This is an essential course for childminders, room leaders, managers and Designated Safeguarding Leads. This course builds on the knowledge and explores complex issues around Safeguarding and Child Protection.

By the end of the course, you will

• have explored ways of working with complex family situations
• have increased awareness of specialist safeguarding issues such as domestic violence, FGM and substance misuse.
• consider Serious Case Reviews in depth
• recognise need for professional curiosity, proactive partnership working and ways of developing confidence in staff to be alert to the risks surrounding children.
• know what makes a good quality referral to social care
  • update your knowledge of recent policy and legislative changes

This unique, innovative and practical workshop considers issues around setting up and maintaining the data on the schools’ SCR in the context of the regulations, guidance and best practice.

Course objectives include:

• To understand both the regulatory framework and best practice underpinning the format and content of the SCR
• To consider the categories of staff/workers that should be recorded on the SCR
• To explore options around format and content of the SCR
• To equip participants with a practical understanding of all pre-employment checks for school-based staff, volunteers, contractors and agency workers
• To help participants review their own school SCR and the related pre-employment checking processes

The SCR forms part of the regular Ofsted inspection.

Pupils will: 

• be supported by safer recruited staff 

Practitioners will: 

• benefit from a greater knowledge and practical understanding in maintaining the SCR
• have greater confidence in engaging with Ofsted around compliance

Settings will: 

• be safer organisations that can demonstrate greater compliance around pre-employment checks and verifications

Staff responsible for setting up and/or maintaining the Single Central Record (SCR)

This course identifies and provides strategies for teaching the crucial concepts that children need to learn in the early stages of reading, from directionality through to working on unknown words in context. 

It identifies the three main sources of information that good readers use to read: Meaning, Language Structure and Phonics, and provides training on how to support these three areas in simple, practical ways. 

Participants will be taught how to take a Running Record. This is a simple assessment that can be taken on any text. They are a quick and efficient way of gathering information about a child’s reading and are particularly useful for children who struggle with reading, providing valuable information about the strategies a child uses/ignores. Once gaps have been identified they can be addressed in order to support the child’s reading development. 

Participants will:

• have a clear understanding of the building blocks that need to be taught in order for children to develop into good readers 
• be able to take and analyse a Running Record in order to identify key strengths and weaknesses of readers 
• be able to use a range of simple strategies to support children in addressing any specific gaps

Early Years, KS1 & KS2 Practitioners and Teaching Assistants

An opportunity for Assessment leaders at EYFS, KS1 and KS2 to be able to network with colleagues and share best practice across Royal Greenwich schools.  

Recent local and national assessment developments will also be covered, including:

• Statutory assessment requirements
• National reporting documentation 
• Resources and materials available to support assessments
• Best practice in using data to support school self-evaluation and prepare for inspection

Pupils will:

• benefit from accurate assessment approaches

Practitioners will:

• have access to precise and accurate data analysis approaches to support school improvement

Settings will:

• benefit from assessment processes which are robust and support self evaluation

Assessment Leaders for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 in Primary schools