This half-day course will explore the range of assessment tools available to all SENCOs for use in schools. These tools are designed to help SENCOs enrich the ‘assess, plan, do, review’ cycle by adding depth to the range of other information gathered from normal school systems, pupils and their parents.

This course is designed for those who are new to the role of designated senior person (DSP) for child protection and have completed stage one safeguarding children training for school staff. The course explores the role and the responsibilities of the DSP. This course is for all schools in the Hertfordshire area.

This course is designed for school administrators and data managers with little or no knowledge of SIMS Reporting. Delegates will be shown how to create new reports, edit existing ones and become familiar with the SIMS Reporting structure, enabling them to produce class lists, letters and labels in an efficient way.

At the end of the course, delegates will be given the opportunity to email the reports they have created back to their school, for use in their SIMS database.

Many pupils lack resilience in mathematics. Teaching assistants can make a real difference to improve this.

This two-hour practical session will support TAs to develop pupils’ resilience in mathematics.

Delegates will leave with a range of practical strategies that they can use to:
• support problem-solving
• teach pupils to sustain their focus when asked to think for themselves
• improve pupil’s confidence and understanding of fractions.

The local cluster training is repeated in morning and afternoon sessions so as many TAs as possible can benefit.

Many pupils lack resilience in mathematics. Teaching assistants can make a real difference to improve this.

This two-hour practical session will support TAs to develop pupils’ resilience in mathematics.

Delegates will leave with a range of practical strategies that they can use to:
• support problem-solving
• teach pupils to sustain their focus when asked to think for themselves
• improve pupil’s confidence and understanding of fractions.

The local cluster training is repeated in morning and afternoon sessions so as many TAs as possible can benefit.

This training aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding health and safety and promote a proportionate and sensible approach to safety in schools. The course will provide an overview of health and safety management within schools and summarise key areas in which management control is particularly important.

Paediatric First Aid

Delivered by the education services director for primary, and a range of specialist advisers from Herts for Learning, this half-day session will provide updates on current topics in primary education.

Headteachers are invited to book themselves and another member of their senior leadership team to support school discussion. The full agenda will be available closer to the event.

This one-day course will focus on what ‘working at greater depth’ in Year 2 could look like for both English and mathematics. We will identify the aspects of the curriculum which need to be secured in order to assess a child as working at greater depth and explore samples of work which might exemplify this.

Teachers are asked to bring a small selection of English and mathematics work for a child whom they feel could be considered as working at greater depth, or as ‘on track’ to achieve this standard. These will be used to support the discussions over the day and for English at least, should include work from across the curriculum.

Looking ahead to the teacher assessment deadline, we will discuss how time can be used most effectively to support pupils to secure and demonstrate the learning required. We will draw upon the Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF) for Year 2 and the exemplifications materials which indicated a child was working at greater depth, as well as other materials. These will be used to help delegates form their own judgements for pupils they work with and identify steps to move them on further.

This essential workshop is part of a county-wide programme to introduce schools to the Hertfordshire SEND toolkit. This newly developed resource accompanies the Hertfordshire SEND Quality Offer and the SEND Benchmark & Planning Tool. Together this suite of materials provides schools with a vision, a self-evaluation framework and now has a toolkit providing a range of resources, tools and guidance to support the onward journey.