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  • Work Discussion Groups for Headteachers

    Regular meetings with two EPs and your peers to focus on school leadership and wellbeing. 

    The role of the headteacher can be a lonely one with complex issues to resolve. These groups give space to the issues keeping you awake at night, whether it’s staffing, community, or classroom factors. They can also help you have opportunities to reflect and consider your identity as a leader in your unique context. The psychologists facilitate the group and bring problem solving techniques and psychological theory to support thinking.

    “I value the trust in the group and a safe space to discuss things of real concern.”

    To book or if you have questions please email Dr Rebecca Murphy: rebecca.murphy@hants.gov.uk

    Cost: Meetings are half termly. Cost £360 per annum.

    • Pathways to Outstanding for Senior Leaders and Governors - booking is now closed

      Focus on securing outstanding practice across aspects of participating schools’ work. 

      This is a school-based programme for senior leaders and school governors to share best practice, discuss with and learn from others and further develop their own outstanding practice.

      • Provides opportunities for senior leaders and governors to visit a range of schools with high-quality practice.
      • Senior leaders and governors from the host school share their context and an aspect of practice that is having a significant impact on learning and leadership
      • Opportunity to look around the school and ask questions of the hosts
      • Time to reflect on own practice in school and possible steps forward
      • ‘Think piece’ session for senior leaders and governors led by Primary Phase Inspector and Hampshire Governor Service
      • Reading / research / e-learning for preparation / completion / discussion at the next session

      Schools can bring up to 3 senior leaders and 2 governors to each session.

      Led by: Chris Brooks-Martin chris.brooks-martin2@hants.gov.uk

      Location: Host Schools

      Dates: 6 morning sessions across the academic year.

      Cost: The cost per school for the whole programme

      1 day of LA inspector time payable from each school’s management partnership fund to attend all the session and 3.5 hours (approximately £300) per school of Governor Services time payable to Governor Services from each school’s budget.

      There will be no charge for governors whose schools subscribe to Hampshire Governor Services

      • Inclusive Schools, Inclusive Leaders

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        Audience: Havant and East Hants Headteachers

        At each virtual session, you will be introduced to professionals and materials that support your work as inclusive leaders leading inclusive schools.

        All sessions provide professional input, some are training focused, others lend themselves to working in virtual discussion groups that allow colleagues to explore issues and share practice.

        You will be invited by Laura Longmore. Every session is designed to support you in your role. No need to accept or decline the invite – come to as many as you can!

        Led by: Caroline Wilkins caroline.wilkins@hants.gov.uk

        Format: Half termly sessions, virtual 13:30– 15:00

        Dates:

        Autumn term: 17 September and 26 November 2024

        Spring term: 21 January and 4 March 2025

        Summer term: 29 April and 10 June 2025

        Cost: No charge, funded by the LA

        • Leadership Reading Group

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          Audience: Havant and East Hants Headteachers

          Each half term we chose a new text, often a book or key piece of reading.

          The session allows discussion about the content, a review of linked information e.g. media about authors and content. We also explore how we might use the content as leaders in our schools, where applicable.

          There is a ppt provided for each session to summarise the text that can be used by leaders with their SLT and/or staff teams.

          Join at any time! You will be welcome!

          Contact: Caroline Wilkins caroline.wilkins@hants.gov.uk

          Format: Half termly sessions, virtual 13:00–15:00

          Dates:

          Autumn term: 25 September 2024 and 13 November 2024

          Spring term: 15 January 2025 and 12 March 2025

          Summer term: 21 May 2025 and 9 July 2025

          Cost: 

          2.5 hours management partnership for all

          6 x 2 hour afternoon sessions over the year

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          • Headteacher Mentor Training

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            Audience: Havant and East Hants Headteachers

            • To ensure consistent and effective support for headteachers new to their posts, provided by experienced headteachers
            • To ensure mentors feel well supported by the LA
            • To secure a collaborative approach with other headteacher mentors

            Contact: Alison Rhodes alison.rhodes@hants.gov.uk
             
            Format: 5 virtual training and supervision sessions across the autumn and spring terms.

            Sessions are up to two hours on Teams.

            Dates: tbc with the group

            Cost: no cost to schools, LA funded

            • Developing an irresistible curriculum - booking is now closed

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              Audience: Havant and East Hants Headteachers and senior leaders responsible for the curriculum.

              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:

              • 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. 

              Contact: Debbie Allen debbie.allen@hants.gov.uk

              Format: 6 x half day sessions

              Dates: tbc with group

              Cost: 1 day management partnership per school, two places per school

              • The Havant and East Hants Big District Inclusion Project 2024-2025 9 offers!!

                • Havant and East Hants Year 6 Data Project - booking is now closed

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                  Supporting Year 6 to improved outcomes at the EOKS2

                  The aims of the project are to:

                  • support schools with improving combined data 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, e.g. making best use of Question Level Analysis data
                  • explore leadership approaches that can be used effectively beyond year 6 to raise standards across the school

                  Led by: Ed Dawson, Alison Rhodes, Chris Cheal and Kate Spencer

                  Format: 8 half day sessions will run in the afternoons from 13:30–16:30, (except session 7 which will be a morning session).  

                  Dates:

                  9 September 2024

                  23 October 2024

                  22 November 2024

                  6 January 2025

                  5 February 2025

                  14 March 2025

                  30 April 2025

                  10 July 2025

                  Cost:  2 days MP, spread across two financial years

                  • Developing a Teaching and Learning Coach in your school

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                    Audience: Teachers who have skills and capacity to be whole school teaching and learning coaches

                    Have you got a teacher who has:

                    • excellent classroom practice?
                    • a sound understanding of pedagogy?
                    • credibility within the school?
                    • an ability to communicate and forge good relationships with other teachers?
                    • good organisational skills?
                    • the ability to give ‘difficult’ messages when required?

                    Do you want to:

                    • build future coaching capacity in your school?
                    • develop a leader of teaching and learning?

                    Led by: Sarah Sedgwick

                    Format: Four half day school based sessions

                    Dates: Spring 2, 2025 tbc with schools

                    Cost: 1.5 days management partnership per school, maximum of two teachers per school

                    • Bespoke Teaching And Learning Support for individual teachers

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                      Audience: Teachers who would benefit from bespoke teaching and learning support

                      The HIAS teaching and learning team support a range of schools to improve standards of teaching and learning.

                      Key specialisms:

                      • Securing rapid improvement in the quality of teaching and learning with teachers and a range of senior and middle leaders
                      • Working alongside by observing, identifying and demonstrating excellent classroom practice with a range of teachers in their classrooms
                      • Coaching teaching and learning leaders to improve capacity in schools

                      Led by: Sarah Sedgwick

                      Format:

                      Face to face training, 1:1 with individual teachers and bespoke to meet needs of individual schools and school budgets.

                      Support with planning, delivery to  meet the needs of all pupil groups, shared review of lessons, joint teaching, feedback, bespoke next steps.

                      Dates: tbc with schools directly

                      Cost: tbc according to number of days required, paid through management partnership

                      • Evaluating and developing the effectiveness of the culture for safeguarding in your school

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                        Audience: The course takes place in your school and can be booked for the headteacher, DSL and anybody who has an identified role in safeguarding (deputy DSLs, safeguarding governors)

                        Aim of the course: 

                        This one-day session provides professional development for headteachers, DSLs and safeguarding governors as well as an in-depth evaluation of the culture for safeguarding in your school.

                        • What do we mean by an ‘effective culture for safeguarding’?
                        • How do we achieve this in practice?
                        • How do we efficiently and effectively monitor safeguarding in a primary school setting?
                        • How effective is your safeguarding culture?

                        Working together over the course of a day, I will take you through the process of evaluating every key aspect of safeguarding and child protection policy and practice, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and supporting the development of a safeguarding development strategy.

                        Key areas explored together during the day include:

                        • Site security, health and safety,
                        • Recording, reporting and follow-up of concerns
                        • Staff behaviour, safer-recruitment and induction
                        • Pupil behaviour and bullying - Do children ‘feel safe’?
                        • Attendance and absence
                        • Training, understanding and KCSiE
                        • The curriculum and the extent to which it teaches children to keep themselves and others safe
                        • Monitoring and filtering, the school website and information in school
                        • Monitoring, oversight and the role of the FGB

                        Led by: Jason Matthews

                        Dates: tbc with schools directly

                        Cost: 1 day management partnership

                        • Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging District Partnership Offer 2024-25

                          Audience: Staff leading DIB work in schools

                          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 meetings will provide an opportunity for the children to take a lead in promoting Rights and Equality through pupil voice and contribute pro-actively to promoting a more inclusive culture in their schools.
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                          Led by: Minnie Moore 

                          Format: One network meeting and one Equality and Rights Advocates (EARA) meeting per term for each of the districts engaged in the partnerships.

                          Autumn term 2024 – Network meeting + EARA meeting

                          Spring term 2025 – Network meeting + EARA meeting

                          Summer term 2025 – Network meeting + EARA meeting

                          Location: The networks and EARA meetings will take place in host schools across the district.

                          Time: Network meetings – 14.00-16.00 EARA meetings – 09.30-11.30

                          Cost: The charge to schools will be 0.5-day HIAS rates per school for the academic year 2024-25 and will require a minimum of 10 schools to be viable.

                          • Leading more than one school

                            Audience: Executive headteachers, and Heads of Schools and Deputy Headteachers.

                            These sessions have been redesigned in recognition of the broader strategic leadership challenges which are specific to leaders of federated schools. 

                            The sessions aim to facilitate conversation and deepen the networking between Executive Headteachers and Heads of School / Deputy headteachers from Havant and East Hants.  

                            The first session will focus on networking, understanding each other’s context and identifying similar successes and challenges. The outcome will shape the content of the following sessions to meet your current needs in addition to the foci already planned in light of last year’s Head of School meetings.

                            Led by: Cherry Chope

                            Date, time and location: 

                            7 November 2024

                            13:30-16:30

                            Location: TBC

                            Session One: Networking and creating a shared understanding of the joint challenges and how each federation is unique

                            8 January2025

                            9:00-12:00

                            Location: TBC

                            Session Two: Joint working focus to be confirmed following session one.

                            27 February 2025

                            13:30-16:30

                            Location: Haven Nursery Inclusion for all

                            Session Three: Inclusion for all, getting it right from the start: The Headteacher from Haven Maintained Nursery will share their philosophy for inclusion and how this looks across the setting for the youngest children. We will reflect on the key characteristics of the provision and consider what lessons we can be learnt for our own schools. ​

                            1 May 2025

                            13:30-16:30

                            Location: TBC

                            Session Four: Joint working focus to be confirmed following session one.

                            12 June 2025

                            13:30-16:30 

                            Location: Mill Hill Primary School

                            Session Five: Supporting our most disadvantaged pupils to improve attendance and access full time learning: A presentation from the Headteacher regarding the breadth of strategies used to promote attendance, reduce suspensions and reduced hour provision so that pupils can feel connected and experience success.​

                            Cost: 1 day MP for all five sessions

                            To book your place on this project, please contact Nikki Palmer nikki.palmer@hants.gov.uk.

                            Click here to download the course flyer.

                            • Every step of the way: The inclusive classroom - booking is now closed

                              How adults extend and support learning through effective feedback for children at SE support level. A joint project with the Early Years Teams.

                              The number of pupils with SEND has risen each year. As a Local Authority there is the aspiration that every child has the entitlement to a good education irrespective of need.

                              This course aims to support SENDCos, senior leaders and teachers to evaluate the impact of the use of feedback in their early years classrooms and identify how to strengthen provision further in light of new learning.

                              This training offer is influenced by research of Elena Soukakou’s (Roehampton University) The Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP™) and builds on work of schools within the Havant and East Hants districts.

                              Intended for: Senior Leaders, SENDCos, and Early Years Teachers

                              Facilitators: Cherry Chope and District Early Years Advisory Teachers

                              Areas of focus include:

                              • exploration of how adults extend and support learning through effective feedback for children at SEND Support level
                              • how adults can support learning during high quality continuous provision
                              • across the four sessions we will consider both progression in learning and child development, with specific focus on early experiences in mathematics, writing and outdoor learning
                              • support to evaluate the key features of your provision and to plan the implementation of next steps
                              • using feedback both in the moment and to inform future provision including, what additional teaching is needed to support children on their broad learning journey
                              • creating a safe and trusting relationships where students feel valued and can take risks.

                              Dates:         

                              Session One:          8 November 2024                        9:00-12:00

                              Session Two:          6 December 2024                        9:00-12:00

                              Session Three:       21 January 2025                          9:00-12:00

                              Session Four:         27 March 20225                           9:00-12:00

                               

                              Location: tbc

                              Cost: 1 day MP per school (multiple delegates welcome)