THE AGENDA
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In his keynote speech, Hamid Patel CBE will discuss the leadership lessons drawn from building Star Academies to become one of the country’s foremost academy trusts. Judged MAT of the Year at the inaugural Schools and Academies Awards in 2019, Star embodies ethical principles and unflinching attention to detail.
Hamid will consider the underpinning values, qualities and leadership habits that are preconditions of success. Covid 19 has been hugely disruptive but it has also challenged the sector’s thinking and illuminated the capacity of strong trusts as civic leaders. In the aftermath of the pandemic, successful recovery demands resilience, relentlessness and re-discovery of the characteristics of effective leaders.
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Visitors, Speakers and Suppliers can join one of three themed speed networking rooms for a chance to meet and greet other attendees, putting faces to names and making valuable sector contacts.
We encourage all visitors to select one of the below three themed rooms and once the sessions start there will be a welcome address before being split into dedicated breakout rooms for periods of 3 – 5 minutes for informal introductions and to share challenges and best practice.
Visitors are then free to continue the conversation with any of their new connections later in the day.
- Leadership & Governance
- Business & Finance
- Safeguarding & Wellbeing
- Outlining the increasing range of emerging online trends, themes and patterns of behaviour
- Considering how the context of a young person’s offline life and vulnerabilities can accelerate pathways to real harm in the virtual world
- Examining the potential to use technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to educate, empower and protect entire school communities
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- A review of the challenges faced by schools in the past six months: is the “new normal” here to stay?
- Combatting extra expenses and balancing the budget: How can schools recover?
- Drive for change and positive leadership: Can these difficult times show us the way to new opportunities, and lead to improvement?
- Looking at the relationship between Government and the sector: What improvements can be made?
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During this networking break, visitors will have the chance to join a highly topical networking room themed around online safeguarding. Hosted by Rachel O’Connell, Founder, TrustElevate; with over 25 years’ experience within child safeguarding, visitors will have the chance to review their School’s safeguarding practices, share concerns over the rapid increase in the use of education technology and the dangers that come with it and hear best practice from peers and suppliers.
The aim of joining this networking session is to facilitate an open conversation about the solutions available to the many challenges faced by school staff handling sensitive data and how to best protect that data.
During this networking break, visitors will have a chance to join a themed, interactive networking room where you will have the chance to discuss digitally up-skilling school staff and will be hosted by Aspire2Be.
By attending this session, you will have the opportunity to hear about the best solutions available to school leaders and learn from other visitors and suppliers about what has been done in other organisations whilst sharing challenges faced and solutions to those challenges.
This dedicated networking room will provide visitors with the chance to discuss the specifics around primary school curriculum and how individual schools can implement catch-up strategies to ensure the pandemic and school closures do not have long term effects on pupils.
Hosted by Cornerstones, we encourage all primary school visitors to join this meeting room, meet like-minded peers and connect with other visitors.
Using the DfE’s Good Estates Management for Schools documentation, we will discuss how you can identify and manage routine maintenance and how you can use your condition survey data in building a maintenance programme to avoid large, urgent and costly interventions
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- Has the strain of the pandemic damaged the relationship between Government and Schools?
- Should political consultative processes be more open, and involve a wider array of stakeholders?
- Considering the renewed focus on ‘locality’, what arguments are there for more a more regional approach to education policy
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- Defining diagnostic assessment as combining pedagogical knowledge with assessment data to better understand student misconceptions and needs
- Recognising assessment as an intrinsic part of teaching and learning
- Exploring how assessment data can provide much more than a score and how we can enhance subject-specific pedagogies as well as pupil achievement by close scrutiny of pupil responses
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There is a great deal of discussion around the world of attainment disparities between children from differing socio-economic backgrounds and those that have additional learning needs. Phonak is pleased to facilitate Dr Brian Shannan in a round-table discussion on how some of these disparities could be addressed by using a unique ‘Roger’ adaptive sound system.
Dr Shannan will share some key findings from his recent PhD study; ‘The Impact of Dynamic Soundfield on Delivering Improvements in Educational Attainment and Closing the Attainment Gap with Young Learners in Mainstream Primary School’.
Dr Shannan’s study was longitudinal and involved 495 primary learners in 25 research classrooms from 13 schools.
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- Establishing 3 pillars of activity to effectively embrace anti-racism as both practice and a culture in your school:
- Identifying gaps and opportunities in the curriculum to help students seem themselves and others in their learning
- Teaching staff to be racially literate through the exploration of narratives and the development of a fuller understanding of Identity, race and intersectionality
- Seeing the bigger picture of diversity by looking beyond the classroom to question practices from recruitment and training to governance and culture
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- Barriers and enablers for building a just and effective teacher-assessed grading system
- Boosting student and parent confidence and recovering trust from a generation caught in the crossfire of the pandemic
- Evaluating the long-term impacts on assessments and the move towards a post-qualification admissions policy, is now the right time?
- How can we use assessment data to help ease the pressure on one-off examinations?
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- Understanding the importance of safeguarding threat scanning
- Exploring the legacy of adverse coronavirus experiences in education
- Adapting safeguarding policy in light of COVID-19
- Implementing risk mitigation strategies
- Communicating safeguarding risk trends when identified
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- What do you look for when you are recruiting a DSL and what are the potential hidden potholes when recruiting such an important strategic role?
- How the state of DSL training in the UK and the lack of adequate guidance creates unhelpful tensions for safeguarding in schools
- The widening role of the DSL and what differing approaches to resourcing these responsibilities between schools is telling us
- What benefits and adverse effects does the responsibility of DSLs to constantly challenge decisions have on the Safeguarding ability of schools
As the average size of MATs grow year on year, there is increasing appetite for small and emerging MATs to avoid some of the common strategic growth mistakes made by older MATs, e.g. growing too fast; not having effective finance and other systems in place in time; Execs and Non-Execs not on the same page; ineffective governance; ineffective procurement processes etc…
During this session we’ll share best practice and lessons learned from a variety of different MATs from the past 15 years. Effectively, we want to mitigate the growing pains of a MAT and assist with the growth of a healthy MAT.
- Identify shared challenges and learn the common pitfalls your peers have experienced on their pathway to growth
- Build a comprehensive growth strategy and map where you fall short across 4 stages of growth: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing
- Leave with resources, access to tools, evidenced learning and a network of best practice seekers to help you on your journey
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- Building on 96 individual studies to guide both schools and providers on ‘what works’ in tutoring and learning enrichment
- Updating schools on the latest evidence based tutoring models and the power they can have on the learning outcomes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Building a golden square of Student, Teacher, Parent and Tutor communication to boost attainment, safeguarding and behaviour
- What continued delivery and feedback is teaching us about the effectiveness of group tuition and how are schools evaluating who can benefit from group settings?
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- How a framework is constructed and what it can and cannot deliver
- How to maximise supplier interest in your opportunity
- What makes a good invitation to tender
- To find out how easy frameworks can be to use and everything else you need to know
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In early 2020, as schools and universities all over the world scrambled to make the switch to online learning environments, Earle Abrahamson was already well-versed in using digital feedback tools having synthesised all he knew about feedback.
During this session, Earle will discuss:
- how to enhance the feedback process and develop feedforward mechanisms to optimise students’ learning and academic development,
- best practices developed in higher education, but applicable to both the secondary and higher education environments.
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- What is the advice for Schools’ engagement with parents: How can co-production be strengthened?
- A national vision for SEND spanning inclusive mainstream school provision and specialist schools
- Is there a cohesive plan for climbing out of the back-log and effectively handling future surges for demand for education, health and care plans?
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- Funding and Practice: The tussle between extra funding and improvements to practice in improving children’s outcomes
- Numbers and Nuance: What is the data telling us but also what does the data omit in not considering co-factors in disadvantage
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The importance of creative Arts within curriculum is not a new discovery, but the positive impact that it brings to student’s wellbeing, development and behaviour is worth noting. At Canon, we’re dedicated to helping the generation of tomorrow, to harness the power of visual storytelling to drive positive change. By working with students to better understand and articulate key challenges such poverty, inequality and climate change, we empower students with the confidence to imagine the solution.
Our Young People’s Programme has worked with over 4,500 participants to date, and across 18 countries to deliver these benefits to young people across the world. Join our session to find out how we’ve been working with schools and universities to inspire and empower students through creative experiences and key partnerships.
Session sponsored by Canon
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Standards of education in England have transformed over the last two decades. Accountability arrangements have played their part in this change, however, are now acting as a brake on further improvement. To move from good to great, our Commission believe that we need to re-balance holding schools to account with helping them to improve. This talk will:
- Explore the findings of the recent NAHT School Improvement Commission: on creating the conditions in schools in which teachers can thrive so that pupils can succeed
- Reflect on the important implications of this work on national planning for educational recovery
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Before you buy, we invite you to join this DfE led roundtable where we will guide you through the benefits of our approved Everything ICT framework and how it can meet your specific needs.
With many different options, buying the right ICT for an expanding academy/school or upgrading an existing system can be complicated, you want to make the right choice for your specific requirements.
• Come and listen to a School Business Professional talk about their experience and share useful hints and tips with you.
• A representative from Everything ICT will outline the benefits of the approved framework and how it will help you easily navigate the complex choices in developing your ICT strategies.
• Take the opportunity to get questions answered directly from experts and practitioners.
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We’ve all heard the message of ‘hands, face and space’ and these are important aspects in infection control combated by hand washing, masks and social distancing. But what about the air we breathe? Scientists worldwide are pointing to the airborne risk of contamination of COVID-19 and this urgently needs addressing to enable pupils and staff to spend time in indoor settings more safely. Join phs Group as they discuss the challenges, opportunities and potential solutions that COVID-19 has brought up over the past 12 months.
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- Constructing spaces where people come together to make things, build, hack, remix, take-apart, and rebuild.
- Highlighting learning through exploration, collaboration, problem-solving, and being creative and innovative
- Understanding how space contributes to student well-being, academic success and improved behaviour
- Defining a single space for 4 different types of learning: Structured, Controlled, Guided and Free Enquiry
- The importance of virtual and physical learning and how the lessons of the pandemic translate into space making for learning
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- What are your strategic incentives for centralization and are they known across your MAT?
- Conducting a review of your Organisation’s Perspective: Who can support you on the journey towards centralisation
- Looking beyond the argument for economies of scale and focusing on the true benefit of enabling leadership
- Where on the Scale of Centralization should my MAT sit and who do I look towards for benchmarks?
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• Reduce your administrative burden and streamline your processes
• Improve efficiencies and accuracy for payroll processing
• Ensure you are always in line with compliance and data protection legislation.
Join MHR and Coventry Schools Trust to find out how they improved their processes, reduced payroll errors and saved time and money
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Join this roundtable to share your experiences and ideas surrounding MAT growth. Led by two experts in the field, who deal with and support those looking to grow their MATs, as well as those from Single Academy Trusts looking to join a MAT, this session will also include two short case studies. Leave this discussion with a better idea of the issues faced by your peers with MAT growth as well as evidence based practice on:
- The planning an measuring success through the key stages of MAT Growth
- Different auditing options – internal and external audits, and how this relates to growing your MAT
- Common hurdles and persistent challenges for MATS from streamlining policies and KPIs to VAT, economies of scale and additional funding/budgeting
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- Power of collaboration; bringing together DfE children’s services and education teams, Ofsted, academy trusts, local authorities and ADCS
- Joining up front-line intelligence, policy development, and delivery at pace
- Benefits of REACT
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- This session will demonstrate the DfE financial benchmarking service, including a new and improved service for special schools, to help you benchmark against other schools, similar to your own.
- We will also cover the free tools available for integrated curriculum and financial planning, including information on free resources to guide you through doing ICFP for the first time.
- Although the session is pre-recorded, Dan and Steph will be online to answer any questions or queries you have around school resource management.
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- Revealing the extent of incursions across the UK’s education sector and how cases such as the Harris Federation Hack are the Tip of the iceberg
- Identifying common targets and speaking plainly about the damage it can do to your school and how you can easily avoid this
- Demonstrating RansomCare in action and how it stops specific Ransomware encryption techniques
Session Sponsored by Avoira
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- Have some systems, group sizes and structures fared better and is this truly owing to the way schools are organized or are other variables at play?
- How do we define ‘successful resilience’ both in retrospect to and beyond the pandemic and what does this mean for future school structures?
- How might different structures be more or less resilient when considering different responsibilities such as curriculum, safeguarding, wellbeing and SEND provision?
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View my financial insights (VMFI) is an online tool which helps schools view and improve their financial performance. It enables local authorities and trusts to see all their schools in one place with an automated assessment of the greatest areas for improved resource management.
Join this session for:
- An overview of how the VMFI tool works
- A run through of the latest updates
- An open question and answer session
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- Promoting the ever increasing Importance of Practical Science within your curriculum
- Best practice for getting Schools T-Level ready through state-of-the-art science provision.
- Dramatically increasing the type and number of lab experiments to help students access practical lab skills
- Unlocking the potential of your students through simple tools and operations such as chromatography instrumentation
Session sponsored by Shimadzu
- Catch-Up through meaningful curriculum development: Enabling teachers to develop their curriculum plans with autonomy and with a diagnostic understanding of their students’ learning and next steps
- One school: The growth of community and trust and how these relationships are the beginning of happier and more empowered workforce
- Championing co-production and prioritizing honesty over conformity
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- How have SBLs dealt with extra requirements from access and sanitisation to investment in technology and extra staff?
- How has the role of the SBL changed in supporting leadership to deal with covid pressures?
- Remote working management: Digital upskilling has taken the world for a spin but how have SBLs fared and what does this mean for future working?
- Urgent vs Strategic: How SBLs have balanced long term development with critical crisis management?
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- Why is important to have a DSG management plan in place?
- How to complete the template.
- Benchmarking against other local authorities and national position.
- Using the template as a working document, and sharing with stakeholders.
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- Almost half of English schools have no BAME teachers and statistics on LGBT+ staff diversity is non-existent, how can we buck this trend?
- Reversing the impact of the absence of diversity within leadership on retention rates for BAME and LGBT+ Staff
- Uncovering and combatting the challenges of diversity within the School Business leader community with only 4% BAME representation
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- Why do so many school improvement initiatives fizzle out within days, weeks or months?
- Have you ever wondered about alternatives to top-down implementation?
- Are you interested in learning about an approach to school improvement that harnesses the energy of stakeholders throughout the organisation, leading to sustained, positive change?
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- What is meant by financial oversight in practice? – where do governors and trustees’ responsibilities begin and end?
- How to turn theory into practice that makes a difference: creating terms of reference that everyone understands, demystifying the language we use, e.g. ‘adopt, approve, ratify’
- Management accounts / monitoring reports – these are important sources of information and opportunities for discussion; governing boards need to make sure they’re in a format that works for them
- How do governing boards ensure the whole board knows enough about the school’s resources to make meaningful decisions?
- Do governing boards think their headteacher or CEO has the expertise they need?
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- What funding is currently available and what can be done to prevent the worst?
- The legacy of coronavirus on schools’ budgets and what long term solutions should the sector implement
- Continuing to tackle the original funding issues and ensuring they are not forgotten amidst new challenges
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We have selected a handful of key topics from the show and will be hosting dedicated networking rooms around each of these topics.
The aim of each room is to encourage networking and engagement with attendees, share concerns, ideas and best-practice and connect with each other on the platform.
Attendees of each of these themed sessions will have a 5-minute introduction to the session and then be split into smaller groups which are rotated every 5-minutes to encourage interaction.
Themes include:
- Back-Office School Management
- Funding
- School Food
- Staff Training & UpSkilling
- Income Innovation
- Procurement Efficiencies
- And more…
Buying energy is often very complicated and difficult to understand if you have made the right decision for your school. Joined by partners from across the energy sector, this DfE led session will:
- Help you understand more about what is available, such as energy efficient measures including smart metering
- Know how to manage future demand for energy
- Take advantage of the services and support, including DfE approved energy frameworks to get value for money.
- Be an opportunity to ask the experts questions that will help you make informed decisions for your school.
- The Impact of Covid- 19 on Local & National SEND pressures including the SEND funding crisis
- Pre-Covid SEND Landscape: issues,pressures & the growing SEND funding crisis
- The Covid Journey March 2020 to March 2021- Operational activity informing strategic planning
- Post Covid SEND Landsape April 2021 & Beyond: Focus on well-being & recovery
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- Has the shift in focus to remote learning and parent complaints been a helpful driver for school improvements?
- What have been your situational, local and demographic barriers during the pandemic and how will Ofsted take these into account?
- Defining the ‘right level of challenge’ in Ofsted’s commitment to work with leaders through supportive inspections
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Session Sponsored by IRIS
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- Boosting the NFF by 3% to significantly with a minimum per pupil payment of £4,000 to primary and £5,150 to secondary
- Giving schools an additional £180 (primary) £265 (secondary) per pupil through the NFF to simplify teacher pay and pension grant schemes
- Increasing additional funding for small and remote schools up to £45,000 compared with £26,000 for 2020-2021
- Are these increases, forecasts and pre-covid policies still relevant to the situation of schools?
- With supplementary catch-up, workforce and exceptional cost funding, how does this muddy the water for evaluating the state of funding in the UK?
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Energy bills are a significant part of your school budget, tracking and understanding your energy consumption is often very complicated and difficult to understand.
How can your school reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and include this change of behaviour as part of the curriculum to inform future generations?
A panel of experts including DfE, CCS, BEIS and partners from the energy sector will:
• help you understand more about what is available, such as energy efficient measures including smart metering
• know how to manage future demand for energy and reduce your carbon footprint
• take advantage of the services and support, including DfE approved energy frameworks to get value for money.
• be an opportunity to ask a panel of experts questions that will help you make informed decisions for your school.
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- How have school systems globally combatted disjointed learning, learning loss and student isolation?
- What programmes and initiatives are being undertaken to address the impact on wellbeing both of students and staff?
- How have different regions and nations addressed the funding challenges
- What policies and strategies are different countries pursuing to ensure assessments and exams are still able to take place?
- Recovery or rediscovery? Has the pandemic given way to discussions and movement for education reform globally?
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- With the impact of Coronavirus magnifying inequality, how are schools tackling longstanding and cumulative disadvantage?
- 2020 showed little progression in working towards a more economically diverse blend of pupils, how can schools buck this trend?
- Widening pay scales for schools adds added pressure for individual institutions to retain staff, how can schools support eachother with staffing and talent sharing?
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A lot has changed since March last year, not least the way schools use digital technologies.
COVID-19 may have set us back, but it also opened the doors to these new digital processes. Schools have all leaned on software over the past few months; now it’s time to put that practice to good use during normal service.
Join us for an insightful discussion of technology’s role in both the classroom and the office. We’ll cover:
- How modern reporting can be leveraged to show gaps in provision
- How to maximise the value of your government catch-up premium
- Software that can form the core of an digital education reformation.
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- How an award-winning revision timetable app, driven by teacher expertise, is already helping 250,000 happier, more organised, and more motivated students across thousands of schools around the world
- Empowering students to RAG-rate their entire curriculum and automatically build them a personalised revision timetable which is constantly updating with their changing confidence
- Releasing Adapt for Schools with a data-rich Leadership Dashboard highlighting which subjects, year groups and classes need the most support, and a smart Teacher Planner which separates curricula into lesson topics, adds rich data about learners’ needs, and maps them out across an academic year instantly
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- The power of data: Understanding your skills gaps should be data driven but do you have the data or the analytical processes?
- What does recruitment look like in the pandemic and what skillsets are more important for the new-normal?
- How can the benefits of virtual recruitment and onboarding be carried into the post-pandemic age?
- How do your immediate needs sync up with your long-term vision and strategic workforce plan?
- Is your organisation’s ‘brand’ where it needs to be, and how might this be affecting your proficiency in attracting and retaining the right talent?
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More than ever, the site team needs to reassure stakeholders that they are safe and compliant. How do you demonstrate compliance? Many people use software, but it is much more than a reporting and document storage tool – Estates Management software is the toolkit to manage your estate.
Join Adam Watson, Director at Every to discuss:
- what a best-practice implementation of Estates Management software looks like
- things to consider when selecting a solution
- how to get to the point where reports are available at the press of a button
- top tips to make the implementation process smoother
- the importance of culture and maximising adopting of a solution to get the most benefits
We’ll be joined by Jonathan Coates, Director of Business & Finance at Tanfield school as he outlines how he delivers good estates management.
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- Are we heading towards a crisis and what does the sector and data tell us about the state of wellbeing within the schools’ sector at large?
- What tools and techniques are proving most effective in combatting fatigue and anxiety?
- What are we doing as a nation to support mental health and wellbeing?
- How to maintain the importance of wellbeing in your institution
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- Encouraging students to challenge themselves with new careers skills, aspire to a future vision of themselves and increase their network for future employability
- Building a virtual work experience programme to make the most of virtual engagement and expanding employer networks beyond the restriction of locality
- Communication is key: Encouraging parents by giving them toolkits to play a role in helping their children build and understand their choices
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- The scope of the problem: What are the current issues regarding staff and pupil wellbeing?
- Toolkits and resources for assessing the impact on wellbeing for both students and staff
- How a foundation of openness and a conscious recognition of language – not just of students, but beginning with the board and school staff – is a vital first step
- Real-life examples of good practice
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Last year the Department for Education launched an initiative to enable Academies to automate the population of trial balance data within their accounts returns directly from their finance management systems. The move was motivated by a desire to enable Academy Trusts and MATs to remove repetitive data entry and speed up submission time.
It’s a great idea, but also requires Trusts to organise their Chart of Accounts in preparation. Solutions for Accounting consultants discuss the pros and cons of automating returns and explain how Sage for Education is being modified to help Trusts take advantage.
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View my financial insights (VMFI) is an online tool which helps schools view and improve their financial performance. It enables local authorities and trusts to see all their schools in one place with an automated assessment of the greatest areas for improved resource management.
Join this session for:
- An overview of how the VMFI tool works
- A run through of the latest updates
- An open question and answer session
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- Engaging SBLs in SLT and board conversations to allow them to uncover areas of waste and opportunities for management innovation
- Getting business perspectives on your board: Practical steps for sourcing expertise
- Upskilling all staff on the basic skills to develop a culture of value-for-money without distracting from the primary focus on the student
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- What do we mean by learning and thus learning loss and are we limiting our definition and neglecting socialisation and character-development?
- How do the questions and answers to the situation of lost learning represent a national soul-searching exercise for education?
- Have some schools, cohorts or regions gained learning relative to the average and is the national approach to recovery flexible enough to cater for the needs of individual schools and trusts?
- What does a less homogenous image of learning loss represent in terms of systemic disadvantage?
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- Creating opportunities for staff to hear and reflect on lived experience
- Utilising the person-centred approach to harness pupil voice
- Creating an empathetic environment to enhance inclusion
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- Find out how CCS are working in partnership with suppliers and education providers to reduce the challenges traditionally faced by school when improvements or new builds are required
- Through integration and early engagement we can help schools use Modular building solutions to deliver projects faster, greener and with greater value for money
- Hear from great case studies, and receive hints and tips on how to deliver a successful project
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Sage for Education is the cloud hosted Finance Management System designed to support Schools, Academies and Trusts. The product is brought to market by Sage partner Solutions for Accounting, whose consultants are on hand today to provide you with an insight into the platform developed by the FTSE 100 leading technology firm.
The session will be of particular interest to delegates who have a Finance Management specialism and are unfamiliar with the Sage option, or considering investment in a replacement Finance Management System for their Academy or MAT. The discussion will have added significance for those who favour the agility, security and cost benefits that a Cloud hosted solution may offer, together with the automation of their Accounts Returns directly to the DfE.
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- What were our key challenges and how did we overcome them?
- The advantages we found through collaboratively working together
- What are our COVID-keeps?
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- Farnborough College of Technology, Computer Services Manager, Ben Travers talk about why he has recently deployed a direct routing solution with Avoira
- MS Teams telephony for Education
- How direct routing works
- Functionality and features
- Clearing and Direct Routing
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- What impact has Covid-19 had on teachers’ workload and personal well-being?
- How has the Covid-19 recession changed the teacher supply challenges?
- What are the implications for teacher recruitment and retention policy?
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Join Sian Hampton and her colleagues from Archway Learning Trust following her session “The Power of School-to-School Support through COVID-19 at Archway Learning Trust” to discuss the benefits and best practice of improved inter-school networks. Share your insights of building support networks and resource sharing structures between teams, schools and geographies.
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- How can school leaders and senior business professionals initiate income generation schemes and where does this fit within the wider financial strategies
- Whether through charitable grants, corporate sponsorship, capitalization of estates, skills and services each school has a series of options
- Re-building your foundation with parents as a core community of support for income regenerative activities
- Have your school’s income generation strategies been affected by the pandemic and how can we overcome those obstacles
- At a time income generation is needed most it has been affected – what can we do to raise additional income during the new normal?
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- Mapping the areas where children and young people with SEND will need support to build better awareness within your school setting
- Tapping into the free to access, DfE-funded resources and CPD webinars produced by nasen Whole School SEND to help you to offer this support
- Offering a roadmap at future funded packages of support that WSS will be making available to schools over the coming months, and how you can link up with your Regional SEND Leads
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• This session is aimed at anyone in the school sector (particularly school leaders and business professionals) to showcase the guidance and tools the department currently has on offer and talk about our upcoming plans/focuses.
• The session will explore recent products from the digital team and the capital team’s work on GEMS. (This is still TBC – we should have more info by our meeting tomorrow)
• The session will also include a walkthrough of the new-style SRM collection page which hosts links to all the school resource management products the department offers.
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- The importance to post-Covid recovery of ITT and recruiting teachers to whether they are needed most
- Anticipating the rollout of the Early Career Framework and it’s impact
- Priorities and actions for schools concerning fast-tracked NQTs during the pandemic
- What does teaching look like in a future of social distancing, blended learning and remote working?
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- What is Peer on Peer Abuse
- The voice of the child and young person
- The Farrer Report – 5 steps from identification to management and prevention
- Going forward and providing effective support
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- Making Attachment and Trauma Informed Practice (ATIP) the foundational practice through which you communicate and engage all students
- Developing INSET training sessions for colleagues and partners to fully embed ATIP
- Expanding learning and training to parents to increase the impact of practices beyond the school gates
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A short overview of changes to the schools national funding formula (NFF) for 2021-22, and proposed changes for 2022-23. This session will explain recent policy proposals regarding funding for small and remote schools, and the payment of schools’ business rates.
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In this interactive roundtable we invite school leaders, estates professionals and business professionals from across the education sector to get a better understanding of the necessary steps to decarbonise effectively! Get answers to questions on funding and guidance made available through the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), as well as how to rationalise your estate and consider environmental impacts more broadly. In this discussion we will answer your questions on:
- What are the right ways to go about decarbonising an estate; and how do you avoid approaches that waste time and money?
- How are schools avoiding the risks of operating in a relatively immature low-carbon/renewables sector?
- Best practice for replicating estate decarbonisation plans (EDPs) across schools within a trust, to generate more savings.
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- Continuous Teacher Improvement – from the Early Career Framework to the new NPQs
- How can effective CPD impact learner outcomes and improve rates of teacher recruitment & retention?
- How can we deliver coherent CPD through effective school-led partnerships?
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- Delivery of the cross-curricular Climate Curriculum in Primary, Secondary, FE and HE.
- Climate Literacy
- Carbon Literacy
- Conflict Literacy (Conflict Resolution and Emotional Intelligence)
- The Global Reset in Education towards Sustainability, Carbon Literacy, Transition & Transformation Subjects
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- Outlining the impact of Physical Education and physical activity on wellbeing, behaviour and capacity for learning
- Take-home tips for building a whole school culture of physical activity and embedding practices outside of the traditional constraints of PE
- What lessons have we learned from lockdown and how can we enshrine some of the learnings to improve the teaching of PE?
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- Championing your subject leaders: what mechanisms can be used to support and challenge subject leaders to develop/renew subject curriculum and drive subject-specific teacher development within their subject departments?
- Realising the potential of senior curriculum leadership for empowering subject leaders through attending to domain-specific expertise and sites of transformation for senior curriculum leaders and subject leaders
- Realising the power of subject communities for empowering subject leaders through attending to the professional and intellectual spaces for subject teacher agency and ‘loci of authority’ for curriculum development and evaluation
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The panel of safeguarding leaders and practitioners will be addressing the problem of sexual abuse and harassment in schools. Despite the wealth of previous reviews and national guidance on this subject it remains a major issue for many schools and recent events have highlighted the lack of confidence victims have in being able to report abuse when it happens.
The panel will explore:-
• The current context and the key drivers that lead to sexual abuse and harassment taking place within the school environment
• The challenges that school leadership faces in tackling abuse and why victims can be reluctant to report concerns
• The steps that schools can take in order to encourage reporting, create a safe environment and give more confidence to victims of abuse
• How to embed an effective safeguarding practice that focuses on prevention, early intervention and appropriate support to pupils
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If these are questions you have when buying goods and services for your school, come along to this
DfE and YPO session where we will help you to understand:
• How to navigate your procurement journey
• How DfE approved frameworks can help your school to meet the challenge of procuring goods and services
• What are the latest updates on support available to those responsible for buying
Take the opportunity to get questions answered directly from experts and practitioners.
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- High stakes and pressure on the profession: Are public results detrimental to school’s ability to hire and retain the right staff for their students?
- How the public nature of Ofsted reports working against the most disadvantaged by impacting staff ?
- What other models could we try? Exploring the approach in Scotland or drifting towards Canadian Local Improvement Partners
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- Designing a multi-utility building while balancing a combined ethos of sustainability, cost effectiveness and pace
- Reducing construction waste by over 15% and enabling speedier construction under Covid site safety restrictions by using structural insulate panels
- Leveraging the energy efficiency of the new-build to bring down energy costs for generations to come
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- Has the financial impact of the pandemic created a nation of unbalanced books or are schools finding their feet?
- With less than a third of the additional costs being covered by the government support funding, has there been a miscalculation of the sector’s cash reserves?
- To what extent are schools entering or extending a deficit balance and is this a ticking timebomb?
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View my financial insights (VMFI) is an online tool which helps schools view and improve their financial performance. It enables local authorities and trusts to see all their schools in one place with an automated assessment of the greatest areas for improved resource management.
Join this session for:
- An overview of how the VMFI tool works
- A run through of the latest updates
- An open question and answer session
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Two eventful years on from the National Governance Association’s assessment of multi academy trust governance, in March 2021, NGA released a follow up report examining what has changed in the time since. In this session, Sam Henson, Director of Policy for NGA, will provide an update – and affirmation – that trust governance is moving forwards in the right direction, while outlining the areas NGA has identified as still needing development.
This session explores key themes including:
- Adapting to context – what’s changed since 2019?
- The impact of the pandemic on MAT governance
- What MATs can learn from each other – two years on
- What’s next for MAT governance
- MATs moving forward – four ongoing debates
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- How Schools have become even more vital for child safeguarding with the closure of many face-to-face services
- How leaders can work with the appropriate partners to combat the low visibility of children during the pandemic
- How schools can share the cost of safeguarding procedures and the necessary training with local authorities and social services
- Early intervention with social services to mitigate the need for extra resources when safeguarding issues reach critical levels
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