Events

Register below for any of the events hosted by Chiltern Teaching School Hub

Recently Qualified Teachers webinar series:

• Metacognition - Ensuring students have opportunity to plan, monitor and evaluate
  January 24th 4.00pm
  Metacognition - Ensuring students have opportunity to plan, monitor and evaluate

  Zara Peskett - Assistant Headteacher for Staff Development at Shenley Brook End School, presents an useful session on metacognition.

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• Managing SEND in the mainstream classroom
  February 2nd 4.00pm
  Managing SEND in the mainstream classroom

  Coralie Bordiak - Inclusion Manager and SLE for SEND at Chantry Primary Acadamy, presents a further session of SEND in the mainstream classroom, with strategies for managing SEND.

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• Effective Feedback models - Peer and self-assessment
  February 7th 4.00pm
  Effective Feedback models - Peer and self-assessment

  Hannah Page - Assistant Headteacher and SLE for Assessment at Chantry Primary School, presents a session on effective feedback models.

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• Cognitive Theory for Learning Principles (Primary Examples)
  February 10th 4.00pm
  Cognitive Theory for Learning Principles (Primary Examples)

  Hannah Crawford - Assistant Principle at Exeter School, presents a useful session on Cognitive theory for learning principles

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• Marking - keeping it effective but saving time
  February 21st 4.00pm
  Marking - keeping it effective but saving time

  Katy Norsworthy - SLE for Teaching and Learning at Challney High School for Girls presents a session on keeping marking effective.

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• Mentors - Supporting ECTs with Learners Using English as an Additional Language
  February 23rd 4:00pm
  Mentors - Supporting ECTs with Learners Using English as an Additional Language

  Sheila Hopkins and Caroline Bruce from The Bell Foundation, present a session aimed at any staff involved in mentoring ECTs. They have considered:

  • A top level overview of the principles of a sound EAL pedagogy.
  • Practical ways you can support teachers in meeting the needs of learners who use English as an additional language.

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• Blended and Online Learning
  February 28th 4.00pm
  Blended and Online Learning

  Gemma Williamson - Deputy Principal for Teaching and Learning at The Hazeley Academy presents a session on blended and online learning.

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• Supporting Students to Read for Pleasure
  March 7th 4:00pm
  Supporting Students to Read for Pleasure

  Georgina Stapleton - Director of English at The Hazeley Academy, presents a useful session on supporting students to read for pleasure.

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• Understanding EAL: Contexts, Policies and Pedagogy - Session 1
  March 9th 4:00pm
  Understanding EAL: Contexts, Policies and Pedagogy - Session 1

  Caroline Bruce and Sarah Moodie from The Bell Foundation, present a session as an introduction to English as an additional language. They will draw on up to date research to consider:

  • What EAL actually means
  • EAL and diversity
  • Factors affecting attainment of learners using EAL
  • What an inclusive pedagogy looks like for learners using EAL

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• Aspiring to Middle Leadership
  March 14th 4.00pm
  Aspiring to Middle Leadership

  Gemma Williamson - Deputy Principal for Teaching and Learning at The Hazeley Academy, presents a session on Middle Leadership.

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• Maths - Ensuring progress for all of your learners
  March 21st 4.00pm
  Maths - Ensuring progress for all of your learners

  Lisa Phee - MaST trained, Enigma Maths Hub Mastery Specialist and Adrian Bee - MaST trained, Southfield Primary School, present to us a session on Maths and ensuring progress for learners.

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• Primary PE
  March 22nd 4.00pm
  Primary PE

  Jess Elford - Deputy Headteacher at Holmwood School, offers a session on Primary PE.

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• EAL: Comprehensible English - The Language of Instructions and Checking Understanding - Session 2
  March 24th 4:00pm
  EAL: Comprehensible English - The Language of Instructions and Checking Understanding - Session 2

  Emily Curran and Karen Warwick from The Bell Foundation, present a session providing practical quick win strategies, that all staff working with learners who use English as an additional language, can use to ensure that their own language is as accessible as possible.

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• Primary Science - Misconceptions and Prior Conceptions
  March 29th 4.00pm
  Primary Science - Misconceptions and Prior Conceptions

  Sarah Hand - Head of System Leadership and Staff development at IFTL, presents a session on the misconceptions and prior conceptions of Primary Science.

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• Ongoing Assessment of Learning
  April 25th 4.00pm
  Ongoing Assessment of Learning

  Hannah Page - Assistant Headteacher and SLE for Assessment, presents a session on the ongoing assessment of learning 
  
  

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• EAL: Language for Learning - Planning to meet the language needs of learners using English as an additional language - Session 3
  April 26th 4:00pm
  EAL: Language for Learning - Planning to meet the language needs of learners using English as an additional language - Session 3

  Sheila Hopkins and Katy Isaac from The Bell Foundation, present a session providing a practical framework for planning how to mesh the language teaching needed, to ensure that the subject content is accessible for learners using English as an additional language.

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• Inspiring Writing
  May 5th 4.00pm
  Inspiring Writing

  Colin Moore - Deputy Headteacher and SLE for English, presents a useful session on Inspiring Writing

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Wider CPD

• Being an Effective Subject Leader
  25th January 2022 via Zoom
  Being an Effective Subject Leader

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Enjoyment, Engagement and Excellence for all in Physical Education
  26th January 2022 at Hillborough Junior School
  Enjoyment, Engagement and Excellence for all in Physical Education

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Developing Questioning for Maths for KS1 and KS2
  26th January 2022 via Zoom
  Developing Questioning for Maths for KS1 and KS2

  

  Free places to Alliance Members,  £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Pictorial, Concrete and Abstract approaches to teaching Maths
  27th January 2022 via Zoom
  Pictorial, Concrete and Abstract approaches to teaching Maths

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Improving Reading Comprehension
  27th January 2022 via Zoom
  Improving Reading Comprehension

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• An Introduction to Character Education
  31st January 2022 via Zoom
  An Introduction to Character Education

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Developing Vocabulary for Communication
  31st January 2022 via Zoom
  Developing Vocabulary for Communication

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Improving Phonics specific to KS1
  1st February 2022 via Zoom
  Improving Phonics specific to KS1

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• History
  1st February 2022 via Zoom
  History

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Community Languages and EAL Can Benefit Each Other
  2nd February 2022 webinar
  Community Languages and EAL Can Benefit Each Other

  This webinar will focus on the benefits of multilingualism and provide guidance on how to support multilingual learners in the classroom. 

  Practical recommendations will be made as to how best to support community language maintenance as wel as English as an additional language development for bilingual learners, that will benefit the individual learner and ultimately enhance the UK's multilingual capacity.

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• Finance and Enterprise - Part 1
  2nd February 2022 via Zoom
  Finance and Enterprise - Part 1

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Early Writing - In the Moment, Learning for Literacy
  2nd February 2022 via Zoom
  Early Writing - In the Moment, Learning for Literacy

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Fluency and Counting
  3rd February 2022 via Zoom
  Fluency and Counting

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Block and Play Therapy
  3rd February 2022 via Zoom
  Block and Play Therapy

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Welcoming Refugee Children: Advice and Guidance for School
  9th February 2022 webinar
  Welcoming Refugee Children: Advice and Guidance for School

  This webinar will provide schools and practitioners with useful information, as well as practical guidance to help ensure a smooth induction period for learners and their families. The content will be of interest to schools welcoming families from Hong Kong and other countries, as well as those from Afghanistan.

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• Finance and Enterprise - Part 2
  9th February 2022 via Zoom
  Finance and Enterprise - Part 2

  

  Free places to Alliance Members, £49 per person non-members

  For more information and to book your space, please contact Tracey Murphy via email: lutonfirst@ctg.ac.uk or call 01582 522121

• Developing skill in Woodwork
  24th February 2022 at Woolenwick Infant and Nursery School
  Developing skill in Woodwork

  You will find out how woodwork complements the EYFS and KS1 curriculum and the acquisition of learning disposition
  such as problem-solving and resilience.

  Find out more here