This is a dedicated professional learning opportunity for all educational support staff (ESS), to reflect and develop their professional skills and to share their experiences with staff from other schools. There are six sessions at Park High School during the school day (1:15-3:15pm) from January to June/July. Please note cover will need to be arranged to support staff attending this day-time programme.

Topics include:

• Obstacles to efficiency
• Delegation and difficult conversations
• Management of change

This programme has been developed in consultation with staff and is led by educational support staff. There are six sessions at Park High School during the school day.

This programme aims to keep participants abreast of the most recent national developments. The programme equips you with the specialist knowledge that can be used in the classroom and consists of six twilight sessions throughout the year, delivered by visionary practitioners, expert in the  field of EAL.

This programme comprises of 5 twilight sessions, they are a mix of online and face to face at Bentley Wood High School.

Aimed at staff across all sectors, this 9 session twilight programme is very popular. Mindfulness is about directing our attention to focus on our experience in the present moment. It trains us to respond in a more skillful and more focused way to whatever is happening right now: good or bad. It enables more effective learning, clearer thinking and better performance. This programme is designed specifically for Educators.

This programme runs once a year across consecutive weeks at Bentley Wood. Staff are advised to ensure that they can attend all sessions to get the best out of the programme.

It explores:
Waking up to Autopilot. Participants are encouraged to notice how much of their lives are spent in autopilot and not really noticing. Bringing Curiosity to our Experience

Learning again how to be curious and look at things with beginners’ eyes.

Mindfulness in Daily Life. Making  mindfulness more active and seeing how we can use it in daily life to notice what is
good.

Stepping Back and Noticing Interpretations.

Coming to realise how we interpret things isn’t always a true reflection of the situation.

Exploring Difficulty: Building Resilience.

Mindfulness does not remove the difficult things from our lives but it can help us relate to them in a healthier way.

Relating to Others and Ourselves.

Assessing difficult communication and understanding our position in ways that can help us gain a greater perspective and therefore we can relate to others and ourselves more effectively.

Developing Balance in our Lives.

Understanding that we have to do things in our lives that we don’t necessarily enjoy or feel energised by, but looking at developing  a better attitude towards those things and creating a better balance with more energising things. Mindfulness and the Rest of Your Life? Recapping all of the learning from the course and supporting participants in figuring out how mindfulness might be a more permanent feature of daily life.

This is a session delivered by Clare Kissane, who has worked in the media and corporate world for the majority of her career. She has 15 years of coaching, facilitating and training clients to build their confidence and hone their presentation skills to help ensure they each stand out from the crowd. This one off workshop focuses on the presentation techniques for influence and persuasion. The course is for those who want to increase their presence and impact in a team environment or with students; those who want to me more assertive and confident in their day to day work.

The course is one twilight session of 3.5 hours at Hatch End High School

This is a course designed for Education Support Staff in the classroom such as Teaching, Learning and Support Assistants. The group will look at how we can best support students in the classroom with a range of learning needs.

This course will cover the following:

Session 1:

• An introduction to attachment theory and how this links to practice in school.
• Current educational policy relating to Looked After Children and other vulnerable groups.
• The support that is currently provided to Looked After Children and other vulnerable groups.
• The importance of inter-agency working.

Session 2:

• The importance of being proactive when working with Looked After Children and other vulnerable groups.
• Organising pastoral care in a manner that supports Looked After Children and other vulnerable groups.
• The form tutor role and why it is important.
• The importance of support for you as an individual.

Session 3:

• Developing an Attachment Support Plan for students in your school
• Creating safe spaces for vulnerable young people
• Planning a mini-CPD session to be delivered in your school

Session 4:

• Reviewing the implementation of the Attachment Support Plan
• Planning for the future: How can this course develop pastoral care in your school?

This course is 4 twilights at Pinner High School