Primary Leadership Breakfast Briefing
Primary Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers and Assistant Headteachers – up to two delegates per school.
This ‘quick-fire’ leadership briefing provides primary school leaders with access to the most up to date local and national information, research and guidance for developing their schools.
- To keep primary leaders informed and up to date on national and local developments and research.
- To draw attention to changes in policy and legislation and implications for school leadership
- To share good and innovative practice from within Camden, nationally and beyond
This event is free to all schools who are members of Camden Learning.
RE KS3 Standardisation and Moderation
Heads of subjects and KS3 subject leads attend subject specific sessions.
Building on learners’ strengths achieved in primary school, secondary subject specialists discuss how exemplification of ‘age-expectations’ will aid their assessment of both progress and attainment in KS3. Through discussions around the evidence produced from common tasks, or assessment rubrics, teachers gain confidence in their judgements about progress and attainment. These discussions link t ...
Annotated exemplification of an agreed end-of-Year 7 standard for each subject.
Meet subject specialists from other schools, share resources, ideas, confirm understanding, raise questions.
This session is part of the Secondary Standards and Moderation Package, costing 11 learning blocks per school.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
This event is open to all staff working in Camden's schools.
What is Youth MHFA for Schools and Colleges?
Youth MHFA for Schools and Colleges has been designed especially with schools in mind. Based on the Youth MHFA course but targeted to meet the needs of educational environments, Youth MHFA Schools and Colleges will cover key topics around young people’s mental health and wellbeing, with a strong practical focus on how to support young people experiencing mental distress. Whilst the course is not a replacement for the two day Youth MHFA course, delegates will become Champions for better mental health in schools.
What will I learn about on a one day Youth MHFA for Schools and Colleges courses?
- What is mental health and mental ill health?
- Stigma and discrimination
- The five steps of Mental Health First Aid
- How to spot symptoms of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Non judgemental listening skills
How will I learn?
As a one day course, it fits perfectly into schools’ inset training days and busy timetables, making it accessible for teaching staff across sectors. The session will be a mix of presentations, discussions, and group work activities. A safe learning environment will be ensured and you will be supported throughout the whole course. If you don’t feel comfortable joining in certain parts, then there is no pressure to.
How can MHFA for Schools and Colleges make a difference?
- Youth MHFA for Schools and Colleges teaches practical skills that can be used every day
- It gives a deeper understanding to the complex issues relating to young people and mental health
- It helps people recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health issues
- It enables young people to access appropriate professional help
- MHFA England has a proven track record and demonstrates its effectiveness through evaluation.
Ofsted's Education Inspection Framework for September 2019
For all Early Years practitioners in Settings and Childminders working with children aged 0 - 5. Early Years Trustees and Nominated Indivduals.
From September 2019 Ofsted will change the way it inspects schools, colleges, further education institutions and early years settings in England when the common inspection framework (CIF) is replaced by the education inspection framework (EIF).
In Ofsted’s words, the purpose of the new inspection framework is to:
Put the curriculum at the heart of the new framework
Put more emphasis on the quality of education and care as a whole.
It will ensure that we consider children’s experiences and how their learning is being developed and reduce the focus on data,
particularly internal progress data.
Ofsted hopes this will help reduce unnecessary workload for childcare providers.
This one day course will take delegates through what Ofsted expects under the new Education Inspection Framework.
The judgement areas under the EIF are:
Overall effectiveness
Quality of education
Behaviour and attitudes
Personal development
Leadership and management.
Each aspect of the framework will be looked at and discussed
IT training in eCAF
This course is for all practitioners or professionals who come into contact with Camden's children and young people during the course of their work.
This course provides technical training on how to use the eCAF system. Practitioners must attend this training before they can have access to eCAF.
Management of health & safety responsibilities in schools (Cancelled)
To provide headteachers, business managers, bursars with the knowledge and understanding of the key health and safety risks within schools, responsibilities for managing these and the controls required to manage these health and safety risks sensibly and proportionately.
Intended Audience:
Essential for those with management responsibility for H&S within the school e.g. Headteachers, Business Managers, Bursars, etc.
Content to be covered:
- The training aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding health and safety and promote a proportionate and sensible approach to safety in schools
- Provides an overview of health and safety management within schools and summarises key areas in which management control is particularly important
By the end of this course, delegates will have an understanding of:
- The legal framework and management responsibilities for H&S
- A risk based approach to health and safety
- School responsibilities with regard to statutory
- Compliance and project work
- How to monitor your key risks
- Where to access further information and advice
Learning outcomes:
- To improve your confidence in managing health & safety within the school.
- To be able to develop a proportionate system for monitoring health and safety within the school
No certificate required and refresher course will not be mandatory.
Makaton Introduction and Stages 1 & 2
For all Early Years practitioners in Settings and Childminders working with children aged 0 - 5.
An introduction to this system of supporting early years communication with gesture. This has been found especially useful with a range of children, especially those with special educational needs. More recently, the use of signing has been found to be very successful with young babies learning to communicate.
Participants will use basic signs from Stages 1 and 2 and additional vocabulary. Each participant will be given a manual containing the Makaton signs and symbols that have been taught during the course.
Resilient families training, Cohort 2 Seminar
This course is for practitioners and managers working with children, young people and families. Both LA Camden staff as well as staff from the VCS, Schools, Police and Health are invited to attend.
The Resilient Families Framework training consists of three workshops (1 day each) and two practice integration sessions (2 hours). The Resilient Families Framework was designed collaboratively by Camden, AMBIT (Adaptive Mentalization-based Integrative Treatment, developed at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) FPM (Family Partnership Model, developed by the Centre for Child and Parent Support) and input from the Voluntary and Community Sector. RFF supports practitioners to apply tools and processes in four core areas of their work: working with families; working with teams; working with networks and working in practice. The workshops provide an opportunity for practitioners to learn together about RFF, practice the tools and think about how they apply to their practice.
Primary, special and nursery schools bursars forum
This is a termly meeting with updates and discussions for bursars and finance officers. The agenda will be circultated at a later date.
To book your place or for more information please contact Joe Lynch on 020 7974 4507 or email joe.lynch@camden.gov.uk.
To book your place or for more information please contact Joe Lynch on 020 7974 4507 or email joe.lynch@camden.gov.uk.
Safeguarding Children for all
For all practitioners working in Settings and Childminders working with children aged 0 - 5, and Committee Members responsible for the EYFS.
The session will focus on:
- The importance of safeguarding and protecting children.
- Legislation and the requirements of the EYFS.
- Understanding the signs and symptoms of abuse.
- What to do if you are concerned about a child.
- Record keeping and sharing information.
- Safer working practice.