The aim of this workshop is to provide delegates with an understanding of fire prevention, responses to fire in the workplace and how to correctly deal with them.
A practical demonstration will take place, along with training on how to use a fire extinguisher.
Delegates will:
- gain fire safety awareness of their surrounding environment
- understand fire prevention in the workplace
- learn correct responses in the event of fire
- gain practical fire fighting skills and fire extinguisher knowledge
- understand roles and responsibilities of the fire warden
This workshop is aimed at H&S representatives, department heads, managers or any designated personnel for this role.
Recent Ofsted reports have identified poor recruitment and suitability check processes as significant factors leading to ineffective safeguarding. This automatically results in an inadequate overall judgment. Further actions have identified gaps in staff support, supervision and training for staff for both groupcare and childminder settings.
Safe recruitment practices together with ongoing staff support and supervision through regular team meetings, 1:1s, appraisals and inductions are key to ensuring highly effective and meaningful engagement between staff and managers, including childminding assistants and childminders. It also provides an essential opportunity for leaders and staff to identify training needs, prioritise staff wellbeing, discuss concerns confidentially and to offer guidance within the role.
Good staff management is vital to ensuring children are kept safe but also that their learning and development needs are met by committed, skilled and motivated staff.
The training will cover:-
- Safer recruitment procedures and policies
- Robust probationary and induction period
- Effective team meetings
- The role and format of 1:1s and ways to implement them
- Conducting an appraisal
- Having difficult conversations
- Managing expectations and balancing staff needs
- Staff wellbeing and workloads
This training will be interactive and an opportunity to share best practice and common issues.
PVIs and Childminders - managers, deputy managers and room leaders
This course provides an opportunity for Governors to develop a strong focus on their core strategic functions below:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent
- Meeting safeguarding responsibilities
Governors will:
- have a clear understanding of the role for which they have volunteered
- become active participators and effective Governors as quickly as possible
- understand how to get to know their school and how to challenge
- be confident when dealing with written information
- be able to interrogate data
- be confident in managing their accountability responsibilities
- understand their safeguarding role and responsibilities
New or recently appointed/elected Governors
This course will enable all practitioners to deliver a structured, multi-sensory, and cumulative phonics literacy programme.
Training will include reading and spelling theory and principles of effective teaching within the programme. It will also cover the reassessment process.
Pupils with barriers to learning will:
- acquire phonic and spelling via a structured, cumulative, multi-sensory learning programme
Practitioners will:
- benefit from training from experienced dyslexia specialist teachers and understand the best ways to improve reading and spelling outcomes
Settings will:
- have staff who are trained to deliver a successful teaching programme. STEPS will observe the staff member teaching the programme if requested by school
Teaching Assistants, SENCOs and Parents
Course attendees will be sent a link via email before the training, giving them access to a 30 minute video which they should watch before attending the course. If you are booking this course for someone else, please forward the link to them when you receive it. It is important that they watch the video before attending the course.