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Designing great Design & Technology units

— Design & Technology

  • Transform your Design & Technology teaching with this informative short course focused on creating purposeful units of work.
  • Designing Great D&T Units will help you move beyond one-off projects and build carefully sequenced learning experiences where pupils develop real skills, knowledge, and creativity.
  • Learn how to plan units that are meaningful, curriculum-aligned, and inspiring for both you and your pupils.
Early Years & Primary

Teaching Assistants Development Programme - 6/6 - Questioning

— Teaching Assistants

  • This development programme specifically designed for Teaching Assistants will run throughout the year and consist of 6 sessions. TA’s can attend all or a selection of these sessions.
  • This final session of the TA Development Programme focuses on the art of effective questioning.
  • TAs will explore how to use open, probing questions to assess understanding, stimulate critical thinking, and guide pupils toward finding their own answers.
  • This evidence-based session will transform interactions from simply “giving the answer” to deeply facilitating the learning process.
  • The session will also explore the Blanks level model of questioning to support pupils with language developmental delay.
All

Supporting Memory in the Classroom

— Other

  • Details to follow
All

RAEYPH (Rochdale Association of Early Years and Primary Headteachers) Steering Group

— Leadership & Management

  • The Steering group is made up of representative Headteachers from each collaborative and a nursery Headteacher.
  • The group is jointly chaired and meets at least once each half term (additional meetings are sometimes arranged) and as well as planning the termly Headteacher conferences.
Early Years & Primary

Using Manipulatives Effectively in KS2

— Maths

  • Manipulatives provide powerful opportunities to deepen understanding and make maths accessible to all learners. This practical course explores how to use a range of manipulatives purposefully to support conceptual understanding without creating dependency
  • Develop confidence in selecting appropriate manipulatives.
  • Understand how manipulatives support conceptual understanding.
  • Explore progression from concrete experiences to abstract thinking.
  • Identify common misconceptions when using manipulatives.
  • Plan lessons where manipulatives promote independence and equitable access to learning.
Primary

Primary History Network Meeting

— History

  • Provide up to date information on curriculum matters
  • Provide access to new and updated resources to refresh the curriculum alongside how they may be applied
  • Bespoke Q and A within and after the session
Early Years & Primary

Governor Training - Leading the Team

  • Details to follow
Governor

SEND/SEMH: Understanding Mild, Moderate & Complex Needs

— SEN

  • Focus: Levels of need across cognitive, communication, sensory, physical and SEMH domains.
  • Goal: Support staff to tailor provision based on complexity of need.
  • Audience: Teachers, support staff, SENCOs and leaders across all phases
All

Basic Introduction to Safeguarding Children & Safe Working Practice

— Safeguarding

  • Basic Introduction to Safeguarding Children / Safer Working Practice - The certificate for this session will include the 2 aspects of training undertaken
  • Audience: recently appointed members of school/college staff including Head Teachers, NQTs, Safeguarding leads, Teaching staff, Support Staff (in any role) or anyone in an Education Setting who needs to undertake this training.
All

Safer Recruitment Training

— Safeguarding

  • Strengthen schools’ safeguards for children
  • Provides a consistent national minimum standard of good practice
All