Get help buying for schools is a free and impartial service, delivered directly by the Department for Education (DfE) to help you with buying goods and services for your school.
There is a wide range of goods and services available through DfE approved frameworks, everything from furniture to ICT and catering to MFDs. The DfE has approved each of the frameworks for use by schools based on the quality of service and the value they provide measured against the three C’s: cost, compliance, and convenience.
Aimed at Schools-Business Professionals and hosted by DfE’s Schools Commercial team, this session will:
See how interactive human stories provide a powerful and captivating way to experience diversity and nurture the vital skills and values children will need to thrive in our changing world.
The session will cover:
In October 2021 Da Vinci Academy in Derby were rated ‘Good’ overall and in all areas of Ofsted for the first time since inspections began in 1993.
Headteacher, Katie Roberts, reflects on what she calls their “improvement adventure”, including:
A conversation with headteachers about workload and the new toolkit, including an opportunity to take questions from the audience.
An opportunity to find out more about the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter – why focus on wellbeing and how your organisation can implement the charter.
The National Network of Special Schools (NNOSS) is a network whose members understand and can help with the unique challenges faced within special schools.
Established in 2020 by Schools North East and supported by the Department for Education (DfE), NNOSS is open to all school business professionals (SBPs) working in special schools, alternative provision (AP), and hospital schools in England’s maintained, free and independent schools and academies. It provides support, information, and continuing professional development for its members, enabling a collective voice to tackle the key strategic challenges faced by special schools.
Aimed at CEOs, headteachers and SBPs this session will cover:
Come along to this session hosted by the Schools Commercial Team and find out more about the services and guidance available to help those responsible for buying goods and services in schools.
Get first hand details of the support available now, including details of the new Get help buying for schools service to help you get the best possible value of your school.
An opportunity to find out more about the work of the SRM digital Standards team.
The National Tutoring Programme provides subsidised, high-quality tuition to pupils across England who have lost learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is an easy to access, cost-effective programme aiming to reach pupils through one-to-one and small-group, 15-hour tuition courses. Join members of our team for our session in the DfE Village, to find out more about the offer to schools.
Come along and join in the discussion on how the DfE’s Schools Water Strategy can work with and support your school to save money and support climate change actions.
What we will cover in this session:
• Schools Water Strategy – have you heard of us? Join us and we will give you an overview of who we are and what we are doing.
• How our strategy is working with partners to help schools, we will tell you about the five projects currently happening
• Find out how you can get involved in the strategy and the benefits it will deliver for your school
13:10 – 13:12 | Intro
13:12 – 13:27 | Solution 1: St Michael’s Church of England High School – 21st Century Child uses innovative approaches to raise awareness of the issues that affect young people. They strongly believe in success through partnership and work closely with a range of professionals and local organisations to consult, agree the vision and create accessible content.
13:27 – 13:42 | Solution 2: Orley Farm School – How the practical application of positive psychology into positive education can give your pupils and staff the happiness advantage to accomplish more in their academic and professional lives.
13:42 – 13:57 | Solution 3: John Ray Junior School – The Impact of Circle Solutions on school wellbeing and how we interleaved it into our curriculum to develop social and emotional learning, build positive relationships and enhance pupil resilience.
How do we empower all learners today and prepare them for a rapidly changing world? A driving force behind this change is technology. It affects the way we live, the way the world works, and the kind of skills people need to thrive. Technology also presents unique opportunities for learning. Join Apple as we share four principles that drive the future of learning and what we’re doing to further them
In this session, DfE will talk though how educators can best use Educate Against Hate, a DfE website filled with resources and guidance to help teachers and school leaders safeguard students from radicalisation, build resilience to all types of extremism and promote shared values.
This panel discussion brings together MAT leaders as they discuss the disruption to learning over the last two years and the role of MATs in addressing ‘catch up’ instead of individual schools. The discussion also introduces the unique insight of Renaissance, who contributed their Star Assessment data to the DfE’s ‘Understanding Progress in the 2020/21 Academic Year’ research. The discussion also focuses on the role of standardised assessment alignment within MATs to ensure ‘catch up’ learning is achieved.
Find out how the NCCE, a DfE funded programme, provides teachers with a comprehensive range of evidence-informed, high-quality support, including free resources and training courses – mostly free of charge or supported by bursaries – to help them become inspirational computing teachers
Hear from the DfE sector cyber security team about the ways your systems can be hacked and how to mitigate the risk to your school.
A quick intro to the DfE’s School Resource Management offer, a collection of free tools and guidance available to all schools. Find out more and access all of the full SRM offer
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The Department for Education is improving risk management across the school sector by introducing cyber cover into the Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA) product from April 2022.
Aimed at Schools Business Professionals and hosted by Georgia Shepherd, RPA Cyber Lead and Suleyman Salih, Head of Account Management at CyberClan, this session will:
Did you know according to a Waterwise study, an average of up to 3,100 litres of water can be saved per day, per school? Or that one leaking toilet can waste between 200-400 litres of water per day?
Over £120 million a year is spent on water across our school estate and the best way to reduce this spend is to look at water usage in our schools. Our water strategy aims to support school estate to improve resilience to the water related climate challenges it already faces and those it will face in the future, whilst also saving money on non-staff spend, enabling schools to reinvest that money to improve the school experience for pupils.
Aimed at Schools Business Professionals and hosted by DfE’s Water Strategy Team, this session will introduce the school’s water strategy and in particular, the support the team can provide to your school including:
In this session, DfE will talk though how educators can best use Educate Against Hate, a DfE website filled with resources and guidance to help teachers and school leaders safeguard students from radicalisation, build resilience to all types of extremism and promote shared values.