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09:00 - 09:50
SEN Seminar
Looking at the role of the Teaching Assistant / Learning Skills Assistant when teaching maths to students with ALN/SEN. Applying the Maths For Life ‘Hierarchy of Independence’ to help define progression of attainment whilst teaching for independence. Providing a shared language that helps parents, teaching staff and ALNCo/SENCo align and understand the true attainment of the student.
Karen McGuigan
09:00 - 09:50
SEN Seminar
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Karen Ferguson
09:00 - 09:50
At a time when morale is dropping, fostering community and collaboration, not competition, is key for the future of education. It’s so important to celebrate the things that are going well in our schools, no matter how small, and collaborate with one another to help share the burdens. We need to unlearn the habits drilled into us by competitive thinking. We will all do better, including our students, when we take the time to appreciate our own achievements, and the achievements of others, and find a way to come together and work alongside one another.
Alison Kriel
09:00 - 09:50
SEN Seminar
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Jenny Mosley
09:00 - 09:50
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Nina Jackson, Kelly Hannaghan
09:00 - 09:50
Based on the best selling teacher book, this session will offer a high speed rollercoaster ride focussing on getting children bothered about what they’re learning! Hywel will share ways to develop a pedagogical toolkit, strategies to harness our own professional imaginations and look at making the mundane irresistible.
Hywel Roberts
09:00 - 09:50
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Samantha Garner
09:00 - 09:50
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Awen Ashworth
09:00 - 09:50
Ymunwch â Swyddogion Addysg ac Ymgysylltu â Phobl Ifanc Senedd Cymru i ddysgu am ffyrdd y gallwch helpu eich dysgwyr i ddeall eu hawliau democrataidd fel rhan o'r Cwricwlwm Newydd i Gymru.
Megan Rhys Williams
09:00 - 09:50
This session will introduce The Head and Heart Leadership Programme. We will discuss the importance of leading from both your head and your heart and explore how to get the balance right. You will boost your knowledge about head and heart leadership and refine the skills needed to lead from your head and heart. The session is practical and will give you time to reflect on your own practice and apply learning to your own context.
Bethan Harding MBE
09:00 - 09:50
This session is designed to give education staff an insight into the characteristics and psychology of anger and explore and understand potential triggers. As well as tools, techniques and practical strategies to help pupils manage their anger safely.
Nicola S. Morgan
10:30 - 11:20
This seminar will introduce the audience to the Resilience Leaders Elements Programme. It will guide them through the four elements that work together to develop Resilient Leaders and introduce some of the 12 facets in greater depth. The seminar will also demonstrate how to use RLE as part of developing resilient muscle strength with middle and senior leaders in your setting.
Julie Rees
10:30 - 11:20
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Ollie Frith
10:30 - 11:20
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Nick Evans
10:30 - 11:20
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Niki Jones
10:30 - 11:20
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Nicola S. Morgan
10:30 - 11:20
SEN Seminar
The gift of giving and sharing professional knowledge and expertise to enhance the wellbeing of all pupils. From kindness, listening to pupils and meeting their emotional and learning needs, Nina Jackson will gift you with some amazing practical strategies and methodologies to help students develop their resilience, self-confidence and application to learning so that they have hope and purpose to develop their unique magical ingredients.
Nina Jackson
10:30 - 11:20
Pedagogy and assessment to match and progression for everyone. We are getting there! This session will examine the way the vision for 'Successful Futures' is becoming a reality.
Prof Mick Waters
10:30 - 11:20
This seminar will start to unpick some of our long held and established beliefs around what makes positive mental health and how this interacts with our well-being. It delves beyond some of the ‘known’ knowledge and looks at how we might challenge how we think and interpret our own world narrative.
Ross McWilliam
10:30 - 11:20
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Meriel Jones
10:30 - 11:20
O dan arweiniad Awen Ashworth fe gewch gyfle i ddysgu am Wyddoniaeth yn y blynyddoedd cynnar. Bydd hwn yn sesiwn ymarferol ble byddwch yn cael cyfle i roi cynnig ar wneud arbrofion Gwyddoniaeth syml y gellir eu gwneud eto yn eich lleoliad. Bydd y gweithdy yn rhoi mewnolwg i ddulliau newydd o gyflwyno Gwyddoniaeth gan ddefnyddio offer syml. Gyda’r Cwricwlwm newydd yn yr arfaeth, mae Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg yn un o’r chwe maes dysgu ac arbenigedd.
Awen Ashworth
10:30 - 11:20
We all know literacy and numeracy skills improve the life chances of our young people. However, a significant proportion of children are not at the expected standard in maths on reaching secondary school. This should not sit well with us and it does not need to be this way. Ben Harding is an experienced Headteacher, inspector and maths specialist. In this session he will identify some reasons for this concerning issue and look to share research and practical solutions about how it can be addressed in your school.
Ben Harding
10:30 - 11:20
In this seminar ‘What's in a label? Neurodiversity’ Karen will cover what the term neurodiversity means and the challenges and strengths children and young people will show in school and college. You will leave with reassuringly uncomplicated strategies and techniques.
Karen Ferguson
12:00 - 12:50
Empowering staff with the skills, tools and strategies to implement Oracy as a purposeful activity in the classroom and around the school. Oracy is a powerful tool for all subjects and this workshop explores how it can be used to inspire pupils to ‘find their voice’, express opinions, build their confidence and deepen their learning. This workshop is designed to support all educators to: - Model positive oracy; - Establish oracy success criteria; - Utilise oracy structures; - Build oracy into teaching; - Use oracy to differentiate.
Tim Perris
12:00 - 12:50
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Nicola S. Morgan
12:00 - 12:50
I am not going to stand here and pretend there is a quick fix to the challenges every school faces today but we can all start by giving teachers a voice. Teachers feeling unheard has become a key contributor to today’s ongoing mental health and wellbeing challenges. By empowering teachers and offering them both choice and voice, you will see lasting benefits. In this session, I will speak about how you can do this and case studies of how empowering teachers and emphasising diversity will foster greater collaboration to achieve greater success.
Alison Kriel
12:00 - 12:50
SEN Seminar
Working to meet the needs of a diverse range of pupils/students is challenge in both schools and colleges. For the SENCo/ALNCo this is even more challenging, given the specific and complex needs of the pupils/students they look after. Learning to juggle daily work demands including data, assessments, paperwork can be tricky. This seminar is designed to help the participants to identify parts of their role which take up so much of their time, unpick ways to save time and manage tasks effectively by introducing powerful and flexible tools that are simple to integrate into a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Ginny Bootman
12:00 - 12:50
SEN Seminar
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Joanne Grace
12:00 - 12:50
SEN Seminar
This session looks at the fundamentals of Attachment Theory such as brain development, the attachment cycle, symptoms and presenting behaviours associated with insecure attachment. Knowledge of attachment is now recognised as important for those who work with children and young people. Complex trauma means that very often children/young people have developed maladaptive coping strategies that need to be undone so they can relearn appropriate skills for social integration. This session is full of practical interventions and strategies to support children and adolescents with Attachment disorders.
Karen Ferguson
12:00 - 12:50
Cyflwyniad ar y rhaglen genedlaethol o gyrsiau dysgu a defnyddio’r Gymraeg gan Brif Weithredwr Y Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol. Mae’r Ganolfan yn arwain y sector Dysgu Cymraeg i oedolion ac wedi datblygu porth Cenedlaethol newydd sy’n cyflwyno rhaglen o weithgaredd Dysgu Cymraeg i’r gweithlu addysg.
Donna Lewis
12:00 - 12:50
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Meriel Jones
13:30 - 14:20
Youth Work is often valued (particularly by young people) but not always well understood. In this session, you will learn how, via a voluntary relationship with a Youth Worker, young people learn, develop and progress by gaining skills and knowledge in a variety of settings. Youth Work takes place in both formal (e.g. schools, colleges) and less formal settings (e.g. Youth Clubs, Community Centres, hospitals and on the streets), as well as digitally, with a focus on personal and social development. Youth Workers are also skilled at understanding and breaking down barriers preventing access to services such as formal education and many are effective leaders, at all levels.
Gavin Gibbs, Marco Gil-Cervantes
13:30 - 14:20
Motivating your students through genuine engagement is the route to successful learning. Helping students see how they will be richer from your lessons and the relevance of those lessons to their lives is absolutely essential. Hywel and Martin offer some practical ideas and deep thinking about success in your classroom. They will consider how to tell imaginative stories and develop reading and writing skills useful to the world of the 21st Century. They will also work on writing stories and consider the ways in which reading and writing can broaden your world, your expectations, your confidence and your skills as a communicator. Looking at real writing for real purposes with genuine audiences is at the heart of developing strong approaches to how we read and how we write.
Hywel Roberts, Martin Illingworth
13:30 - 14:20
Being a values-based school means following a model of seven elements in every aspect of school life, from how guests are greeted, to how conflict is mediated between pupils. This session will also look at the authentic modelling by adults, developing an inner curriculum, creating a values-based environment and curriculum, developing quality leadership and the development of an ethical vocabulary. During this seminar you will leave with an understanding of how you can breathe even more life into the values of your school and community.
Julie Rees
13:30 - 14:20
Reports show that some pupils are finding unstructured playground play and socialisation difficult post-Covid. Many schools are having huge problems in the playground. Play is crucial to children’s wellbeing, resilience and ability to learn, with play laying the foundations for literacy, communication and spontaneity. Jenny will highlight key common issues that are found in playgrounds currently and ways of encouraging healthy, active play, good communication between supervisors and children and ideas that children can help to take responsibility for their behaviour and support the problem-solving process to finding solutions to playground issues.
Jenny Mosley
13:30 - 14:20
How can children/young people learn to argue skilfully, both emotionally and with good reasons? Argumentation is a key life skill and central to many essays and exams. This workshop will be practical, fun, and give colleagues great techniques for helping your pupils/students to be more reasonable!
Will Ord
13:30 - 14:20
SEN Seminar
Curriculums and teaching methods change but is the way we are teaching maths today the best way for those with ALN/SEN? This seminar looks at popular topics such as Money, Time, Times Tables, Data Handling and looks at ways to teach them given the world we live in today. It explores ways to utilise technology and student motivation to teach.
Karen McGuigan
13:30 - 14:20
The Education Endowment Foundation indicates that explicitly teaching metacognitive strategies, such as planning, monitoring and evaluating, can have a significantly positive impact on pupil outcomes. The guidance report, outlines seven key recommendations, which offer teachers and senior leaders’ practical advice on how to develop their pupils’ metacognitive skills and knowledge, however teaching assistants (TAs) are in fact best placed to achieve this goal. This session will look at ways to support TAs to develop the understanding to help pupils develop independent learning skills and manage their own learning.
Sara Alston
13:30 - 14:20
One of the areas education seems to struggle with is behaviour management. We continue to use confrontational, punitive systems that are ineffective. What we also need to address is their impact on the mental health of students, especially Neurodiverse students. This session will look at how common elements of behaviour management systems can be damaging to student mental health, as well as potentially being against safeguarding guidance and The Equality Act 2010. It will discuss how your setting can assess your behaviour management system and make adaptations to reduce the harm for the student.
Samantha Garner
13:30 - 14:20
Honnir gan sawl ymchwil bod athrawon ledled y byd yn gadael y proffesiwn un ai yn fuan yn eu gyrfa neu'n ymddeol yn gynnar iawn (Harrison, Newman & Roth, 2006; Perrachione, Rosser & Petersen, 2008; Dolton & Van der Klauuw, 1995). Mae'n broblem byd eang, nid dim ond yng Nghymru. Ond sut mae sicrhau bod athrawon yn parhau ac yn ffynnu yn y proffesiwn? Dewch i ddysgu mwy yn y seminar hwn.
Rhian Tomos
13:30 - 14:20
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Meriel Jones
15:00 - 15:50
Supporting our pupils to become thoughtful and creative through inventive classroom approaches, expanding how they think and feel about an education.
Martin Illingworth
15:00 - 15:50
Over a century of research investigating memory processes has robustly demonstrated that regular testing is beneficial for learning and long-term retention when compared to other learning strategies. However, there is a lack of awareness and understanding of testing and how/why it might benefit learning. Educators may also have concerns about how to successfully embed testing within a course. This workshop will provide an introduction to regular testing, how and why it benefits learning, how educators may embed regular quizzing in their curriculum, and solutions to potential issues they may face in doing so.
Dr Katy Burgess
15:00 - 15:50
Educationally, Mindset has often been attributed to Carol Dweck and Barry Hymer as either Fixed or Growth. However, it is more than this. Mindset is linked to how we perceive our world, our expectations, our development of skills and knowledge, our resilience, and indeed, our ability to get support, accept feedback and even being vulnerable. Switching Mindsets in education might well be an asset,that could help us perform better and in so doing, even help us avoid stress and the dreaded burnout. This session will provide participants with a greater understanding as well as strategies to implement.
Ross McWilliam
15:00 - 15:50
Wellbeing has very much become a buzz word over the last few years, it’s important we get clarity on wellbeing and not hide behind it. This session will explore a new way of looking at how to develop a robust and resilient community in education, where staff feel equipped to support young people thrive in their learning and to be able to manage future adversity.
Kelly Hannaghan
15:00 - 15:50
“Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate” – Carl Jung Music therapy is a reality changer. Music can brighten your mood, reduce stress/ tension as well as improve physical health. Where children have experienced trauma, brain development may be interrupted, leading to functional impairments, affecting mental, emotional and behaviour; health. Within an education setting this can be difficult to manage because the child's unconscious thoughts and feelings can manifest in a range of behaviours including; emotional regulation, disassociation, cognitive ability. Impulse control, self-image and eating disorders. Music Therapy can help and this session shows you how. Target audience: Early Years and Primary
Joy Dando
15:00 - 15:50
The main aim of this seminar is to help you think about how you can make a difference to children and young people (CYP) who are experiencing distress. Specific objectives are: to discuss my experience as a Clinical Psychologist and what it has taught me, introduce psychological models that help us think about CYP’s behaviour as communication, and suggest some things you can do (individual or organisation) to work with CYP experiencing distress
Dr Helen Jones
15:00 - 15:50
This seminar will look at how a team of teachers who set a 'MASSIVE' goal can create a HUGE return. David will adddress the two things that top achievers seek, that most of us avoid, how to get and remain motivated to be more effective and how to take ownership of our commitments.
David Hyner
15:00 - 15:50
Datblygwyd RILL gan Brifysgol Bangor, Prifysgol y Drindod Leeds a Phrifysgol Rhydychen. Mae RILL yn darparu rhaglen iaith a llythrennedd 15 wythnos yn Gymraeg neu yn Saesneg i blant Blwyddyn 3 a 4. Yn wreiddiol, lansiwyd RILL ar lein ym mis Ebrill 2020 yn sgil cyflwyno cyfyngiadau i atal y Coronafeirws rhag lledaenu. Ar hyn o bryd, mae'r Brosiect yn cael ei ehangu o fewn ysgolion Cymru a Lloegr er mwyn helpu gwella sgiliau iaith, cyfathrebu a darllen plant.
Geran Hughes
15:00 - 15:50
Across the sector, we all achieve this in a variety of amazing ways. This workshop breaks down our unorthodox approach to building workshops and youth programmes; and the tactics that we use to keep the interest and attention of those that we have traditionally struggled with.
Calvin Eden
