Topic outline

  • Attendance Project - booking is now closed

    Three sessions intended to support leaders in ensuring that there is effective leadership for high attendance in schools, including develop their practice for individual children.

    • Session 1 Leadership and management, systems and data
    • Session 2 Ethos, culture, relationships, mental health and communication
    • Session 3 Effective interventions and action planning 

    Project Lead: Sian Smith and Simon Mitchell-Innes

    Venue: School based tbc

    Dates: 

    Session 1 - 22 October 9:00-12:00

    Session 2 - October 9:00-12:00

    Session 3 - 7 January 9:00-12:00

    Cost: 0.5 MP

    • HT Mentor Training - booking is now closed

      Consistent and effective support for headteachers new to their posts, provided by experienced headteachers who feel well supported by the LA and through a collaborative approach with other HT mentors.

      Project Leads: Sian Smith and Nicky Rickman

      Venue: School based - venue tbc

      Provisional Dates: 

      24 September 2024 09:15-12:15      

      14 October 2024 09:15-12:15     

      21 January 2025 09:15-12:15   

      Cost: 0.5 MP 

      • Leading more than One School - booking is now closed

        To support those considering moving into leading more than one school. This will be a mix of networking and support (through monthly online sessions) and half termly face to face sessions that will include an input of things likely to arise during a period of leading more than one school.

        Project Leads: Nicky Rickman and Julia Roberts

        Venue: School based - venue tbc

        Dates: Tbc

        Cost: 0.5 MP 

        Booking is now closed

        • Assessment Across the Wider Curriculum - booking is now closed

          Outline

          • This is a course to support the development of effective assessment within the Foundation subjects.

          Aims of the training are to:

          • develop assessment leaders, subject leaders and teachers understanding of how assessment underpins the curriculum
          • develop activities to support summative and formative assessment in the wider curriculum
          • develop how assessment is used to support retrieval practise and children developing their long term memory.

          The programme:

          • there will be initial sessions for the headteachers and assessment leaders to discuss principles of effective assessment and how these can be used practically to support assessment and its impact for Foundation subjects
          • these sessions will be followed up with a twilight session for all staff who lead a subject so the principles can be put into practise
          • will enable headteachers and assessment leaders to work on expectations of assessment initially so developments can be used in the staff twilight’s where subject leaders can put into practise developments for an upcoming unit of work
          • a final session will enable schools to share the impact of the developments made.

          Project Leads: Simon Mitchell-Innes and Emma Cooper

          Venue: Mixture of school based and virtual twilights

          Dates: 

          Session 1: 18 September 2024, 9:00-12:00, twilight 8 October

          Session 2: 23 January 2025, 13:15-16:00, twilight 12 February

          Session 3: 24 April 2025, 9:00-12:00, twilight 13 May

          Session 4: 12 June 2025, 9:00-12:00

          Cost: 0.5 MP 

          Booking is now closed

          • Y6 Data Project - booking is now closed

            The main aims of the project are to:

            • support schools with improving outcomes at the EOKS2 through the forensic use of data and the rapid identification of those children at risk of not ‘keeping up’ and not meeting the expected standard at the end of Year 6
            • support teachers with their understanding of the required standard by the EOKS2 so that they can best prepare children at each stage of their learning
            • provide opportunities for colleagues to network, identifying common areas of difficulty and misconception, and sharing good practice
            • identify and explore common areas of misconception within Year 6, identifying and filling gaps in English and mathematics
            • equip teachers with the tools they need to best identify areas of strength/concern across the school, eg making best use of Question Level Analysis data
            • explore a wide range of pedagogical approaches to meeting the needs of the more academically vulnerable children.

            The project is open to a limited number of schools, meaning that a more personalised, hands on and bespoke approach will be possible. There is no limit on the number of staff who can attend each session from any school signing up to the course.

            Project Leads: Ed Dawson, Simon Mitchell-Innes, Chris Cheal and Kate Spencer

            Venue: School based (please indicate if you are able to host training)

            Dates: 

            11 September 2024 (PM) 

            25 October 2024 (PM)

            29 November 2024 (PM) 

            17 January 2025 (PM)

            7 February 2025 (PM)

            14 March 2025 (PM)

            2 May 2025 (PM)

            16 July 2025 (PM)

            Cost: 2 days MP, spread across two financial years

            Booking is now closed

            • Building Confidence for SENCos in Improving Classroom Practice - booking is now closed

              The aim of this course is to empower SEND leaders to improve classroom practice, in turn leading to better student outcomes and the cultivation of a more inclusive and supportive school culture.  

              By participating in this course, SENCos will gain the knowledge, skills, and strategies needed to foster inclusive learning environments and improve classroom provision. 

              There will be numerous benefits across the school, including enhanced expertise in SEND provision, better collaboration between SENCos across Hampshire and improved expertise amongst teaching staff

              The training course is designed to address the specific needs and context of each educational setting, providing SENCos with practical tools and strategies that can be immediately applied to their practice. 

              5 Sessions:

              1.      Understanding your role and effective assessment

              2.      Promoting a child centred support

              3.      Evaluating expectations and provision

              4.      Effective observation and feedback 

              5.      Strategic support and strategic thinking – with headteachers.

              Project Leads: Simon Mitchell-Innes and Frances Akinde

              Venue: Tbc

              Dates: 

              7 January 2025

              28 January 2025

              12 March 2025

              20 May 2025

              1 July 2025

              Cost: Free

              Booking is now closed

              • Parent Engagement Project

                Improving pupil outcomes through improving parent participation.

                This collaborative project will explore the difficulties that schools face with engaging parents and the challenges that parents may face with engaging with schools.

                Intended for: Senior Leaders, Inclusion Leaders and Parent Support Advisors

                The main aims of the course are to:

                • provide opportunities for colleagues to network, identify common areas of difficulty and challenge, and share good practice across a range of themes
                • effective communication with parents – challenges and solutions – the quick wins
                • support schools with identifying barriers for parental engagement, including for specific groups of parents
                • dealing with difficult parents, when conversations turn into complaints, Input from Governor Services and the Hampshire communications team
                • an opportunity to explore and discuss case studies: what have schools done differently to successfully engage parents?

                Project Leads: Cherry Chope and Nicky Rickman

                Venue: Tbc

                Dates: 

                10 March 2025, 9:00-12:30

                29 April 2025, 9:00-12:30

                10 June 2025, 9:00-12:30

                Cost: 0.5 MP 

                To book your place, please complete the Building confidence for Parent Engagement Project: New Forest and Test Valley - booking form

                • Five Fundamentals of Effective Classroom Practice - booking is now closed

                  Practice Developing High-Quality Inclusive Teaching.

                  A series of 5 half-day training sessions for leaders of teaching and learning and headteachers.

                  1. Conditions for effective learning
                  2. Models of high quality inclusive practice
                  3. Principles of effective lesson design
                  4. Coaching and mentoring
                  5. Building capacity and sustaining improvement

                  Project Leads: Stuart Adlam, Sarah Sedgwick and Derek Myers

                  Venue: Tbc

                  Dates: 

                  18 September 2024, 13:00-16:00

                  16 October 2024, 13:00-16:00

                  13 November 2024, 13:00-16:00

                  15 January 2025, 13:00-16:00

                  5 March 2025, 13:00-16:00

                  Cost: 1 MP 

                  Booking is now closed

                  • Network - New Forest Deputy Headteacher - booking is now closed

                    • Develop deputy headteachers as leaders                  
                    • Provide deputy headteachers with the opportunity to network                      
                    • Increase the number of potential headteachers 

                     Areas for focus this year identified by the candidates:

                    • Effective assessment and its impact
                    • Understanding a school budget
                    • Knowledge of the new Ofsted framework and lessons learned
                    • Planning for and having difficult conversations.

                    Project Leads: Simon Mitchell-Innes 

                    Venue: Tbc

                    Dates: 

                    09 May 2024, 13:30-16:00

                    09 July 2024, 13:30-16:00

                    16 October 2024, 13:30-16:00

                    19 November 2024, 13:30-16:00

                    5 March 2025, 13:30-16:00

                    Cost: 0.5 MP 

                    • Network - Test Valley Deputy Headteacher - booking is now closed

                      • Develop deputy headteachers as leaders                                     
                      • Provide deputy headteachers with the opportunity to network
                      • Increase the number of potential headteachers

                      Project Leads: Simon Mitchell-Innes 

                      Venue: TBC

                      Dates: 

                      02 May 2024, 13:30-16:00

                      27 June 2024, 13:30-16:00

                      9 October 2024, 13:30-16:00

                      26 November 2024, 13:30-16:00

                      25 March 2025, 13:30-16:00

                      Cost: 0.5 MP 

                      • Reduced Hours Provision - booking is now closed

                        Two hour virtual session intended to support headteacher's understanding of Reduced Hours Provision.

                        • Legal position – when it should not be used
                        • DfE and HCC Good practice and controls
                        • How to mitigate the need for Reduced Hours Provision

                        Project Leads: Simon Mitchell-Innes and the Inclusion Team 

                        Venue: Tbc

                        Dates: 10 January 2025, 9:30-11:30

                        Cost: Free

                        • Developing an Irresistible Curriculum - booking is now closed

                          Outline

                          • This programme is for headteachers and other senior leaders to work together. We will draw on research on what makes really effective curriculum design, share examples of different schools’ curriculum journeys from Hampshire and beyond to help shape our thinking. 
                          • Developing an irresistible curriculum is suitable for schools at all stages of curriculum development. Curriculum is always a ‘work in progress’. 

                          The course will include:

                          • Opportunities for senior leaders to collaborate in and across different primary settings 
                          • Vision and Values - the heart of everything. What is our WHY? 
                          • Time to take stock - where are we now? Where do we want to be? How do we get there? 
                          • Key principles of curriculum design - what are they and why do we need to consider them? 
                          • Exploring how we plan for an interconnected curriculum so that we don’t get bogged down by too much subject content?
                          • Opportunities for planning and assessment (including EYFS and mixed-age classes and SEND) 
                          • Guest speakers to share their experiences of curriculum design and development in their settings.

                          Project Leads: Debbie Allen and Lindsay McCarthy

                          Venue: Tbc

                          Dates: This will take place over 6 half day sessions over the next academic year. Dates and venues to be decided. 

                          Cost: 1 MP over two financial years.

                          Booking is now closed

                          • Affordable Schools - booking is now closed

                            Aim

                            Free of charge sessions open to anyone within your school leadership team who may find them useful, for example headteachers, governors, business managers/senior admin staff. 

                            The sessions aim to provide opportunities to understand the challenges around the current financial landscape, considering options, and myth busting. 

                             Outline

                            • Session 1 – Focus on national and local financial context including a review of the financial ‘Escalator of Concern’ and practical steps schools can take at each stage
                            • Session 2 – Focus on HR implications including models of leadership, restructuring and collaborations across schools
                            • Session 3 – Focus on admissions and strategic planning including restructuring class sizes and associated key considerations

                            Project Leads: Julia Roberts, Nicky Rickman and EFS/EPS/GS

                            Venue: Tbc

                            Dates:

                            14 November, 9:30-11:30 Virtual Session

                            27 January, 9:30-12:00 New Forest schools in person session

                            27 January, 13:30-16:00 Test Valley schools in person session

                            17 March, 9:30-12:00 New Forest schools in person session

                            17 March, 13:30-16:00 Test Valley schools in person session

                            Cost: Free 

                            • Ofsted - Are you ready - booking is now closed

                              Session aim/objective/description

                              • To promote an understanding of the process for current Ofsted Inspections
                              • Opportunities to consider and prepare for an Ofsted Inspection including what to expect from the phone call through to the publishing of the report

                               Learning outcomes

                              • Leaders will feel confident and prepared for a future inspection
                              • Leaders will leave with a variety of handouts that will support them through the process and preparation

                              Project Leads: Louise Close and Chris Brooks-Martin

                              Venue: Anton Junior School

                              Dates:18 October 2024

                              Cost: 0.5 MP

                              • Ready for Ofsted

                                Session aim/objective/description

                                • To promote an understanding of the process for current Ofsted Inspections
                                • Opportunities to consider and prepare for an Ofsted Inspection including what to expect from the phone call through to the publishing of the report
                                • To hear a first hand account from a headteacher on their inspection experience

                                 Learning outcomes

                                • Leaders will feel confident and prepared for a future inspection
                                • Leaders will leave with a variety of handouts that will support them through the process and preparation

                                Project Leads: Louise Close and Chris Brooks-Martin

                                Venue: Chadwick, Podium level, EII Court, Winchester

                                Dates: 28 March 2025

                                Cost: 0.5 MP 

                                To book your place, please complete the Ready for Ofsted booking form

                                • Transforming SEND

                                  This free online set of courses is designed to support schools in successfully using the T-SEND materials. The resources are split into five modules:

                                  Module One

                                  Module Two - Inclusive Teaching

                                  Module Three - Inclusive Curriculum

                                  Module Four - Inclusive Environments

                                  Module Five - Inclusive Behaviour

                                  The focus in Module Three will be:

                                  • reflections on and actions from module One and Two
                                  • revision tour of the T-SEND site
                                  • how to use Module Three resources and information to support and improve the 'Inclusive Curriculum' in your school

                                  Module Four - Inclusive Environments - coming Spring 2

                                  This module will give you tools to increase the accessibility of mainstream primary environments by allowing the professional to use therapeutic thinking to be able to assess and adapt the environment, which encourages an inclusive ethos and culture. 

                                  Module Five - Inclusive Behaviour - coming Summer 1

                                  This module considers the DfE guidance for school behaviour policies and provides a therapeutic, neurodiversity affirming and person-centred perspective on the key concepts of agreeing the desired behaviours, agreeing the sanctions and agreeing the rewards. The module also considers how the adult and pupil roles may vary based on different therapeutic indicators from module one and provides practical ideas for implementation at school and considers the impact. 

                                  Led by: Tim Walters

                                  Venue: Virtual

                                  Date: 

                                  3 February 2025, 13:30 - 15:00

                                  4 February 2025, 09:15 - 10:45

                                  12 February 2025, 09:15 - 10:45

                                  Please note delegates only need to attend one session

                                  Cost: Free

                                  To book your place on Module 3, please complete the Transforming T-SEND sessions booking form

                                  • Disadvantaged pupils KS2 attainment

                                    This project aims to support schools in delivering their pupil premium strategy for 2025, with the goal of improving Key Stage 2 attainment for disadvantaged pupils.

                                    Through a combination of face to face sessions and Teams meetings, the project will help schools address both academic and pastoral barriers faced by non-SEND disadvantaged pupils in Year 2, so that more pupil premium pupils reach a good level of attainment in reading, writing and mathematics in the end of Key Stage 2 assessments.  

                                    Led by: Alister Moses, Tor Flynn and Owen Tromans

                                    Venue: Virtual

                                    Date: 

                                    Launch and Q&A session – 15 January 2025, 16:00 – 16:45 (virtual)

                                    PP assessment systems and processes – 5 February 2025, 16:00 – 17:30 (face to face, venue tbc)

                                    Pastoral and academic pupil progress meeting – 11 March 2025, 13:30 – 16:00 (Winchester venue)

                                    Successful SATs for disadvantaged – 31 March 2025, 16:00 – 16:45 (virtual)

                                    Pupil Premium writing focus – 29 April 2025, 16:00 – 17:30 (face to face, venue tbc)

                                    Evaluated impact and forward planning – 10 July 2025, 13:30 – 16:00 (Winchester venue)

                                    Cost: Free

                                    This course is available by invitation only.

                                    • Collaborative Curriculum Toolkit for Senior Leaders. You've monitored … so what next?

                                      This course will equip you and your subject leaders with articulating the effective monitoring and impact on your subject developments within the wider curriculum.​ 

                                      • Creating an effective monitoring schedule​
                                      • Effective monitoring documentation to evidence your impact​
                                      • How to use subject leadership time effectively.​
                                      • How to coach in having difficult conversations.

                                      Areas of focus include:

                                      • Re-evaluating your Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact ​
                                      • Making effective use of your monitoring to drive school improvement​
                                      • Identifying when to lead and when to manage​
                                      • Coaching and developing others in the leadership of change​
                                      • Rich curriculum conversations – what do you believe in?​
                                      • How can Governor's support and challenge your curriculum​
                                      • Developing a subject leader toolkit​.

                                      Led by: Chris Brooks-Martin, Stuart Adlam and Rebecca Collins

                                      Venue: tbc

                                      Dates: 

                                      21 May 2025, 09:00 - 12:00

                                      17 June 2025, 09:00 - 12:00

                                      7 July 2025, 09:00 - 12:00

                                      24 September 2025, 09:00 - 12:00

                                      Final session (Celebration session) to be confirmed

                                      Cost: 1 MP for up to two delegates

                                      To book your place please complete the Collaborative Curriculum Toolkit for Senior Leaders. You've monitored … so what next? 2025/26 booking form

                                      • Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging District Partnership Offer 2025-26

                                        We are pleased to offer a new series of Diversity and Equality networks and Equality and Rights Advocates (EARA) primary groups for schools in 2025-26.

                                        The focus for the network meetings will be ‘diversifying the curriculum and environment’ which will include an opportunity to review new resources, consider planning exemplars and good practice, and will provide an opportunity to share existing practice with colleagues.

                                        The EARA (Equality And Rights Advocates) pupil group meetings will provide an opportunity for the children to take a lead in promoting Rights and Equality through pupil voice and contribute proactively to promoting a more inclusive culture in their schools.

                                        Led by: Minnie Moore

                                        Venue: host schools within the district

                                        Dates: 

                                        New Forest

                                        Staff network meeting, 14:00 - 16:00        

                                        Pupil EARA meeting, 09:30 - 11:30

                                        01 October 2025

                                        29 January 2026

                                        20 May 2026

                                        23 October 2025

                                        26 February 2026

                                        17 June 2026

                                        Test Valley

                                        Staff network meeting, 14:00 - 16:00        

                                        Pupil EARA meeting, 09:30 - 11:30

                                        07 October 2025

                                        03 February 2026

                                        21 May 2026

                                        04 November 2025

                                        03 March 2026

                                        18 June 2026

                                        Cost: 0.5 MP

                                        To book your place, please complete the Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging District Partnership Offer 2025-26 booking form