Network | Maths Teachers 2024-25

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This network is a chance for teachers and ECTs of Mathematics to meet to discuss current issues in secondary phase mathematics education, to form good cross-school relationships and share best practice.

The network will consist of three face to face sessions which will run from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School on the following dates:

  • Session 1: Wednesday, 20th November 2024
  • Session 2: Spring term tbc
  • Session 3: Summer term tbc

This programme is £30 in advance or £10 per session when joining part way through the year.

Who is this course for?

Teachers of Mathematics, ECTs (Mathematics)

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:

  • Confidently plan well sequenced lessons
  • Design and deliver purposeful questions, supporting the needs of all students
  • Discuss setting, mixed attainment and the mastery approach to teaching Mathematics
  • Support teachers new to teaching KS4 or KS5
  • Share best practice

Areas of focus:

The course will include:

  • Mathematics planning and delivery
  • Cognitive overload and knowledge retention
  • Supporting all students to become successful mathematicians
  • Difficulties faced by Maths teachers

Meet the facilitators:

Sarah Pope, Head of Maths and Computing, Simon Balle All-through School

MTPT Parental Leave drop-in session

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Network | Art Teachers and Leaders 2024-25

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Join our fun, creative and informal Art Network. We aim to create a supportive and creative community where art teachers can connect, share ideas and collaborate with one another. Offering opportunities for ongoing professional development through practical workshops, webinars and guest speakers and sharing our resources.

Face to face twilight sessions will be held termly from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School. The network will be charged at £30 in advance for the year or £10 per session when joining part way through.

  • Session 1: Monday, 7th October 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned Art teacher or just starting out, our network meeting is the perfect place to ignite your creativity, gain valuable insights, and find inspiration for your classroom.

The meeting focus will be sharing ideas of how we can raise the profile of Art in our schools. Discover fresh ideas and innovative approaches to engage your students and foster a love for Art.

Guest artist Daisy Smith will lead a collage based workshop and sharing her creative approach to collage which can be used at both primary and secondary level.

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  • Session 2: Monday, 3rd February 2025
  • Session 3: Monday, 30th June 2025

Session content will be made available each term

Who is this course for?

  • Primary and secondary art teachers from ECT to HODs.

Meet the facilitator

Sarah Gidden, Sandringham School

Sarah is a fine artist specialising in oil painting and photography. Sarah has taught art to all ages from infants to University of the third age. With over 20 year teaching experience she is passionate about art and education. After becoming a mum to twins in 2011 Sarah enjoyed a career break to raise her family and develop her art skills further. She has exhibited in many galleries including The Collective Gallery , The Nude Tin Can and St Albans Museum as well as Courtyard Arts in Ware and The Broadway in Letchworth.

 

Liz Kelly, Director of Learning (Visual Arts and Arts Coordinator), Sandringham School

Becoming an Effective Learning Supervisor 2024-25

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Alban Education are running our successful Becoming an Effective Learning Supervisor session again during the Autumn term now on Tuesday, 26th November 2024 (moved from 15 Oct) from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School.

The session will focus on:

  • What does the role entail?
  • How you can make a difference.
  • Behaviour and Class management tips
  • Feeling part of the school community

 

Who is this course for?

New & existing Cover / Learning Supervisors to the role.

 

Meet the Facilitators

Lily Pratt – Lead Learning Supervisor, Sandringham School

Lily is the lead learning supervisor at Sandringham school and has held this post for 5 years.

She believes cover supervisors play a vital role in guaranteeing that learning takes place in the absence of the class teacher by creating a continuity that ensures the lesson has meaning and allows for student progression.

Nurturing valuable talent 2024-25

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Nurturing valuable talent: supportive practices to boost workforce retention beyond the first five years

In the midst of our ongoing recruitment and retention crisis, we know that we need to do all we can to fill vacancies with quality practitioners, and hold on to valuable staff.  But more often than not, our focus falls onto recruiting new trainees into the profession, and retaining them beyond the first 3-5 years.  With recruitment targets missed again and again, it’s a system that doesn’t seem to be working.  So what are we missing?
Join Emma Sheppard, founder of The MTPT Project, the UK’s charity for parent-teachers, to understand how concentrating our efforts on a different group of teachers – women aged 30-39 – will have a greater impact not just on teacher retention, but on recruitment, quality of teaching and learning and the overall health of our workforce.
She’ll share little-known statistics about this mid-career demographic, the largest group to leave teaching every year, as well as what we can do to support them to remain in the profession.  You’ll finish the session with an improved understanding of Schools Workforce Census data, strategies that you can implement immediately, and a vision for a longer term plan for retention, equality and wellbeing.

This session will be held on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024 from 1.30pm to 3.30pm at Sandringham School.

Speaker

Emma Sheppard
Founder of The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project

 

The MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher Project
The UK’s charity for parent-teachers.
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete CPD on parental leave.

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

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Middle Leadership Ready! 2024-25

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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, 19th November 2024 Management or leadership? Understanding leadership styles
Session 2 Monday, 27th January 2025 Leading effective meetings and managing people
Session 3 Tuesday, 11th March 2025 Application of data (including tracking SEND data)
Session 4 Monday, 19th May 2025 Coaching and unlocking potential

Meet the facilitators

Primary Lead

Emma Simmons, Executive Headteacher, Crabtree Infants’ and Crabtree Junior Schools

Emma is Executive Head of Crabtree Infants’ and Crabtree Junior School in Harpenden. She has previously worked as Head of Junior School and Head of Girls’ Games in a small Prep School and has been a class teacher in a variety of schools, teaching children in Reception to Year 6. Emma supports local school’s ECTs as part of the AlbanTSH Appropriate Body and is a facilitator for the NPQSL.

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 | MFL Teachers 2024-25

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This network is a chance for teachers of MFL to meet to discuss current issues in secondary phase languages education, to form good cross-school relationships and share best practice.

The network will consist of three face to face sessions which will run from 4pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School on the following dates:

  • Session 1: Monday, 30th September 2024
  • Session 2: Monday, 17th March 2025
  • Session 3: Monday, 12th May 2025

This programme is £30 in advance or £10 per session when joining part way through the year.

Who is this for?

Heads and Seconds in Languages Departments, Teachers of MFL

What are the objectives or outcomes?

On this programme participants will:

  • Discuss changes to the MFL curriculum.
  • Discuss the challenges facing teachers of MFL.
  • Share best practice.

Areas of focus

The course will include:

  • Facilitated sessions.
  • Reflection and review.
  • Planning next steps.

Meet the facilitator

David Williams, Sandringham School

New to Being a Form Tutor 2024-25

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Alban Education is delighted to be offering New to Being a Form Tutor for new and existing Form Tutors during Autumn 2024.  This session will look at ideas for constructive tutor time and will include strategies which can be implemented to get the best from your form group.

Amy Stothard and Rich Davis will co-deliver this session from 4.00pm to 5.30pm at Sandringham School on the following date:

  • Monday, 14th October 2024

Who is this course for?

This course is for ECTs and teachers who are new to a pastoral role.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

This course will support you in:

  • Giving an overview of the importance of the pastoral system with regards to academic achievement and solidifying the home-school partnership.
  • Discussing new ideas for forming good working relationships with parents and students.
  • Assisting students in starting each day in the best way possible.

Meet the facilitator

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.

 

Richard Davis, Performance Director: Year 8 and Teacher of Mathematics

Rich is currently a Performance Director (Head of Year) at Sandringham with over 15 years of experience in a range of Pastoral roles in the school. He is currently working with his 4th cohort of students as Head of Year and has also been an Assistant Headteacher leading on behaviour and pastoral care for 2 years. Rich has worked with a number of tutor groups and is keen to take any opportunity to share his belief that it is one of the most important, and yet sometimes over looked, roles in a school.

 

What did others think?

“The course provided me with a great basis for approaching the important role of the form tutor.  It was valuable to network with other NQTs who were using a range of strategies with the tutees.  The course facilitators were honest, professional and personable which made discussing often hard to handle situations that may arise in a pastoral remit, easy.  I have just recently been appointed as a head of year 7 and intend to use some of the strategies with my own tutor team in the near future.”

Workshop 1 (Behaviours for Learning Programme) | Behaviour Basics 2024-25

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Alban Education are delighted to be launching a series of four workshops to examine ‘Behaviours for Learning,’ during the Autumn term as follows:

Workshop 1: Behaviour Basics (face to face) – 16th October, 4-5pm at Sandringham School

Workshop 2: Understanding Behaviours (face to face) – 6th November, 4-5pm at Beaumont School

Workshop 3: Beyond the classroom (webinar) – 13th November, 4-5pm Online webinar

Workshop 4: Complex Behaviour (face to face) – 27th November, 4-5pm at Sandringham School

 

This booking page is for Workshop 1: Behaviour Basics (follow the relevant links above to book on any of the other workshops)

  • Wednesday 16th October 2024, 4-5pm at Sandringham School

This will be charged at £25 per session.

Who is this course for?

ECTs (where they may be gaps in their skill sets or concerns) but also experienced practitioners who would like a refresh.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

  • How can we maximise student success and achievement?
  • How do we teach behaviour?

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 the face to face events and Elena and her colleague have been extremely helpful and supportive. They have 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 instructors who really pushed us to extended our ideas and really promoted reflection.

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

Thank you so much to Elena and her colleague! It’s been so useful learning from such experienced professionals!

Lots of great ideas shared and passionately delivered.

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

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