New Roles and Responsibilities for Year Leaders and Tutors
This course has been designed for aspiring and existing heads of year wishing to fully embrace the academic and pastoral issues involved. The course will address the skills essential to support and manage change and bring coherence to the new roles. The key focus is on the issues of quality assurance, leadership styles, managing colleagues, data analysis, monitoring student progress, guidance systems and formative assessment. |
Self-Harm and Eating Disorders – Creating Positive Support
The days of students being told to ‘pull themselves together’ when committing self-harm or displaying symptoms of an eating disorder are thankfully long gone. Today we realise that sufferers need empathy, respect and understanding if they are to tackle the psychological issues that underlie their conditions. The recovery process is often long and difficult, and invariably relies on strong support from the school. |
Raising Standards through the Mentoring of Young People
Young people growing up in western societies have to deal with a rapidly-changing social world. These changes have their greatest effect on the young people who are most poorly equipped to deal with them. Trained mentors can play an important role in helping young people to raise standards, tackle and learn from failure and create a new culture of opportunity and success. |
Developing the Role of Non-teaching Pastoral Staff
There is an ever-increasing number of non-teachers in pastoral roles and their remit is constantly growing. This course will develop skills in building rapport and relationships with students, effective working with outside agencies and creating a whole-school approach to pastoral care. |
Being an Effective Mentor, Getting the Best out of Your Students
This course explores the benefits of different styles of mentoring and their application, and will provide delegates with the skills, knowledge and resources needed to implement effective mentoring as soon as they return to school / college. |
Boosting Attendance in your School
Boosting attendance can be a key factor in whole-school improvement, with clear links to raising standards. This course will give you the information to establish a thorough system for managing and improving attendance, with lots of ideas on practical interventions that have worked successfully in other schools. This course is suitable for senior leaders and those involved in managing attendance. |
Raising Achievement for Year 8 Students
The achievement of Year 8 students can often plateau as their motivation dwindles and life becomes more driven by hormones and peer pressure than a desire to thrive and achieve in school. This course looks at strategies that can be adopted by the head of Year 8 and form tutors in order to maintain motivation and raise the achievement of students during this difficult year. |
Trauma-free Transition from Primary to Secondary Education
This course offers practical solutions to enable children, parents, primary and secondary schools to engage in the transition process and turn it into a positive and rewarding experience for all stakeholders. By the end of the course, participants will have a broader understanding of how to utilise effective transition and they will have formed the beginnings of a cross school transition policy. |
Outstanding lessons in PSHE
Teachers and PSHE co-ordinators will have the opportunity to explore guidance and inspection requirements around PSHE, consider what effective PSHE provision looks like and gain practical strategies in reviewing learning. |
Dealing Confidently with Sex and Relationships in PSHE
Many teachers struggle with the delivery of sex and relationship education. This course will offer clear guidance on delivery, improve teacher confidence, offer help in selecting materials and provide clarity around national guidelines. This course is suitable for PSHE co-ordinators, teachers, support staff and school nurses delivering sex and relationship education. |
Enabling Year 11 Students to Achieve Their Potential
Year 11 students are under huge pressures to achieve academically and make important life decisions. This course offers strategies and advice for staff with a responsibility for Year 11 to ensure students are offered the support and guidance they need to achieve their academic and personal potential as they prepare for the future. |
Managing Bereavement in School
Loss and bereavement of some degree is unavoidable, and it is with young people that its impact is most felt. This course will cover a wide range of loss experiences, including developmental and traumatic loss, and normal and unexpected loss - ranging from the death of a child's family member to the trauma of death by accident or misadventure. |
Child Protection Refresher Course for Experienced Staff
This refresher course offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in child protection and has been developed for school staff who have been trained in the past and want to either refresh or extend their skills and knowledge. It is suitable for any member of teaching or non-teaching staff including child protection officers. This course can also be delivered in-school and is an excellent way of fulfilling your statutory requirements. |
Communicating with Students, Staff and Parents
Adapting the way you speak and write to foster positive reactions and a ‘can do’ attitude from students, staff and parents will have a massive impact on your ability to effectively fulfil your role and maximise the potential of those around you. During this training course you will develop a range of positive communication skills and explore practical strategies for embedding them in your role every day. |
Sex and Relationship Education for Students with SEN
Students with special educational needs or learning difficulties are less likely than their peers to receive effective sex education at home and face a higher than average likelihood of experiencing sexual abuse. It is vital that an effective sex and relationship curriculum is delivered which caters to the individual needs of each student. The course is primarily aimed at special school staff but other colleagues should also find it of use. |
Restorative Justice: Facilitating and Following Up
Restorative Justice can prove a powerful technique in resolving conflict and addressing incidents in school, but needs to be facilitated and followed up effectively. This course will provide delegates with the skills, knowledge and understanding to successfully apply the principles of restorative justice in their school’s setting and to facilitate and follow up with confidence. |
SEAL for Special Schools
Many special schools already use much of the SEAL curriculum without using that title. This course is suitable for teachers and managers of special schools who have an interest in developing these ideas further and exploring new resources to further help students who have behavioural, social and emotional difficulties, as well as helping all students to develop as effective learners. |
A Practical Introduction to Child Protection
Every member of school staff has an important role to play in safeguarding and protecting children. Our experienced course leader will guide you through the key issues in child protection and will also offer you practical advice about how to apply what you have learnt back at school. This course has been developed for teaching and non-teaching school staff who have not previously received child protection training or would like a refresher on the basics. |
Tackling Homophobic Bullying in Your School
With almost 2/3 of lesbian, gay and bisexual students suffering from some form of bullying in school, the task of eliminating it can seem like an impossible dream. Yet some schools have done just that. This course shares the insights from these leading schools about how to create a zero tolerance policy that brings tangible results. It is suitable for all senior and middle leaders, especially those with a pastoral responsibility. |
Developing a Pastoral Programme for KS5 Students
Planning a quality programme to provide KS5 students with the skills and knowledge to meet their needs for Further or Higher Education and employment is a challenging task. This course will suggest a range of topics for you to consider, thus enabling you to select what to include and to review your current programme for your school or college. |