Subject leaders don’t just manage people, they manage a discipline, they are the champions of their subject field and arbiters of its quality.  In this course we will explore how subject leaders can ensure their subject is taught well and that pupils are engaged, challenged and achieve.

This course is perfect for Subject Leaders and Heads of Department leading any discipline and is ideal for those new to the role and those just seeking their first middle leadership position. It is a practical course, anchored in the day-to-day reality of running a department and it follows a focused, logical sequence, and is full of real-life learning.  

During this practical short course, Pooky will walk you through a range of simple ideas to help you to be the adult that your anxious teen needs.  None of these ideas require any existing knowledge or experience and are designed to feel easily doable.  You don’t have to do them all, pick one or two and see how you get on. This course is written with parents and carers primarily in mind, but the ideas here could easily be adapted for use by people working with young people or you could use them to deliver workshops or discussion sessions to parents or carers. One of a series of webinars commissioned by Resilient Rutland who are funded by the National Lottery

This course is aimed at parents and carers who want to take positive action to keep their children happy and safe online.  I’ve tried to take a pragmatic and practical approach, helping you to start interesting conversations with your child rather than simply tell them what to do! The course may also be of interest to colleagues working with children too and you are welcome to use the videos as the basis of parent or carer workshops you are running in your school or setting. One of a series of webinars commissioned by Resilient Rutland who are funded by the National Lottery

This mini-course has been developed by Pooky to share with you 5 very simple strategies that can be used by adults or children to help them to manage day to day feelings of anxiety.  These strategies will not change the underlying issues, but they can help us to get through each day without feeling completely overwhelmed.

This course is designed to teach you some of the basics on how to support reading with some strategies which have been tried and tested. It will get you started on thinking about what you can do to support reading.

This is a playback of a past live webinar. During this one hour webinar, parent and educator Tom Vodden will walk you through some guiding principles and practical ideas for supporting children and young people are not gelling well with online school.  Tom will share ideas that can be adopted by parents, carers and educators to work alongside children who are anxious when it comes to online learning.

In this course, Matt Bromley talks about the part school leaders can play in reducing teacher workload. We have a teacher retention crisis in our schools.  One in 10 teachers left the profession in 2016.  Of these, an increasing proportion left the profession for other sectors rather than retiring, suggesting working conditions rather than age were driving them out. Although there are myriad reasons why teachers quit the classroom, topping the table in nearly every survey is teacher workload. This online course explores the issues and offer some practical solutions for school leaders to implement immediately. As well as being useful for individual CPD, this course could form the basis of in-school 121 coaching for prospective members of SLT.

During these uncertain times we all face, perhaps you have found yourself in the challenging position as a parent or carer with a child who is now attending school remotely or on a distanced learning basis. This can be a worrying time for children and young people as well as adults. Children are missing their friends and the goal posts are constantly changing about school and how they are expected to learn. In this course, I will give you some strategies to support you in communicating about mental health and feelings. This course has been designed for parents/carers with a child in primary school and requires no previous training or knowledge.

This course will provide you with information to help you to spot the signs and symptoms of poor mental health in your colleagues, give examples of helpful conversations about mental health, consider reasonable adjustments you can make to support colleagues in their recovery and learn about useful resources/support services you can signpost your colleagues to for further help.

In this course, Matt Bromley shares practical ways for teachers to manage their workload in order to promote good health and wellbeing.  One in 10 teachers left the profession in 2016.  Of these, an increasing proportion left the profession for other jobs rather than retiring, suggesting working conditions not age was driving them out of the classroom.  Although there are myriad reasons why teachers quit the profession, topping the table in nearly every survey is teacher workload. So, how can teachers manage their time more effectively and ensure they strike a healthy work life balance, in order to protect their health and wellbeing?  This online course offers some tangible tips teachers can put into immediate practice.  As well as being useful for individual CPD, this course could form the basis of in-school 1-2-1 coaching for prospective members of SLT.

Day to day management is often about being reactive rather than proactive, dealing with issues as they arise.  However, there are ways of being better prepared for the unexpected and of creating the conditions within which unforeseen crises are minimised or mitigated. This course is perfect for Subject Leaders and Heads of Department leading any discipline and is ideal for those new to the role and those just seeking their first middle leadership position.  It is a practical course, anchored in the day-to-day reality of running a department.  It follows a focused, logical sequence, and is full of real-life learning.

In this course we explore why it can be hard to pick up on autism in girls.  We then consider some of the warning signs we can be looking out for and the practical steps we can take to support a girl if we believe she may be autistic. This on-demand course was inspired by a learn live session run by Pooky which over a thousand people registered to attend.

Having supported a wide range of schools both in the UK and internationally, on their journey towards becoming more mentally healthy, I believe that there are six areas which can give a quick insight into how mentally healthy a school is and potential areas for development.  This framework has been adopted by hundreds of schools and is the focus of my best-selling book ‘The Mentally Healthy Schools Workbook’.

Subject leaders are actually leaders and managers.  They must juggle the day to day operational management of their department with longer-term strategic planning.  Effective leadership is about setting direction. This is done by agreeing and articulating a shared vision, then by setting clear goals and performance targets that help bring that vision about. Effective subject leaders model the behaviours they expect of others (such as positivity and optimism, passion and determination); they develop their colleagues through support and understanding and re-design their departments (through a process of collaboration) in order to become - or continue to be - excellent. This course is perfect for Subject Leaders and Heads of Department leading any discipline and is ideal for those new to the role and those just seeking their first middle leadership position.  It is a practical course, anchored in the day-to-day reality of running a department.  It follows a focused, logical sequence, and is full of real-life learning.

In this course Pooky will walk you through eight practical ideas and approaches to enable you to better support students who are currently self-harming.  This will aid your understanding and your confidence. The course is suitable for anyone working with or supporting a young person who is self-harming in any way.  These videos could also make a useful focus for team INSET.

This is a playback of a past live webinar.  Aimed at middle and senior leaders who are keen to support the wellbeing of their team, this webinar will explore four simple ideas that will help you to lead with empathy and compassion and look after the wellbeing of your incredible teams during these… interesting… times.

This is a recording of a past webinar, Pooky explore 5 simple ideas for engaging with parents and carers whose personal experiences of schools mean that they are fearful or untrusting of school and are less likely to engage. There is no quick win, but these simple ideas which don't need to cost anything to implement have worked well in many schools.”