Aimed at Designated Safeguarding Leads and Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads, this session will provide a detailed overview of CPOMS.
Designed and delivered by outstanding Geography leaders, this is a subject specific training course for secondary teachers of Geography.
This CPD is aimed at all Maths staff really - anyone from ECTs to experienced staff who require Higher subject knowledge.
The aims of the course are to better understand the roles and responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), and to provide information and source documentation for the legislative and good practice requirements for safeguarding children.
This course is fully regulated, and comes fully certificated with a 3-year expiry date. It fully meets HSE guidelines, and is issued by an Ofqual recognised awarding body. This is a 1-day course, lasting 6 hours in total plus breaks.
Join us for the Stand Out for Primary English Conference, aimed at primary leaders and their wider teams on Wednesday 22nd May from 9.00am until 4.00pm at the Outwood Institute of Education.
These sessions are aimed primarily at new to the role leaders but all are welcome to attend and refresh their understanding. The sessions will give you an overview of the challenges and joys of leading a unique subject and leave you with the tools and confidence to go forward and develop the provision in your academy.
Welcome to Geography Matters 2023/24
This course is designed for those working with young people aged 11-16 years. It provides information and strategies to develop the communication skills of all young people but especially those with speech, language and communication needs.
This CPD is aimed at all management and staff who are responsible for supporting pupils with medical conditions who need medication administered.
This meeting provides time for reflection and creativity, with ideas generated from Trust-wide collaboration, followed by fine-tuning within regions.
Designed and delivered by outstanding Maths leaders, whose favourite place is in the classroom, this programme increases participants’ confidence and skills to ensure all their students have a brilliant experience in their lessons. It allows participants to prepare to have a great lesson every lesson!
Designed and delivered by outstanding History Leaders, this is a subject specific training course for secondary teachers of history. The programme is appropriate for secondary history teachers at all career stages but would be particularly useful for Early Career Teachers and those teachers who wish to familiarise themselves with some of the latest approaches and strategies being used in the history classroom.
To receive your full blue card registration as a competent Pivotal MAPA (managing actual and potential aggression) trained member of staff you will have to undertake two separate stages of training:
To receive your full blue card registration as a competent Safety Intervention Instructor trained member of staff you will have to undertake two separate stages of training:
There are three of HoDs Mathematics conferences over the academic year. Each conference contains Standards Board, including Headline data, analysis and actions PS Reports Curriculum Intent Curriculum Implementation Professional Development.
This course is regulated and a certificate is issued with a 3-year expiry date. It fully meets HSE guidelines and is issued by an Ofqual recognised awarding body. This is a 3-day course, lasting 18 hours plus breaks.
The safer recruitment workshop builds on those reports and recommendations. It aims to:
Give participants an awareness and understanding of offender behaviour.
Identify the key features of staff recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people.
Consider policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse or ensure its prompt reporting.
Help participants begin to review their own and their organisation’s policies and practices with a view to making them ‘safer’
The safer recruitment workshop builds on those reports and recommendations. It aims to:
Give participants an awareness and understanding of offender behaviour.
Identify the key features of staff recruitment that help deter or prevent the appointment of unsuitable people.
Consider policies and practices that minimise opportunities for abuse or ensure its prompt reporting.
Help participants begin to review their own and their organisation’s policies and practices with a view to making them ‘safer’
Aimed at in-post Heads of Maths departments in the Southern region, these meetings will provide the time and opportunity for HODs to come together to discuss and disseminate key messages, to share best practice, to ensure effective standardisation of data and to think creatively about teaching and learning.
Heads of Maths across the region to meet with Directors and each other ahead of standardisation and input to ensure consistency and QA.
Sessions to share updates and developments with HODs, along with a focus on the provision of RS in academies this year.
This session will review the curriculum and consult on any changes moving forward. We will also look at the changes to the MFL GCSE and hope to provide an update on training for that. This is our annual event for HoDs networking and development in MFL.
This online CPD gives staff an in depth understanding of the meaning, signs and associated stigma of poor mental health, and how to support.
An opportunity for SENDCO's to network and collaboratively share good practice. This session will be agenda driven and is invite only. We will have guest speakers/ CPD focus in the morning and time to collaborate in the afternoon.
A CPD day for SENDCo's to develop resources, good practice guides to embed training undertaken. This day will focus on developing SLCN resources following the completion of ELKLAN.
Join us for the Stand Out for A Primary Curriculum That Stands Out Conference, aimed at primary leaders and their wider teams on Tuesday 16th July from 9.00am until 4.00pm at the Outwood Institute of Education.
This CPD will be split into three sessions:
Session 1: NEA - planning, guidance and marking
Session 2: Planning - Long term, medium term and short term
Session 3: Assessment, marking and feedback
This CPD is aimed at Primary and Secondary colleagues who are administrators of Edukey and who complete SEND reviews/Provisions/One Page Profiles only.
This session allows Geography colleagues from each academy to be familiarised with the materials and plan and prepare the materials for students to be delivered. This is worth 15% of the overall marks on Paper 3.
Join us for the "Stand out in SEND Conference: A focus on best practice, current challenges and developing a whole school relational model."
It will take place on Tuesday 19th March 9am-3:30pm at the Outwood Institute of Education.
Who should attend?
SENCO’s, Learning Managers, Senior Leaders, Pastoral Staff, Class Teachers and any other Professionals passionate about SEND or looking to further their understanding.
There will be three strands of CPD within this programme aimed at the following groups of staff
Heads of Department
Teachers of MFL
Masters of MFL (more experienced teachers with a proven track record)
This course is for seconds in the department or anyone who currently holds a responsibility and is seeking to understand the role of Head of Science.
This session will cover all the fantastic reporting features of our oCloud Consequences system making it a great CPD opportunity for colleagues who are new to leadership.
Science teaching requires students to not only have the knowledge to enable them to develop curiosity about the natural world, but also have an insight into working scientifically.
This session will be delivered by Humanities and SEND Directors, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge of teaching SEND students. You will gain a greater insight into the main types of SEND you may encounter, develop an understanding of how you can support speech and language in your classroom and gain practical tips on teaching mixed ability groups.
Science teaching requires students to not only have the knowledge to enable them to develop curiosity about the natural world, but also have an insight into working scientifically.
Designed and delivered by Julie Slater, this unique programme is aimed at current and aspiring female leaders.
This course is fully regulated, and comes fully certificated with a 3-year expiry date. It fully meets HSE guidelines, and is issued by an Ofqual recognised awarding body. This is a 1-day course, lasting 6 hours in total plus breaks.
This session will provide new and existing governors with an overview of the legalities in relation to exclusions with a particular focus on permanent exclusions and over 15 days of exclusions in a term.
A set of sessions designed for non-specialist teachers of Religious Studies and Personal Development who want to improve their subject knowledge and confidence.
This second meeting of the year for Heads of English will give colleagues opportunities to share good practice, look at the preparations for the summer examinations, learn more about reading in our primary schools and explore how our KS3 curriculum can build on the successful strategies in place there and share details of successful reviews and/or inspections.
Outwood Grange Academies Trust has partnered with the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education to offer staff a full day of in-person CPD workshops. During this CPD, colleagues will deepen their subject knowledge and understanding and receive training in how to use bespoke research-informed classroom materials.
Join us for the Stand Out for EYFS Conference, aimed at primary leaders and their wider teams on Friday 19th January from 9.00am until 4.00pm at the Outwood Institute of Education.
This programme would be suitable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of the KS4 Biology and Chemistry Curriculum
This CPD session is the annual opportunity to complete standardisation training for the upcoming mocks for years 10 and 11.
This course is regulated and a certificate is issued with a 3-year expiry date. It fully meets HSE guidelines and is issued by an Ofqual recognised awarding body. This is a 3-day course, lasting 18 hours plus breaks.
This face to face CPD gives staff an in depth understanding of the meaning, signs and associated stigma of poor mental health, and how to support.
This conference will be an opportunity to look at fundamentals across biology, chemistry and physics datalogging and biotechnology skills, STEM club support, sharing ideas and learning how opening up a network with technicians across this trust.
This training basically covers how to get the best from our interview process so that the candidate has the best possible experience and so that we can share best practice to ensure that we ask relevant and pertinent questions that give us the right information to make the best judgement on suitability.
This course is regulated and a certificate is issued with a 3-year expiry date. It fully meets HSE guidelines and is issued by an Ofqual recognised awarding body. This is a 3-day course, lasting 18 hours plus breaks.
As an ECT (Y1 or Y2), there is so much to take on board with the ultimate aim of delivering high quality lessons. The course will help to scaffold the way in which the science curriculum is delivered across KS3 to KS4 with the associated literacy terms.
Suspensions and Permanent Exclusion from maintained schools, Academies and pupil referral units in England: A guide for those with legal responsibilities in relation to exclusion.
This course is for those who have not attended this training before, so are new to this area.
Exclusion Procedures for Clerks to the Academy Council at OGAT – for new clerks who have not attended this training before.
This training session is for Deep Experience SLT who lead on curriculum planning at each secondary OGAT academy. The training is aimed at facilitating this role, and will include general aspects of curriculum leadership, as well as more specific training in how to deliver on the OGAT curriculum timeline for 2024-25. The training will enable Deep Experience leads to maintain the 2023-24 timetable and curriculum, and develop the 2024-25 timetable and curriculum, in an efficient and effective way.
This would be suitable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of the KS5 Biology, KS5 Chemistry or KS5 Physics. The CPD is provided by STEM Learning and Enthuse Partnership to ensure there is a clear understanding of how to deliver content of the AQA specification with confidence.
This would be suitable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of the KS5 Biology, KS5 Chemistry or KS5 Physics.
