Emerging Middle Leaders 2021-22

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This programme comprises six twilight sessions run throughout the school year. There is a celebration event for all ‘graduates’ at the end of the year.

You will be required to attend the following face to face twilight sessions which run from 4.00pm to 5.30pm.

Session 1 Wednesday 20th October 2021
at St Albans Girls’ School		 Management or leadership?
Understanding leadership styles		 Julia Pipes
Session 2 Monday, 29th November 2021
at Sandringham School		 Leading effective meetings and managing people Mark Allday
Session 3 Tuesday, 18th January 2022
at Chessbrook ESC		 Supporting students with SEND using Pupil Profile data Andy Mirkovic and Jess King
Session 4 Wednesday 9th February 2022
at Sir John Lawes School		 Future pathways.
Job applications and interview technique.		 Gweirydd Williams
Session 5 Monday 14th March 2022
at Beaumont School		 Application of data Jonathan Mountstevens
Session 6 Wednesday 11th May 2022
at St Albans Girls’ School		 Coaching and unlocking potential
Celebration Event		 Tessa Miles

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at those aspiring to middle leadership and who wish to develop leadership qualities.

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

Areas of focus

The final programme will be made available at the start of the course, however areas of focus will include:

  • Management or leadership? Understanding leadership styles
  • Leading successful change: Effective team management
  • The nuts and bolts: Action planning for change
  • Future pathways. Job applications and interview technique
  • Numbers! Target setting and whole school finance
  • Emotional intelligence, managing yourself and others

Meet the facilitators:

Facilitators on this course come from across our lead partner schools.

What did others think?

“I have learned so many new techniques that I am already trying out in order to improve my own leadership skills.”

“The middle leader course allowed me to reflect on what type of leader I want to be and start to identify my own strengths and weaknesses in leadership style.”

 

So you want to be a Deputy Headteacher? 2021-22

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This is a twilight session with a focus on self reflection, aspects of the role of a Deputy Headteacher and preparing for interview.

This twilight course will take place from 4:00pm – 5:30pm at Sir John Lawes School on the following date:

  • Wednesday, 19th January 2022

Who is this course for?

This session is ideal for established Assistant Headteachers considering their next steps in leadership.

What are the objectives or outcomes?

In this twilight participants will:

  • Understand the role and responsibilities of a Deputy Headteacher
  • Receive practical, ‘tried and tested’ interview strategies
  • Discuss applications for senior leadership positions

Meet the facilitator

Phil Newbery – Head of School, Sir John Lawes School

Phil has been a Head of School at Sir John Lawes for a year now and previously has held the position of deputy head in two separate and contrasting schools.  He relished the different challenges that deputy headship brought and has learnt many valuable lessons along the way.
Phil has experienced two OFSTED inspections, two HMI visits and has taken part in two application and interview processes, fortunately being successful in both.
He has been part of a leadership team that lead a school from ‘Special Measures’ to ‘Good’ and now works in an ‘Outstanding’ School. He believes that this gives him a variety of experience to be able to pass some of this knowledge on.

NQT+1 Secondary Education Recovery Programme 2021-22

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This programme is a valuable way of supporting the NQT +1 colleagues in your school through the use of some of your Education Recovering funding. This programme has been designed in response to the challenging two years that this cohort of teachers have experienced in terms of training and NQT experience.

These sessions are designed to offer invaluable support to NQT+1 and allow them to explore how they can embed strong teaching and learning practices within their classroom, consider where their career path may go and also how they can use academic research to continue their understanding of pedagogy and how it can impact their professional development.

The twilights will take place from 4pm to 5.30pm and will be delivered either virtually or face to face in accordance with COVID guidelines at the time.  Details will be sent before each session.

Who is this course for?

Recently qualified teachers (NQT+1s).

The course is aimed at those who have successfully completed their NQT induction and are now working within schools, but without the mentoring framework so valued by NQTs.

Attendance to all of the following 8 sessions is ideal however we understand that committing to all 8 may be prohibitive.  Please contact laura.lusardi@albantsh.co.uk if you wish to discuss a more flexible package.

Tuesday
28th September 2021		 Session 1: Developing independent learners Tessa Miles
Wednesday,
20th October 2021		 Session 2: Embedding classroom practice Ben Garcia
Thursday
11th November  2021		 Session 3: Differentiation Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND
Monday
17th January 2022		 Session 4: Retrieval practice Beth Fraser and Caroline Michel
Tuesday
22nd February 2022		 Session 5: Career directions Athena Pitsillis
Tuesday
22nd March 2022		 Session 6: Communication for students with complex needs Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND
Thursday
21st April 2022		 Session 7: Whole school literacy and numeracy Melissa Hall and Tom Way
Wednesday
15th June 2022		 Session 8: Using educational research to support professional development Karen Roskilly, Research School

Meet the Facilitators

Session 1: Tessa Miles, Assistant Director of Teaching School: Professional Learning at Sandringham School

Session 2: Ben Garcia, Assistant Headteacher, Sir John Lawes School

Session 3: Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND – Live Zoom session

Session 4: Beth Fraser and Caroline Michel, Sir John Lawes School

Session 5: Athena Pitsillis, Assistant Headteacher, Sandringham School

Session 6: Matt McArthur, Whole School SEND – Live Zoom session

Session 7: Melissa Hall, St Albans Girls’ School & Tom Way, Harlington Upper School, Bedford

Session 8: Karen Roskilly, Sandringham Research School

ECT Subject Specific Enhancement ENGLISH 2021-22

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We are keen to ensure that all Early Career teachers have the opportunity to develop networks of subject specific enhancement to supplement their work on the Early Career Framework.  This training is open to all ECTs regardless of their ECF provider; we aim to be able to provide strong subject specific networks across our region.

The subject specific enhancement sessions for English will take place as face to face meetings as shown below:

  • SESSION 1: Tuesday, 9th November 2021 – Sandringham School
  • SESSION 2: Monday, 14th March 2022 – Sir John Lawes School
  • SESSION 3: Tuesday, 7th June 2022 – Sandringham School

Who is this course for?

Early Career Teachers

Meet the facilitators

Session 1 and 3: Athena Pitsillis, Assistant Headteacher, Sandringham School

Athena has worked at Sandringham as an Assistant Headteacher since September 2018. She is responsible for a number of areas including data and assessment; exams; parental engagement and parent teacher conference evenings; interventions and catch-up funding; high starters and equality and diversity. She is an SLE in CPD and, for the last year, has lead the English faculty for a maternity cover.

 

Session 2: Ben Garcia – Assistant Headteacher, Sir John Lawes School

Ben has been teaching English since 2002, firstly in London schools and then, since 2007, at Sir John Lawes School in Harpenden. He was Head of English at Sir John Lawes before becoming an Assistant Headteacher in 2014. Since then, he has been a Specialist Leader in Education for English and has had responsibility for areas such as teaching and learning and exams, at Sir John Lawes and across the Scholars’ Education Trust. Ben has also been a facilitator and assessor for teacher development courses such as the HertsCam ELDP and the Chartered Teacher Programme.

 

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