This course will investigate the specific and important role of the Safeguarding Governor, to ensure the:
- legal requirements are in place and are known and understood by all staff and adults working in your school
- expectations of OfSTED are being met and that governors can provide evidence of their compliance
- expectations from Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance are fully understood and embedded
This is a certified course to support Governors evidence of KCSIE compliance.
Governors will:
- have a clear understanding of their role
- have the knowledge and expertise to hold the school to account for ensuring that the policies and processes are in place and that they are being consistently applied
- have a good understanding of what they should monitor and challenge and how that is reported back to the full Governing Board
- be able to report on the staff's understanding of their role in Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance
All Governors
- A key-note speech by Beccy Earnshaw: Why oracy matters in our schools, especially for our disadvantaged pupils. Beccy will provide us with a framework to support and challenge our thinking about how to implement a high-quality oracy curriculum.
- Charlotte Hacking: Developing Book Talk in our Classrooms. Charlotte will explore how to use literature to help pupils find their voice.
- Rob Dunbabin, Headteacher Cardwell Primary School: Implementing a whole school approach to paired and collaborative talk through Kagan structures.
- Rachel Hogarth Smith, Headteacher Rachel McMillan Nursery School in partnership with East London Early Years Stronger Practice Hub: Increasing the frequency of high-quality interactions between practitioners and children.
- Round table discussions and action planning throughout the day, supported by Beccy Earnshaw.
Beccy Earnshaw: Charity Leader and education social entrepreneur - founding CEO of Voice 21 and schools NorthEast.
Charlotte Hacking: Learning and Programme Director CLPE
The East London Early Years Stronger Practice Hun: Fliss James and Melissa Pendergast
- have a clear understanding of what high-quality oracy education is
- leave with practical strategies to use in school for the implementation of a structured and progressive approach to improving oracy across the curriculum.
This 2 day course will review the knowledge, skills and objectives necessary for First Aid.
This will include CPR, resuscitation, bandaging, burns, and other First Aid issues. A copy of the latest edition of the First Aid at Work manual will be provided and the new certificate will be valid for three years.
Attendance is required on both dates.
Candidates can now requalify up to 28 days after the expiry but must produce their First Aid at Work certificate on the first day of the course as proof of eligibility (this has been extended throughout the Covid-19 pandemic)
Practitioners will:
- be up-to-date and confident in their ability to deal with First Aid situations as and when they arise at work
Those renewing their Health and Safety Regulations, First Aid at Work certificate
This session will explore developing and delivering a curriculum which embeds the ethos of challenge, promoting curiosity and effective learning for children in our settings.
Understanding why we, as practitioners, are doing what we are doing and being able to confidently assess the impact of that learning for children is key to their development and progression.
The characteristics of effective teaching and learning will be explored to support practitioners in identifying, scaffolding and celebrating opportunities for learning in line with the EYFS.
The session will also explore supporting children with SEND in settings to ensure all children are reaching their fullest potential in these crucial early years.
PVIs and Childminders