This new programme where we consider the implications of AI on examinations and coursework as well as its potential to reduce working to enhance teaching and learning as well as administration support to reduce workload.

The course focuses on:

• Sharing knowledge and best practices regarding the use of AI tools in the classroom.
• Collaboratively developing AI-related policies to guide our schools across the borough.
• Staying updated on the rapidly evolving landscape of educational AI.

This course will be online and led by a representative at Bentley Wood.

This five-part twilight programme examines strategies for ensuring our students achieve their best and remember more for longer. We will look at what evidence from cognitive psychology tells us.

Topics examined include:

• Planning our curriculum effectively and ambitiously
• ‘Thinking hard’ and strategies for challenge
• Memory, retrieval, and memory hacks
• Dual coding, cognitive load theory, and spaced practice
• Metacognition
• AI and ‘pedtech’ tools to support pedagogy
• Enrichment and extension for the most able#

The programme takes place online, with one  session at Bentley Wood High School

This programme is aimed at senior and middle leaders, teachers and teaching assistants. Meeting the needs of students with SEND is everyone’s responsibility. This programme focuses on developing an inclusive school.

The implications of the Green Paper/SEND Review (2022) will be explored with practical strategies shared for planning and delivering the curriculum. There are 5 sessions across the year.

Developing Great Teaching consists of six half -termly sessions led by middle and senior leaders. The sessions focus on pedagogy and developing outstanding teaching using the latest evidence and research. The twilight programme builds on a collaborative approach with the learning developing over the year. Participants have the opportunity to work across schools in the HCA, often grouped into subject expertise.

Developing Great Teaching Sessions cover:

• Metacognition; note taking and note making
• Exploratory talk and questioning
• Grouping and Afl
• Preparation for Pair/Triad Learning Observations (LOs)
• Feedback from first LOs and preparation for 2nd
• How has my teaching developed this year? How can it develop further next year?

This programme takes place at Oak Wood School.

The programme aims to equip staff with the specialist knowledge and tricks that can be used inside and outside of the classroom to support both beginner and advanced EAL learners.

The course aims to cover:

• Introduction to EAL
• Supporting beginner EAL students
• Supporting advanced EAL students
• Supporting students through working with EAL parents

This programme consists of 5 twilight sessions and takes place at Bentley Wood High School.

This group will provide an opportunity for leaders to meet and share their Supracurricular provision. Working together to look at how we can further enhance our curriculum provision and extend our students and develop their curiosities The programme will comprise of 6 twilight sessions covering the following areas:

• Sharing ideas from our own schools
• Trips to enhance the curriculum
• Lectures and speakers to enhance the curriculum – online and in person
• STEM
• Arts
• Summer holiday plans

Through the group we will also explore how schools can ensure those with SEND and those vulnerable attend and are accessing opportunities.

The course will be held at Harrow School

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope,’ Kofi Annan, United Nations General Secretary 1997-2006. If literacy is often the greatest barrier to social mobility, what can we do in schools to dismantle that barrier? How can we engage parents, especially those who don’t read English confidently themselves in our work to improve literacy? How can we work collaboratively with our Inclusion and EAL teams to improve students’ literacy and develop our own practice? How can we ensure that teachers of all subjects understand their role in raising students’ literacy skills?

This is a new programme aimed at teaching staff: both experienced and newer colleagues of any subject area including teachers who have a whole school literacy role. Each half-term session will take place in-person at Nower Hill High School from 4.15 – 5.30 and will be led by both middle and senior leaders. Exact dates will be confirmed by the end of September.

The sessions will cover the following areas:

1. Closing the Vocabulary Gap
2. Closing the Reading Gap; is it different for boys?
3. Meeting and Managing the Shift in Reading Challenge between Primary and Secondary
4. Supporting Students’ Writing
5. Creating a Whole School Reading Culture: challenges and opportunities around new technologies
6. Making Best Use of Finances and Resourcing including the School Library.