Network | Early Years 2025-26

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Join our Early Years Network for all teachers in nursery and reception run by Alban Education in collaboration with Acorns Early Years Training Centre.  An excellent opportunity to learn from experienced leaders, to share knowledge and discuss common challenges.

Face to face twilight sessions will be held termly from 4pm to 5.30pm at Ludwick Nursery School on the following dates:

  • Thursday, 13th November 2025
  • Thursday 12th February 2026
  • Thursday 25th June 2026

This network is £30 in advance for all three sessions or delegates joining part way through the year will be charged at £10 per session.

Who is this course for?

All teachers in nursery and reception classes

What are the objectives or outcomes?

This network will be for anyone within EYFS and PVI settings. It will be an opportunity to share best practice, network with colleagues and keep up to date with latest research, policy and practice.

Meet the facilitators

Helen Ackerman, Headteacher Ludwick Nursery School and Director Acorns Early Years Training Centre

Lucy Parker, Deputy Headteacher Ludwick Nursery School and Director Acorns Early Years Training Centre

Network | History Teachers 2025-26

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Alban Education are delighted to launch a History Teachers Network for the academic year of 2025-26.

Face to face twilight sessions will be held termly from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School on the following dates:

  • Thursday 6th November 2025

The first session will be looking at the topic of ‘considering controversial history’ and the use of sensitive language in the classroom.

  • Thursday 26th February 2026
  • Thursday 4th June 2026

This network is £30 for all three sessions or delegates joining part way through the year will be charged at £10 per session.

Who is this course for?

All history teachers – any experience welcome

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:
  • Discuss opportunities and challenges linked to all key stages of the history curriculum (KS1-5)
  • Reflect on the impact of curriculum reform since 2019 and the progress made with regards to representation in the history curriculum
  • Consider the use of oracy in the history classroom
  • Share best practice amongst delegates

Areas of focus:

The course will include:

  • Facilitated discussion
  • Developing pedagogy
  • Ideas for collaboration
  • Reflection and review

Meet the facilitator:

Ruth Davies is currently Assistant Director of Learning of History at Sandringham School and has 20 years of teaching experience across a range of secondary schools in Leeds, Hertfordshire and North London. She has previously been both Head of History and Head of Humanities and has worked across schools to ensure history departments collaborate and support each other with curriculum development. As an experienced Edexcel examiner and participant in Parallel Histories, Ruth is committed to ensuring CPD offers the opportunity for informative collaboration and ideas on practical classroom implementation.

Network | Sixth Form Leaders 2025-26

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Alban Education are delighted to continue the Sixth Form Leaders Network for the academic year of 2025-26.

Face to face twilight sessions will be held termly from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sir John Lawes School on the following dates:

  • Wednesday 26th November 2025
  • Tuesday 10th March 2026
  • Thursday 11th June 2026

This network is £30 for all three sessions or delegates joining part way through the year will be charged at £10 per session.

Who is this course for?

Sixth Form Leaders

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • To share best practice to support post 16 students
  • To discuss changes to the post 16 educational landscape
  • To discuss common challenges that face sixth form

Areas of focus:

The course will include:

  • Changes to the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework and its implications for post 16 education
  • Changes to the academic landscape
  • Careers Education/UCAS
  • Pastoral care
  • Independent learning

Meet the facilitator:

Sara Calverley, Sir John Lawes School

Middle Leadership Ready! 2025-26

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Alban Education are delighted to run this four session programme providing essential skills for outstanding middle leadership.  This will be cross-phase with specific primary and secondary facilitators every session allowing delegates to benefit from tailored training specific to their individual setting.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

This programme will support you in:

  • Reflecting on your personal strengths
  • Developing skills of leadership
  • Exploring your own vision and values
  • Drawing together theory and practice
  • Sustaining effective leadership

Who is this course for?

  • For colleagues new to middle leadership roles
  • For colleagues moving to middle leadership roles
  • For aspirational middle leaders

Twilight sessions will take place at Sandringham School from 4.00pm to 5.30pm on the following dates:

Session 1 Tuesday, 18th November 2025 Management or leadership? Understanding leadership styles
Session 2 Monday, 26th January 2026 Leading effective meetings and managing people
Session 3 Tuesday, 10th March 2026 Application of data (including tracking SEND data)
Session 4 Monday, 18th May 2026 Coaching and unlocking potential

A minimum of 75% attendance is required in order to receive certification on this programme.

Meet the facilitators

Primary Lead | Leanne Bridges

With 14 years experience, Leanne is a dedicated primary school teacher specialising in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.  She currently works across both primary and secondary education settings and holds qualified SENCO accreditation.  Leanne also has a strong background in leading Music and Physical Education within the primary setting.  She is passionate about integrating the arts into her teaching to enhance engagement and learning outcomes.

Secondary Lead | Amy Stothard, Director of Learning, Music, Sandringham School

Amy Stothard is an experienced form tutor and is currently the Head of Music at Sandringham School. She has been working in education for 13 years and has worked with tutor groups and students with a wide range of needs. She is passionate about the impact that form tutors have on the day to day experience of students, their wellbeing as well as on their longer-term outcomes.

 

 

Network | Secondary Literacy 2025-26

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Alban Education are delighted to be running our successful Literacy Network for Secondary Phase which will promote most recent research, resources and approaches for Literacy within the current Ofsted framework.

Booking in advance will secure one place on all three sessions for your school however a different staff member may attend each session if the focus is more relevant for them.

Your booking is for all three sessions in advance.  Delegates may join part way through the year and will be charged on a pro-rata basis.

Face to face sessions will be held at Sandringham School termly as follows:

  • Wednesday, 5th November 2025 – 09:30-11:00
  • Friday, 6th March 2026 – 09:30-11:00
  • Tuesday, 12th May 2026 – 09:30-11:00

Sessions will focus on:

Empowering Literacy Leadership: Designed to build subject leadership expertise in literacy through evidence-informed input, practical tools, and peer collaboration.

Current and Relevant Content: Each session explores national priorities (e.g. Reading Framework, Ofsted focus, English Hubs) and timely topics such as oracy, disciplinary literacy, transition, and AI in education.

Collaborative and Reflective Structure: Sessions include input, case studies, group planning, and peer sharing—creating space to reflect on and plan for impact in your setting.

Who is this course for?

Suitable for any secondary school leaders, teachers, teaching assistants, librarians who have any responsibility for literacy across the curriculum.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • To offer practical ways in which schools can successfully adapt their current provision of literacy, to maximise impact
  • To examine the key literacy demands within the current Ofsted framework
  • To share the most recent research and resources to support literacy provision in schools
  • To provide a networking opportunity for schools to collaborate and share best practice

Meet the facilitator

Annabel Brown

Annabel Brown is a former EEF Research School Director and current NPQ Facilitator at Alban Teaching School Hub, with extensive experience in supporting schools to embed evidence-informed practice. As a Senior English Advisor and experienced English teacher, she brings a wealth of expertise in curriculum design, coaching, and professional development, all grounded in her ongoing classroom practice. Through her leadership of the Literacy Network, Annabel draws on her background in whole-school improvement, disciplinary literacy, and reading fluency to support literacy leaders and teachers in developing strategic, research-informed approaches that make a real impact.

Behaviour | Complex Behaviour 2025-26

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We are delighted to offer this session entitled Complex Behaviour facilitated by Elena Dundjerovic which will run on the following date:

  • Monday, 24th November, 4-5pm

Who is this course for?

SENCOs, classroom based staff including teaching assistants.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • How can we identify influences and predictors of complex behaviour and respond to them?

Meet the facilitator

Elena Dundjerovic

Elena has over 20 years’ experience of teaching PE, IT and Economics and Business in secondary schools and has a wide range of experience in school leadership including Head of Year 7-9, Assistant Head of 6th Form and Assistant Headteacher. Prior to this, Elena worked in the health and fitness industry as a personal trainer and marketing manager.
Elena has a strong passion for developing and inspiring others and leads the CPD programme at her current school. She is also a Therapeutic Thinking tutor and facilitator for the NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture. She is highly experienced in working alongside others and supporting them to identify and address issues in their own settings.
Elena is well known for her dedication, professionalism and enthusiasm in developing others to be the very best they can be. Due to her experience in both pastoral and curriculum, she is well placed to provide detailed and balanced advice to accelerate student welfare and outcomes.

Testimonials

I have personally gained a lot from this session and Elena has been extremely helpful and supportive. She has challenged my thinking and grown my self confidence and self awareness in my own ability and strengths. I have acquired skills that will help me grow within my progression and the expertise that Elena has shared with me will support my next steps in the field of development.

This was a fantastic event with a facilitator who really pushed us to extend our ideas and really promoted reflection.

Elena was great, very passionate and informative. Gave me lots of food for thought.

Thank you so much Elena! It’s been so useful learning from such an experienced professional!

Lots of great ideas shared and passionately delivered.

Elena was inspiring. Excellent clarity of purpose and approach to pastoral care given by her.

Behaviour | Understanding Behaviours 2025-26

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We are delighted to offer this session entitled Understanding Behaviours facilitated by Elena Dundjerovic which will run on the following date:

  • Monday, 10th November 2025, 4-5pm

Who is this course for?

Classroom based staff including teaching assistants, support staff.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • What tools can we use to unpick behaviours in the classroom and how can we respond to these?

Meet the facilitator

Elena Dundjerovic

Elena has over 20 years’ experience of teaching PE, IT and Economics and Business in secondary schools and has a wide range of experience in school leadership including Head of Year 7-9, Assistant Head of 6th Form and Assistant Headteacher. Prior to this, Elena worked in the health and fitness industry as a personal trainer and marketing manager.
Elena has a strong passion for developing and inspiring others and leads the CPD programme at her current school. She is also a Therapeutic Thinking tutor and facilitator for the NPQ Leading Behaviour and Culture. She is highly experienced in working alongside others and supporting them to identify and address issues in their own settings.
Elena is well known for her dedication, professionalism and enthusiasm in developing others to be the very best they can be. Due to her experience in both pastoral and curriculum, she is well placed to provide detailed and balanced advice to accelerate student welfare and outcomes.

Testimonials

I have personally gained a lot from this session and Elena has been extremely helpful and supportive. She has challenged my thinking and grown my self confidence and self awareness in my own ability and strengths. I have acquired skills that will help me grow within my progression and the expertise that Elena has shared with me will support my next steps in the field of development.

This was a fantastic event with a facilitator who really pushed us to extend our ideas and really promoted reflection.

Elena was great, very passionate and informative. Gave me lots of food for thought.

Enjoyed the session – Elena was very engaging and clear. Learnt some strategies to help understand behaviour and to take into account background and homelife when thinking about certain behaviours. I am looking forward to the next session.

Lots of great ideas shared and passionately delivered.

Elena was inspiring. Excellent clarity of purpose and approach to pastoral care given by her.

MTPT Parental Leave Group Coaching Cohorts 2024-25

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Colleagues in the South East currently on a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave can enjoy a fully-funded place on the autumn cohorts of The MTPT Project’s group coaching programme.

This three-month programme takes place online in small groups of 8-20 participants, and explores themes of change, identity, confidence and plans for the future.

It can be easy to feel isolated or drifting on your parental leave, particularly if you are used to the bustle and pace of school and the classroom.

The MTPT Project’s Parental Leave Group Coaching programme brings you together with other colleagues on leave to share experiences, motivate yourself with personalised goals, and celebrate as you grow and flourish with your new baby.

In three 60 minute Zoom sessions, we’ll focus on key themes relevant to The MTPT Project community:

  • Transition and Identity: who am I now?
  • Limiting Beliefs: what’s holding me back?
  • Empowering Visions: where do I want to go?

DATES FOR SUMMER “Coffee” Cohort

  • Tuesday 13th May, 09:30-10:30
  • Tuesday 10th June, 09:30-10:30
  • Tuesday 8th July, 09:30-10:30

DATES FOR SUMMER “Naptime” Cohort

  • Friday 20th June, 13:30-14:30
  • Friday 18th July, 13:30-14:30
  • Friday 14th August, 13:30-14:30
BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

Fully-funded for all state school teachers in Hertfordshire thanks to Alban & Chiltern TSH

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk
@mtptproject #MTPTproject
www.facebook.com/MTPTproject
Join us as a member!

MTPT Return to Work Workshops 2024-25

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Colleagues returning from a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave this term can enjoy a fully-funded place on The MTPT Project’s Return to Work workshops. This 90 minute virtual workshop will inform you of your legal entitlements and the best practice you can expect from your school, as well as a powerful space to set boundaries and get your emotional and logistical ducks in a row before you go back.

BOOK DIRECT ON EVENTBRITE HERE

 

DATES FOR 2024-25

Summer

Monday 12th May 2025, 09:30-11:00

Thursday 13th June 2025, 09:30-11:00

Tuesday 15th July 2025, 09:30-11:00

Fully-funded for all state school teachers in Hertfordshire thanks to Alban & Chiltern TSH

 

Case Study

As part of a regional Teaching School Hub partnership in the South East, Alban Teaching School Hub are proud to be supporting The MTPT Project’s Return to Work Workshops throughout the academic year 2024-25.

This 90 minute interactive webinar offers colleagues in the South East the opportunity to prepare logistically and emotionally for a confident return to work following a period of maternity, adoption or shared parental leave.

Ensuring the programme is fully-funded for state school colleagues is just one of the ways that Alban Teaching School Hub is addressing recommendations in the recent Missing Mothers report by The New Britain Project and The MTPT Project, which found that only 38% of mother-teachers surveyed were satisfied with the maternity leave and transition support provided by their school.

Fleur Baikie, a secondary middle leader in Hertfordshire attended a Return to Work workshop in February 2025.  Fleur said she enjoyed, “having some time to really think about returning to work without interruption and with the support of Emma (the facilitator) and the other parents at the workshop.”  She loved the “concrete examples” shared and says the workshop has increased her confidence about returning to work.

Find out more about The MTPT Project’s fully-funded Return to Work workshops, including upcoming dates and other regional Teaching School Hub sponsors on Eventbrite.

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

Book in a call with me: www.calendly.com/emmasheppard

www.mtpt.org.uk
@mtptproject #MTPTproject
www.facebook.com/MTPTproject
Join us as a member!

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