We all understand that Health and Safety is a fact of a life and it is essential to be fully aware in schools - whether as part of day-to-day operations, trips and visits or for those unforeseen moments. Understanding this importance, this is why our sponsor SchoolPro TLC has added SchoolPro Safety to its arsenal of services to schools. 

SchoolPro Safety provides high quality support and guidance for schools focused on keeping young people safe in education and has over 20 years’ experience in delivering training, providing leadership in schools and running school visits.

SchoolPro Safety will be run by latest team member, Jamie Bartlam who has been working as a teacher and a leader in schools for over 20 years.

Alongside his work running SchoolPro Safety, Jamie still teaches at a large secondary in Birmingham where he leads a big Outdoor Education department. He also supports his local primary school as Chair of the Governing Body.

First Aid Courses

​SchoolPro Safety are pleased to be running the following suite of First Aid courses in Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas. 
 
Monday 3 to Wednesday 5 June 2024 | First Aid at Work
Monday 17 June 2024 | Paediatric First Aid
Tuesday 18 June 2024 | Emergency First Aid at Work
Monday 24 to Wednesday 26 June 2024 | First Aid at Work
Monday 1 July 2024 | Emergency First Aid at Work

This issue includes a featured article and some highlighted programmes, courses and events from our partners to support your professional development and enhance the work of your school. Simply click on the booking link to the course or event you are interested in to get more details or book straight on!
 


​Featured in this issue we have:
 
SWIFT Summer Conference 2024 | Thursday 13 June | Future Skills Centre, Exeter
Hear from a range of international, national and local speakers from across the educational landscape as they discuss the latest issues.
Please click HERE to view more information and book.
 

Highlighted Programmes:
·        SWIFT Devon Art Teachers Conference
·        Devon School Business Managers Association Annual Conference
·        Crafting Exceptional Teachers by Tailoring Teacher Growth with Proven Strategies
·        Professional Communities
·        Primary Subject Leader Briefings
·        Algebra in the Primary Classroom
·        Events for your diary

This issue includes a featured article and some highlighted programmes, courses and events from our partners to support your professional development and enhance the work of your school. Simply click on the booking link to the course or event you are interested in to get more details or book straight on!
 

Featured in this issue we have:
 
SWIFT Summer Conference 2024 | Thursday 13 June | Future Skills Centre, Exeter
Hear from a range of international, national and local speakers from across the educational landscape as they discuss the latest issues.
Please click HERE to view more information and book.
 
Highlighted Programmes:
·        SWIFT Devon Art Teachers Conference
·        Devon School Business Managers Association Annual Conference
·        Crafting Exceptional Teachers by Tailoring Teacher Growth with Proven Strategies
·        Professional Communities
·        Primary Subject Leader Briefings
·        Algebra in the Primary Classroom
·        Events for your diary

With the Summer Term well underway and a Bank Holiday afoot, we are pleased to bring you this May issue of UPDATE.

Associate & Strategic Leader of Teaching & Research Schools (ESW) Roger Pope CBE opens with thoughts on the different contexts for teachers, doctors and surgeons:

"Think of the complexity of a school, where in a class, 30 people are all interacting with one another, or a school where hundreds are interacting. Factor in the added complexity of the family and friendships context. The fact that every child learns slightly – or even hugely – differently, brings an infinitely varied range of previous learning and experience to any given moment in a lesson, an infinite range of emotional responses and is growing and changing by the day…hour…minute. Add in the complementary complexity of the teacher"

​Read some of the highlights from the The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project and WomenEd The Mother of All Pay Gaps Conference and the Summer Term Estates Management Professional Community.

Newly appointed Regional Lead for the South West for Whole School SEND, Emma Vyvyan Find shares some of her good intentions in our interview and their professional development offer to support you and your children and young people.

Helen Thorneycroft from the Kingsbridge Research School guides on teachers emphasising the ​‘Why’ while modelling: ​“Teacher discussions that allow students to elaborate on their ideas or their methods, to reason out their thinking and question their strategies, have been associated with progress measured in the form of improved test scores.”

Sensitive to staff data sharing in mental health emergencies, data experts SchoolPro TLC outline essential guidance based on recent updates from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and provides some key takeaways for you.

Our other sponsors provide details of their services. 
Educatering awakens appetites with new menus this Summer Term and photos to prove it and also prove their local credentials with supplier appreciation for their valued partnership with Dartmoor Farmers, who have been farming the land for thousands of years and who provide beef and lamb for school lunches.

ONVU Learning considers the merits of teacher-led continuing professional development and championing autonomy in professional development and challenges traditional professional development models. You can meet ONVU Learning in a FREE Excellent Teachers Create Excellent Memories Webinar on Thursday 11 July 2024 from 0830 – 0900 and at our Summer Conference on Thursday 13 June 2024. 

And Exeter Supply Partnership Teacher provides top tips for getting into primary supply teaching with their professional support and care. "There are many supply teaching agencies out there, so you need to find the one that suits you and your needs best."

We wish you a fulfilling remainder of this term and a lovely Bank Holiday weekend.