sessions)

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Support Staff, Teachers & SENCOs

Course Fee:

£210 per delegate

See attached flyer

Level 4 Award SLCN 2019 – 2020

Aims of the session

• To understand the differences between traditional differentiation and the ‘adapting teaching’ approach
• To understand the ‘adapting teaching’ approach in the context of mastery
• To know a range of practical strategies which can be used to adapt English and maths teaching

 Content of the session 

The research underpinning the new Ofsted framework clearly signals a move away from traditional differentiation towards a new ‘adaptation of teaching’ approach. This one day course focuses on how to make your English and maths teaching ‘Ofsted-ready’ and will explain the differences in the two approaches. Furthermore, participants will explore a wide range of practical strategies to adapt their teaching of writing, reading and mathematics which they can implement straight away in their own classrooms

Facilitator:

Jonathan Bond

Date and Time:

31st January – 9.30 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.

 

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Newlands Spring
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All Primary Teachers

Course Fee:

£100 for CTSA Members

£150 for Non CTSA Members

See attached flyer

Beyond Differentiation 2019 -2020

Course Content:

This course is designed to teach those working with children and babies the correct first aid procedures to be applied when faced with a variety of injuries/conditions. Some areas also include procedures for adults. Topics covered include responding appropriately to choking, shock, anaphylactic shock, suspected fractures and bleeding. Resuscitation techniques will also be covered, and recognising and responding to the emergency needs of children with chronic medical conditions including epilepsy, asthma and diabetes.  A full syllabus is detailed below.
Upon reaching a competent standard in all units (assessment will be ongoing throughout the training) each student will receive a certificate of attainment. The certificate is valid for 3 years from the date of completion of the course.

There will be practical activities so comfortable clothes should be worn. Females should wear trousers.

Syallabus

Administration of medications
Diagnosis
Shock
Body check for injuries
Resuscitation – adult, child & baby
Asthma
Burns
Upset Stomach
Anaphylactic shock
Foreign Objects – swallowed, ears, nose & eyes
Accident Books
Sickle Cell Anaemia
Fractures
Playground first aid
Principles of First Aid
Priority of treatment
Unconsciousness
Strains & Sprains
Choking- adult, child & baby
Fainting
Compression
Diabetes
Bleeding – minor, severe
Displaced Tooth
Extremes of temperature
Squashed Fingers
Insect stings
Splinters
Concussion
Epilepsy
Meningitis
Hygiene
Common Ailments
First Aid Kits
Poisons
Question and answer session

Facilitator:

Frinton Training Services

Date and Time:

1st Date :      9th & 10th July 2020

9.15 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All Teaching and Support Staff

Course Fee:

Members: £135

Non members: £150

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First Aid (Paediatric, Child & Adult) 2019 -2020

About the Session:

Programme Outline:

The session will include strategies to identify and implement improvement to teaching and learning of computing, online safety and the implementation of education technology. Subject Leaders will be provided with the latest news and developments, both locally and nationally.

There will be time for discussion, training and review of resources to ensure computing & online safety subject leaders have a toolkit of resources to meet the needs of the curriculum and responsibilities under Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Prevent duty.

 

Programme Objectives:

• to develop the skills and knowledge of the computing & online safety subject leader
• to consider how teachers’ subject knowledge and skills are audited and developed
• to discuss current developments in computing & online safety
• to address intent in curriculum policies and the mapping of progression
• to improve subject knowledge and approaches to auditing and development of skills
• to provide up-to-date information on local and national issues.
• to offer opportunities for schools to work together and learn from each other on curriculum development, assessment and resources
• to give an overview of new and emerging technologies in computing and for use across the curriculum
• to support leadership roles in monitoring and evaluation

 

Facilitator:

Dave Smith (Havering Education Services)

Date and Time:

Session 1 – 16th October 2019
Session 2 – 12th February 2020
Session 3 – 20th May 2020

All sessions will be held between 1.00 p.m and 4.00 p.m

Venue:

Newland Springs Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

Computing & Online Safety Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£150 for all three sessions

See attached flyer

Computing Updates 2019 -2020

About the Session:

During the sessions you will be exploring many things, including how to:

• Increase progress in children’s scientific knowledge and understanding and their skills of working scientifically
• Create practical science lessons that excite and engage children and are easy to resource
• Use different types of scientific enquiry to answer questions, including those generated by the children
• Identify the science in real-life contexts
• Teach the tricky science concepts including climate change
• Deepen children’s learning in science so they can demonstrate mastery
• Use problem solving to enable children to apply their scientific knowledge and understanding
• Know what Ofsted expect of primary school science

Each session explores activities and aspects of science requested by subject leaders. Plus, it’s a great way to find out what your colleagues are doing in their schools – there is always someone who can give you an idea or two.

Facilitator:

Jeremy Crook

Date and Time:

Session 1:  9th October 2019

Session 2:  26th February 2020

Session 3:  3rd June 2020

 

All sessions are between  1.00 p.m – 4.00 p.m

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All Science Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£150 for all three sessions

See attached flyer

Science Subject Leader Updates 2019 -2020

About the Session:

Aims:

• To develop the skills of the subject leader.
• To receive updates on current developments in Maths and English.

Course Content:

This course aims to give subject leaders a chance to meet together, build up their own leadership skills and remain abreast of local and national news, materials and resources.  For the three sessions, Gill Haysham will take an in depth look at recent developments in Maths and Jonathan Bond will update delegates on English.

Sessions will include, when available, any developments in KS1 & 2 testing, assessment and Ofsted.

Facilitator:

Jonathan Bond & Gill Haysham

Date and Time:

Session 1 – 18th September 2019

Session 2 – 17th January 2020

Session 3 – 22nd April 2020

 

All sessions will be held between 9.15 – 11.45 a.m.

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All Maths & English Subject Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£150 for all three sessions

See attached flyer

Maths & English Updates 2019 -2020

 

About the Session:

Programme Objectives:

School Assessment Leaders (SALs) Update Meetings are focused on both the assessment of learning and assessment for learning.

The first focus ensures that SALs are as up-to-date as possible in their knowledge and understanding of statutory assessment requirements. As well as disseminating this information, the Course Tutors will provide the names of useful publications and websites to support delegates. Course Tutors also encourage delegates to ask questions and discuss current issues so that they can return to their schools as fully informed as possible.

The second focus on assessment for learning will include sharing of latest research, presentation of case studies and often the invitation to course delegates to share and discuss with their colleagues. This last aspect is regarded as particularly valuable as a networking tool that enables delegates to develop their assessment skills in a very supportive environment.

Facilitator:

Theresa Pierce & Jane Downes

Date & Time:

Session 1 – 14th November 2019

Session 2 – 5th March 2020

Session 3 – 7th May 2020

 

All sessions will be held between 9.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m.

Venue:

Newlands Spring Primary School
Dickens Place
Chelmsford
CM1 4UU

Target Audience:

All School Assessment Leaders

Course Fee:

£60 per delegate per session

or

£150 for all three sessions

Please see attached flyer

School Assessment Leader Updates 2019 -2020

About the Session:

This successful programme for recently qualified teachers designed by the Eastern Leadership Centre is once again being offered to primary and secondary teachers in our locality.

With a focus on reflective practice, discussion and a coaching style the programme is centred around three twilight sessions with associated inter-sessional activities:

Session 1:

Great Teaching – becoming an expert practitioner in the classroom.

• What makes great teaching? OFSTED criteria and sharing good practice
• Methods of reflection to support development as a great teacher.

Session 2:

Leading Learning – developing yourself as a leader.

• Exploring what makes a good leader
• Identifying my current leadership strengths and areas for development
• Understanding the use of reflection, growth mindset and emotional intelligence as part of the learning journey to become an effective leader of learning.

Session 3:

Forgoing ahead – pathways to further success for you and others.

• Developing social awareness and relationship management to develop teams
• Dealing with difficult conversations
• Overcoming obstacles to success.

Facilitator:

Gemma Woolley (Assistant Head Teacher, Chelmer Valley High School)

Date & Time:

Session 1 – 13th November 2019

Session 2 – 29th January 2020

Session 3 – 25th March 2020

 

All sessions will be held between 4.00 -5.30 p.m.

Venue:

Chelmer Valley High School

Court Road

Chelmsford

Essex

CM1 7ER

Target Audience:

Primary & Secondary teachers in their 2nd – 5th year of teaching

Course Fee:

Free to all Mid Essex Schools

See attached flyer

RQT Programme 2019 -2020

About the Session:

This is an opportunity to meet with colleagues to moderate and quality-assure writing assessment judgments in years 5, 6 and 7. It will offer the opportunity for teachers to work collaboratively in order to ensure cohesion and accuracy of assessment in writing. It could also be used as a chance to look at a ‘snapshot’ of writing each term or for a writing journey to be tracked throughout the academic year if you are able to attend all three sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Demonstrate the end of KS2 expectations
• Align these with expectations at the beginning of KS3
• Compare and discuss teacher assessment judgements with practitioners from other schools
• Discuss the impact of feedback on learners’ progress if appropriate
• Share examples of work across a full spectrum of abilities and genres

Further details of the sessions will be sent to participants in advance of the meetings including any materials/work samples that will be required.

Facilitator:

Hannah Rigby & Samantha Hutchings, CTSA SLEs

Date & Time:

Session 1 – 21st November

Session 2 – 5th March 2020

Session 3 – 21st May 2020

 

All sessions will be held between 4.00 – 5.15 p.m.

Venue:

Session 1 – Newlands Spring Primary School

Session 2 – Rayne Primary School

Session 3 – Gosfield Primary School

Target Audience:

Teachers of Years 5, 6 & 7

English Subject Leaders

Upper KS2 Phase Leaders

KS3 Phase Leaders

Course Fee:

FREE to CTSA Schools only

Please see attached flyer

Writing Moderation Flyer 2019-20

About the Programme:

Programme Outline:

A 4 day training programme giving opportunities for action planning and to observe teaching of reading comprehension with pupils. You will benefit from collaborative learning & a flexible content to meet the requirements of the group. We will have access to an online learning platform (Hive Learning).

Session 1 – Please bring a list of the children in your class who you have identified as being not at age expected for reading and on whom you will be focusing.

• Focus on reading fluency, resilience and reading for pleasure
• Quick and efficient assessment of fluency
• Time to plan and share ideas to develop back in school

Session 2 –

• Focus on vocabulary and activating prior knowledge
• Quick and efficient assessment of comprehension
• Opportunity to work with children
• Sharing of practice and learning from what has been tried back in school
• Time to identify strategies to develop back in school

Session 3 –

• Focus on reading for meaning, inference and summarising
• Opportunity to observe the teaching of a reading comprehension skill
• Sharing of practice and learning from what has been tried back in school
• Time to identify strategies to develop back in school

 Session 4 –

• Focus on predicting, scanning, comparing and generalising
• Teaching sequence for developing reading comprehension
• Sharing of practice and learning from what has been tried back in school
• Action planning for continuing impact back in school

It is recommended that 2 members of staff from each school attend, to support effective implementation across the school.

Facilitator:

Rachel Pritchard & Emma Bradshaw, Lyons Hall Primary School

Date & Time:

Session 1 – 23rd October 2019

Session 2 – 25th November 2019

Session 3 – 22nd January 2020

Session 4 – 9th March 2020

 

All sessions will be held between 9.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Venue:

Session 1 – Newlands Spring Primary School

Session 2 – The Beaulieu Primary School

Session 3 – Newlands Spring Primary School

Session 4 – The Beaulieu Primary School

Target Audience:

Teaching Staff

Course Fee:

This programme  has been significantly subsidised for CTSA member schools.

£200 for one staff member / £300 for two staff  members from the same school (plus £20 for Hive portal access)

Please see attached flyer

Reading Programme 2019 -2020

Programme Outline

These sessions for NQTs in Secondary Schools, are personalised to meet the needs of the NQTs and address aspects of all of the Teaching Standards. They will provide opportunities for delegates to:

• Further develop their understanding of teaching and learning and related issues
• Develop professional relationships with colleagues from other schools.
• Reflect on their learning to date and plan for their continued professional development

All sessions are led by school based practitioners and as well as a focus on the specific topic area, they also include an open networking opportunity where NQTs will be able to share concerns and seek advice from an experienced colleague. These sessions are an excellent way to share good practice and for NQTs to form the habit of becoming lifelong learners.

Session 1 – 18th September 2019

Welcome

Behaviour for Learning

 

Session 2 – 9th October 2019

Communicating with parents

 

Session 3 – 23rd October 2019

Safeguarding

Supporting student mental health issues

Work / life balance and mental well  being

 

Session 4 – 27th November 2019

Assessment, marking and feedback for progress

Evidencing learning (incl data use)

 

Session 5 – 22nd January 2020

Stretch & Challenge for all

 

Session 6 -4th March 2020

SEND Workshop

 

Session 7 – 1st July 2020

Moving forward to Year 2 including presentation skills / presenting yourself for career progression

Celebration of the year !

 

Please note that all sessions will include time at the end where NQTs can raise/explore individual issues with the session leaders.

 

 

Facilitator:

Session 1 – 18th September 2019

Catherine Cusick

Session 2 – 9th October 2019

Lisa-Marie Smith

Session 3 – 23rd October 2019

Jo Morten-Brown

Session 4 – 27th November 2019

Safia Hammoudi

Session 5 -15th January 2020

Safia Hammoudi

Session 6 -4th March 2020

Columbus School

Session 7 – 1st July 2020

(TBC)

 

Date, Time & Venue:

Session 1 – 18th September 2019

Notley High School @ 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.

Session 2 – 9th October 2019

Hylands School @ 2.00 – 3.30 p.m.

Session 3 – 23rd October 2019

Notley High School @ 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.

Session 4 – 27th November 2019

Chelmer Valley High School @ 2.00 – 3.15 p.m.

Session 5 -15th January 2020

Chelmer Valley High School @ 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.

Session 6 -4th March 2020

Columbus School @ 2.00 – 3.30 p.m.

Session 7 – 1st July 2020

(TBC)

 

Course Fee:

Programme FREE to NQT’s in Mid Essex