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The day will develop the skills of new language teachers, giving delegates a better understanding of the languages National Curriculum, how to deliver lessons and how to integrate this subject into their everyday teaching.

Delegates will explore the issues and gain a better understanding around progression within the programme of study and develop their own skills.

This unique, subject-level programme for secondary maths NQTs and trainees offers intensive and specialist maths training and development from recognised experts in their subject.

It will develop subject expertise and practice in the classroom.

NQTs will be provided with a range of resources and strategies to try out at school as well as having the opportunity to network and share strategies with other NQTs and trainees teaching maths.

As part of the HCC commissioned transition project, the Herts for Learning Early Years team are providing briefing sessions to share details of the project, the transition level of need pathway and provide each school with a copy of the transition toolkit. The overall focus of the project is to ensure a smooth transition for all children, including those at risk of underachievement.

The aim of the briefing is for early years practitioners working in school nursery and reception classes to receive information on the transition level of need pathway and tools developed as part of the project. It will be important that practitioners gain an understanding of how this can support early identification of those children with potential barriers to learning and help enable them to experience a smooth transition to school.

A transition toolkit will be provided for each school with a range of resources to support transition practice.

This new virtual user group is designed for delegates that are unable to attend one of our face to face user groups allowing them to log in from the comfort of their desk in school or from home.

During this cross-phase session we will provide the delegate with up-to-date information on developments within the Capita SIMS software and statutory returns, as well as exchanging information on processes and procedures undertaken on a day-to-day basis.  

The sessions are free to schools that have a support contract with data management services.

Once you have booked onto this webinar you will receieve a link to access the platform the webinar is on 24 hours before it due to take place. After the webinar has taken place a link to evaluate the session will be sent out.

Entries are invited for the Year 7 Mathematics Challenge 2020.

Each school is encouraged to submit teams of four Year 7 students for this friendly inter-school competition. (Maximum of 2 teams per school.)
The challenge will comprise a mixture of challenge, problem-solving and fun.

There are four heats scheduled across the County; winners from individual heats will go forward to the Final, to be held on Thursday 26th March at the Hertfordshire Development Centre, Stevenage.

This new forum is for language departments that want to validate their professional judgement in marking, enhance their moderation processes, and improve outcomes for their pupils. It will also provide an opportunity for delegates to compare and discuss different types of assessment used across a range of contexts and their impact. Each session will focus on a particular aspect of assessment, before moving on to live moderation of speaking and writing tasks, and will end with a summary of the lessons learned to improve outcomes for pupils, departments and schools.

This year, the focus of this moderation session will be reading and writing. The session will provide an excellent opportunity for teachers to work together with colleagues across schools, to help to build a consistent understanding of the national curriculum standards and year group expectations. We will also use the sessions to promote good practice in building powerful assessment and formative feedback opportunities into everyday learning in order to plug gaps, build on existing learning and ensure progression in reading and writing skills.

It is essential that delegates bring along examples of pupils' work from their class. We will provide suggested assessment tasks for both reading and writing for teachers to use with the pupils in advance of the sessions. Information will be sent to delegates and also uploaded to the grid at: http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/assessment/ks2/moderationclusters.shtml

This year, the focus of this moderation session will be reading and writing. The session will provide an excellent opportunity for teachers to work together with colleagues across schools, to help to build a consistent understanding of the national curriculum standards and year group expectations. We will also use the sessions to promote good practice in building powerful assessment and formative feedback opportunities into everyday learning in order to plug gaps, build on existing learning and ensure progression in reading and writing skills.

It is essential that delegates bring along examples of pupils' work from their class. We will provide suggested assessment tasks for both reading and writing for teachers to use with the pupils in advance of the sessions. Information will be sent to delegates and also uploaded to the grid at: http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/assessment/ks2/moderationclusters.shtml

A highly creative course developing RE teaching through the arts and literature. The day is designed to provide specialists and non-specialist teachers of RE with ideas and strategies to help them to teach RE creatively and with increased confidence.

The exemplars explored aim to broaden and deepen subject knowledge with a specific focus on Christianity across each key stage. This course will also support those schools who are developing the ‘Understanding Christianity’ project.

There will be a mix of tutor led input, discussions and the main focus of the day will be trying out new ideas and activities and considering how to implement them to enhance RE teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.

This popular, interactive and exciting programme run by the Early Years team supports NQTs in the Early Years Foundation Stage through a tailor made programme.

It consists of four full days spread over the academic year that cover essential aspects to support the development of high-quality practice and provision.

A final session at the end of the programme consists of an interactive webinar on 25th June 2020 that will enable the opportunity for Q&A with an EY adviser following reflection of the year. Options for CPD are available for NQTs that start in the spring term.