LEO Professional Learning Newsletter
Wednesday 17th April 2024
Olevi Professional Learning Programmes
Outstanding Teacher Programme
Classroom practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of the latest innovative pedagogy and develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to make a significant impact on their pupils and inspire others to become outstanding practitioners within a coaching culture.
Click here to view the dates and book your place.
Power of Coaching Programme
Practitioners will gain a deeper understanding about the power of coaching and the impact that great coaching has on learning - being able to confidently apply several strategies to deepen the thinking of pupils; inspire colleagues to develop and grow; and become a more reflective and energised professional. As a credible coach, professionals will be able to coach informally, formally and in a structured way using the OLEVI Analytical Coaching programme.
Click here to view the dates and book your place for May.
Senior Outstanding Leadership in Education Programme
The best senior leaders have an aspirational vision and know how to balance challenge and support, successfully overcoming complex barriers to achieve significant and sustainable impact. The programme will provide greater clarity, grow confidence, and develop competence of senior leaders, enabling strategic reflection on organisational improvement.
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Subject Specific Professional Learning
The votes are in! You voted for which subject specific professional learning sessions you would like to be held in the spring and summer terms and the chosen sessions can be found below. Places are limited so please sign up quickly to secure your place.
BASICS OF KS1 CODING
DATE: THURSDAY 25TH APRIL 2024
TIME: 4PM-5.30PM
VENUE: LEO OFFICES, 314 MALDEN RD, CHEAM,
SUTTON SM3 8EQ
AUDIENCE: ALL WELCOME
THIS SESSION WILL FOCUS ON THE
FOLLOWING AREAS:
UNDERSTANDING THE FUNDAMENTAL
CONCEPTS OF CODING
EXPLORING BEGINNER-FRIENDLY CODING
LANGUAGES AND TOOLS
Click here to book.
BASICS OF KS2 CODING
DATE: TUESDAY 18TH JUNE 2024
TIME: 4PM-5.30PM
VENUE: LEO OFFICES, 314 MALDEN RD, CHEAM,
SUTTON SM3 8EQ
AUDIENCE: ALL WELCOME
(SESSION LIMITED TO 25 ATTENDEES)
THIS SESSION WILL FOCUS ON THE
FOLLOWING AREAS:
EXPLORING BEGINNER-FRIENDLY CODING
LANGUAGES AND TOOLS
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CODING
IN CULTIVATING CRITICAL THINKING,
PROBLEM-SOLVING, AND COMPUTATIONAL
THINKING SKILLS
Click here to book.
COMPOSING IN THE CLASSROOM
DATE: WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE 2024
TIME: 4PM-5.30PM
VENUE: LEO OFFICES, 314 MALDEN RD, CHEAM,
SUTTON SM3 8EQ
AUDIENCE: ALL WELCOME
(SESSION LIMITED TO 25 ATTENDEES)
THIS SESSION WILL IDENTIFY THE KEY
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR
MUSIC COMPOSITION.
-IT WILL ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE
TECHNIQUES FOR SCAFFOLDING AND
SUPPORTING PUPILS' COMPOSITIONAL
PROCESSES.
- A VARIETY OF PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
INCLUDING SOUNDSCAPES, MUSICAL
STORYTELLING AND RHYTHMIC
COMPOSITION GAMES WILL BE EXPLORED.
Click here to book.
ECT Subject Specific Professional Learning
ECT Training: Science (First Year ECTs)
Session Outline:
Identify the key components of a good science lesson and learning environment
Explore the science National curriculum and the ECF
Observe science lessons in action in your key stage
Share and learn from practical ideas and resources
If you are a first year ECT, please click here to book your place.
Professional Learning Spotlight
Challenge Partners SW London and Surrey Hub Meeting
Senior leaders from @LEOacademies & @SuttonEdTrust joined together for the spring SW London & Surrey Hub meeting.
Updates from @ChallengePartnr
Sharing effective practice from @CCIacademy
Hub priorities
Post QAR feedback from @CCJacademy
Professional learning
You can read our Hub Newsetter here.
Publications, Vlogs, Blogs and News
Rehearse and Repeat
By Alex Quigley
Adaptive teaching may be tricky to define, but we must define it well, and exemplify it, otherwise it will prove an empty buzzword.
I’ve tried to characterise it into broadly two types of adaptations:
Microadaptations (Corno, 2008). Sensitive, moment-to-moment adaptations responding to pupils’ learning e.g. deploying flexible grouping in a history lesson to quickly reexplain how they might more effectively plan their essay on Scrooge.
Significant adaptations. Pupils with a learning difficulty or disability may require significant adaptations and schools are required to ensure reasonable adjustments are made e.g., offering additional Teaching Assistant support with complex tasks. (these can be concurrently described as ‘reasonable adjustments’ when supporting pupils with SEND).
Click here to find out more.
Rehearse and Repeat
EEF
Grace Coker, our maths specialist, considers how rehearsing a teaching technique outside of the classroom can support practitioners to enhance their teaching skills and embed habits.
Click here to find out more.
Supporting student success: the power of metacogntion in the classroom
What is metacognition and why is it important?
Metacognition is the ability to reflect on and regulate one’s own thinking processes. It involves an understanding and an awareness of how we learn, think and problem-solve. Although metacognition is often thought of as thinking about thinking or learning about learning, it also requires us to recognise and manage our own learning behaviours.
Click here to find out more.
Ofsted Music Subject Review
By Mark Hayes
This is my summary of Ofsted's Music Subject Report released back in September 2023. I've summarised each section and have included some links below to take you to the level of information you would find helpful.
The Main Findings, Discussion and Recommendations cover most of the key points from the report.
However, I have also summarised the Primary and Secondary findings if you wish to refer to more detail.
Click here to find out more.
External Professional Learning Opportunities
Leaders for Impact
Now in its seventh year, Leaders for Impact is a year-long leadership development programme for headteachers and senior school leaders in a position to influence whole school approaches to creative and cultural learning.
Do you want to develop your leadership skills?
Are you currently leading or ambitious to lead on creative and cultural learning in and beyond your school community?
Do you want to make positive changes on a whole school, local and national level?
Do you want to join a network of leaders and schools that collaborate, support, and embed innovative practice?
If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’, this is the leadership development programme for you.
Click here to find out more.
Tudor Grange Research School
A FREE series of six webinars exploring Assessment and Feedback.
This series supports teachers in understanding how to apply the research evidence so that they teach in a responsive fashion.
Sign up HERE: http://tinyurl.com/rcfrbx96
Metacognition - Getting Evidence into the Classroom Twilight Programme
22 April, 2024
15:45 - 16:45
Come to th Greenshaw Research School free Metacognition in the classroom webinar for ECTs and teachers on Monday 22 April.
Find out more here.
Primary English Subject Leader Update
15:45 - 17:00 25/04/2024
These free to access sessions are an excellent way to keep up to date with all the news, issues and developments in the subject. This term’s focus will support English subject leaders to further enhance the curriculum and secure highly effective teaching and learning across the school.
Learning outcomes
understand the new developments in primary English
feel connected with other subject leaders
have ideas and information to disseminate to your school
Click here to book.
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Cornwall Research School - Evidence Briefings
During the evidence briefings we will highlight the key evidence on each topic, discuss the practical and contextual implications of the evidence and share insight and resources to support your impactful implementation of the evidence.
The session will be from 3:30pm to 5:00pm and on zoom.
Making the best use of teaching assistants 18th April - 3.30pm-5pm
Teacher feedback to improve pupil learning - 24th April 3.30pm-5pm
Find out more here.
Developing Teachers' Creativity
Wednesday 1st May 4.00PM - 5.00PM
Free for AccessArt Members
Living a creative life or developing an artistic skill can improve wellbeing, confidence and a positive mindset. Yet often, it's a skill we 'unlearn' as we grow out of childhood. How can we best support ourselves to reconnect with our creativity, and in turn, pass this onto the children we teach?
Led by Dr Penny Hay, this session will highlight and discuss ways in which teachers can identify, nurture and maintain their own creativity, and how this can positively impact the art lessons they deliver.
If you are a teacher who feels you would like to explore or reconnect with your creativity, we would love for you to join us!
Reflecting and Assessing your SEND provision
Derby Research School
30th April 4pm-5pm
This Twilight session aims to support Leaders, including SENCOs, complete purposeful self-evaluations of their SEND practice within their schools.
The Review Process
Will consider multiple areas of school life that could impact a child such as:
· Outcomes for pupils with SEND
· Leadership of SEND
· The quality of teaching and learning for pupils with SEND
· Working with pupils and parents/carers of pupils with SEND
· Assessment and identification
· Monitoring, tracking and evaluation
· The efficient use of resources
· The quality of SEND provision
Case Study
A case study will be shared of how a successful review has been completed and what activities were undertaken to complete this.
Click here to find out more.
ConnectED with special guest Doug Lemov
30th April 4pm-5.30pm
The Two Counties Trust and Beckfoot Trust would love for you to join us for our next ConnectED event. This time our special guest is Doug Lemov! Connect with Doug as he shares his insights on checking for understanding.
ConnectED is a free event and an opportunity for you to connect with education's leading thinkers. Sessions are interactive and include question and answer.
Click here to find out more.
Primary Art Curriculum Support: Working with Shape and Colour
Wednesday 8th May 4.00PM-5.00PM GMT
Free for AccessArt Members
Join us for our next pathway support session where will be discussing the ‘Working with Shape and Colour‘ pathway from the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum.
These pathway support sessions aim to build teacher knowledge around how the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum pathways are constructed, and how you can adapt the pathways to suit your school.
Celebrating AccessArt Pathways: Creating School Exhibitions and Displays
Tuesday 14th May 4.00PM-5.00PM GMT
Free for AccessArt Members
There is no better way to celebrate the creative journeys and outcomes of the AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum than by coordinating a whole school or classroom display. Join us to explore how we can think creatively about how to create exhibitions which best capture the ethos of AccessArt’s open-ended, journeyful approach.
Introduction to Generative AI Learning Path with Google
This learning path provides an overview of generative AI concepts, from the fundamentals of large language models to responsible AI principles.
Find out more here.
NEW FREE EVENT
@EducEndowFoundn will soon be releasing a new, updated Implementation guidance report.
Join Blackpool Research School to find out what's changed, and what the key messages from the new evidence review mean for schools.
Wednesday 15 May, 4pm
Click here to find out more.
Unlocking the Evidence Transition
Huntington Research School
Making that move from primary to secondary is a significant one. Join Huntingdon Research School on 14th May for our FREE twilight session where we will look at the role of vocabulary and learning behaviours in aiding this transition.
The session is suitable for classroom practitioners as well as year and transition leaders.
Click here to find out more.
Mind the Gap with Tom & Emma
In the show, Mind the Gap: Making Education Work Across the Globe, Tom and Emma interview experts from the US, UK and beyond, and share timely insights on K-12 trends; research-based approaches in need of greater reach; and innovative strategies to close global gaps.
Click here to find out more.
The Open University - Open Learn
Design your own CPD with these free resources from The Open University, created for teachers and teaching assistants working across the UK.
All the content in this hub has been selected by academics across The Open University, specifically for teachers, teaching assistants and support staff working across the secondary, primary and early years sectors, including those involved in home education, special schools and pupil referral units.
Click here to access a range of online professional learning sessions from a range of areas.
Primary Maths Funded Subject Leader Update
HFL Education Hub
15:45 - 17:00 01/05/2024
This funded (free to attend) live update meeting is an excellent way to keep up to date with all the news, issues and developments in maths, making it essential for all maths subject leaders to attend.
The focus will support subject leaders to further enhance the curriculum and secure highly effective teaching and learning across the school. Attendance will ensure teachers are up to date with effective leadership, key messages and the possible actions to undertake.
Learning outcomes:
· gain valuable awareness of the latest and emerging developments in primary mathematics.
· receive support, advice and materials enhance understanding and share current best classroom practice.
The webinar will be recorded to support leaders who are not able to make the live event. Please ensure that you sign up even if you cannot make the live event.
Click here to find out more.
Reading Leader Network
English Hub
Our half termly Reading Leader Network will provide an opportunity to meet other reading leaders working across the 16 London Boroughs supported by the Wandle English Hub.
Each session will focus on a different topic. There will be input from facilitators, updates from the latest research and guidance as well as opportunities for discussion, the sharing of expertise & best practice and networking.
Summer 1: Parental Engagement (Tuesday 7th May)
Summer 2: Strong start to the academic year (Tuesday 25th June)
They will be an online event taking place on Zoom. The sessions will be led by Matthew Courtney, Wandle English Hub Lead, and Emma Quigley, teacher Key Stage Leader and Lead of Phonics, Reading and Spelling at Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School.
Click here to find out more.
WWF Training Courses
There are lots of free training courses available on the WWF website.
Climate Change and Climate System
ESD: Driving change towards sustainable schools
Click here to find out more.
LGFL School Staff Training
LGfL in school support, training and conference events are integral parts of the LGfL Energise curriculum service provided at no extra charge for schools.
Click here to see the training opportunities that are on offer.
Free short online course: Learning for a Sustainable Future
Join a personal and professional global learning journey towards a sustainable future. What on Earth could be more important?
Click here to find out more.
Becoming a Google Certified Coach
A Google Certified Coach is someone who is :
→ Eager to support educators
→ Wanting to drive impactful technology into classrooms
→ Looking to learn research-proven strategies & skills
Does this sound like you?
Click here to find out more.
On-demand training at your fingertips
View the Google on-demand series of webinars designed to help schools and educators in the UK and Ireland get the most out of Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks.
Whether you are an educator, Senior Leadership or IT Administrator you can find a session to suit you.
Click here to find out more.
Adobe Professional Development Courses
Find out all about the free professional learning opportunities on offer from Adobe.
Creativity for all
Adobe Creative Cloud Express in the Classroom
Engaging Video Projects in the Classroom
and many more...
Click here to find out more.
Inclusive Ed Bootcamp: How to meet the needs of a diverse range of students
How can we better meet the needs of a diverse range of students? Sign up for our Inclusive Ed Bootcamp for help and advice. A free webinar series featuring Kate Griggs, the CEO of @MadeByDyslexia.
Throughout the series you will learn about:
The best ways to support different learning needs including dyslexia.
How to use technology to make learning more accessible across all subjects.
Spotting and solving different visible and non visible barriers to learning.
Supporting students with different learning needs online and remotely.
Click here to find out more.
Free online professional development webinars for educators
Oxford University Press has a range of digital webinars to help you continue your professional development online. You can find links to recordings of previously-held webinars, as well as register your interest for upcoming sessions. The recorded webinars are available to watch on demand via Brainshark and you will receive a CPD certificate after watching each one.
Click here to find out more.
Financial Education - Free Online Teacher Training
Complete a free online course, in your own time and at your own speed…
The engaging eLearning courses are self-paced and take between 1.5-2.5 hours to complete. Along the way you will:
Learn how financial education can be made real and relevant to the young people you work with
See where financial education most effectively fits within your curriculum
Discover key tools to assist in the development of financial education
Find out how to access further support and resources to aid financial education delivery
Develop a financial education Action Plan for your own
Click here to find out more.
Developing Reading for Pleasure
Join the Open Learn FREE Developing Reading for Pleasure badged online course.
Developing the skill to read and the will to read are interrelated, however, this course focuses on the latter; it is an exploration of Reading for Pleasure and its significance for children’s lives and development. You will consider current research, debates and challenges that impact on children’s reading and gain knowledge and strategies to help you promote reader engagement across schools, homes and communities.
Click here to find out more.
Online PE CPD for Teachers
England Football's Online PE CPD for Teachers course is designed to increase confidence in the delivery of engaging, inclusive, high-quality Physical Education lessons through the invasion game of football.
Click here to find out more.
Free Anti-Bullying CPD online training
The following online training courses are available:
Click here to find out more.
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