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TRAINING
We offer continuous professional learning (CPL) that is creative, collaborative and research based focused on making a long lasting impact on pupil outcomes. We aim to challenge and engage participants, encourage collaborative learning and develop reflective practice.
All our work is Quality Assured and as well as offering training at Woodbridge Training Hub – Heaton, we also can arrange for bespoke training in your setting.
Contact us for the nearest available dates at: training@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk
Courses
AVAILABLE COURSES
AN INTRODUCTION TO ASD (ONLINE)
This online course will offer an introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and highlight some effective strategies to support children with their communication and interaction difficulties. This introductory course is suitable for anyone who wants to start on their journey of understanding ASD and developing their knowledge of supportive strategies.
Course Dates & Times:
Online Learning
Cost:
£55 per delegate
AN INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION (ONLINE)
Would you like to learn more about how to develop your child’s communication skills? This online taster course will support with strategies to use with children and outline the stages of communication that you can expect your child to advance through. It is suitable for anyone who is supporting children at the early stages of communication.The course will cover; Pre-intentional communication, Anticipatory communication, Intentional communication, Words, Signs and symbols.
Course Dates & Times:
Online learning
Cost:
£55 per delegate
AN INTRODUCTION TO DYSLEXIA (ONLINE)
Would you like to develop your understanding of how to support dyslexia-type
learning needs in the classroom?
This online course will offer an introduction to dyslexia and provide simple strategies to support dyslexia friendly learning. It is suitable for staff working across all key stages and for those who wish to broaden their understanding of this common learning difference. The course includes online quiz questions to develop your knowledge and interactive content. Delegates are able to work at their own pace at a time that suits them. Each delegate will also receive a certificate of attendance on completion.
Course Dates & Times:
Online learning
Cost:
£55 per delegate
ASD - A DEEPER PERSPECTIVE
This course is aimed at deepening a delegate’s knowledge of ASD and the impact this has on pupils’ social and academic progress in school. This includes information to further highlight and explain the difficulties that pupils with ASD experience and underpin the often inappropriate manner in which pupils may respond in different situations.
Course Dates & Times:
January 2024 (09:30-16:00) Exact date TBC
Cost:
£220 per delegate
ASD AND SENSORY NEEDS (ONLINE)
This course will help you to explore and develop your knowledge on the basics of sensory processing and how this affects pupils both in the classroom and in the home. You will have a deeper understanding of the seven different types of senses. This is an easy-to-follow course format and allows you to work at your own pace at home or in work.
Course Dates & Times:
Online Learning
Cost:
£55 per delegate
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
An introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and an outline of how it may impact on children you work with. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of strategies and resources to support pupils with ASD in the classroom.
Course Dates & Times:
Session 1: Wednesday 8th November 2023 (15:45-17:15) Session 2: Wednesday 15th November 2023 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£110 per delegate
BESPOKE TRAINING
All programmes detailed in this booklet can be booked as a bespoke package for whole school staff training as part of a training day or a twilight session.
If you have any other bespoke training needs for your school, which are not listed in this booklet, please contact Ladywood Outreach and we will be happy to discuss your requirements. Alongside the courses running at our Woodbridge Training Hub, Ladywood Outreach offer a wide variety of other courses that can be delivered in your setting.
OTHER COURSES WE CAN OFFER INCLUDE:
- Moving & Handling
- Working Memory (Primary & Secondary)
- Identifying the Sensory Need
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Supporting Strategies
- Interactive Storytelling
- Using Massage and Positive Touch to Tell Stories
- Teaching Early Mathematics
- Deliver Phonics Confidently
- Supporting Communication in the Early Years
- Therapeutic Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Developing Outdoor Learning
- Supporting pupil/staff Wellbeing
Course Dates & Times:
Cost:
COMMUNICATION APPROACH
A greater understanding of Speech Language and Communication Needs with strategies to support expressive, receptive and pragmatic language differences. An introduction to SLCN and supporting strategies in the learning environment.
During the session delegates will become familiar with the difficulties associated with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and know how these impact on children’s learning inside and outside of the classroom.
Delegates will become aware of the terms associated with SLCN and know how to identify the different aspects of SLCN e.g. receptive, expressive and semantic pragmatic language needs.
Course Dates & Times:
January 2024 (09:30-16:00) Exact date TBC
Cost:
£220 per delegate
DYSLEXIA AWARENESS & CLASSROOM STRATEGIES
This programme provides an introduction to Dyslexia, and will include other associated SpLDs. The session will include identification of such SpLDs, the difficulties presented and suggested strategies for inclusion in the classroom.
Course Dates & Times:
TBC
Cost:
£110 per delegate
ELKLAN
ELKLAN is a practical training course for staff wanting to develop the speech and language skills of ALL children but especially those with speech and language difficulties. The course will provide new approaches and strategies to help pupils maximise their speech, language and communication potential and effectively adapt the curriculum. It will give staff the opportunity to reflect upon their own teaching and learning to ensure that children are best supported to engage with their curriculum and to communicate more effectively about learning.
SPEECH & LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR 5-11s
10 week block of sessions, starting in late March 2024 (09:00-12:30)
More information about specific session dates available on request
SPEECH & LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR 11-16s
10 week block of sessions, starting in late March 2024 (09:00-12:30)
More information about specific session dates available on request
Course Dates & Times:
March 2024
Cost:
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) - NEW!
It is estimated that FASD (Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder) may affect up to 3% of children in schools, and up to 27% of children in care, yet many teachers know little about the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol on pupils’ education and life chances, or how to support them to make academic and social progress.
Through discussion and group activities, this training aims to increase awareness of the challenges pupils with FASD face and to provide educators and support staff with strategies that can be used to support their needs.
Course Dates & Times:
Session 1: Wednesday 22nd November 2023 (15:45-17:15)
Session 2: Wednesday 29th November 2023 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£220 per delegate
LEGO THERAPY©
Lego Therapy© is an intervention to support the development of language skills. In Lego Therapy© pupils work in teams to build Lego models, developing their language skills as they do. In this practical session you will learn how to prepare for, facilitate and assess Lego Therapy sessions.
Course Dates & Times:
Strategies - Monday 29th January 2024 (15:45-17:15)
Classroom practice - Monday 5th February 2024 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£220 (delegates must attend both sessions)
NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING DIPLOMA
The Neuro Linguistic Programming Diploma will enable you to understand, communicate and influence others more masterfully to achieve outcomes. You will learn the background and underlying principles of NLP, the “mindset for success” You will know how to recognise and work with the different ways people process and express information. It will enable you to become a more resilient person and how to put events and situations into perspective.
Course Dates & Times:
Session 1 - Friday 1st Dec 2023 (09:30-16:00)
Session 2 - Friday 12th January 2024 (09:30-16:00)
Session 3 - Friday 16th February 2024 (09:30-16:00)
Session 4 - Friday 22nd March 2024 (09:30-16:00)
Cost:
£495 per delegate
SIGNALONG
Signalong is a communication system that supports communication across all key stages. It is specifically designed to reinforce spoken language and reduce barriers to learning for all.
It can be easily integrated into every day classroom practice and develops communication between both staff and peers.
Course Dates & Times:
Five full morning sessions - 27/2/24, 05/03/24, 12/3/24, 19/3/24 & 26/3/24 (09:30-12:00)
Cost:
£320 per delegate
SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME (EARLY YEARS AND PRIMARY)
This online course will introduce you to the preferred learning profile of children with Down Syndrome. It introduces you to typical areas of strengths and needs, offering strategies to consider to support areas of weakness. This is an interactive course with videos and activities. Complete this short course at your own pace and revisit ideas and learning as the modules progress.
Course Dates & Times:
Online learning
Cost:
£55 per delegate
Speaking, listening & language intervention (TP@1 & TP@2)
Talking Partners @ Primary and Talking Partners @ Secondary have been developed as an intervention programme to address specific aspects of language and social communication skills with an expected positive impact on learner behaviour, self-esteem and general emotional well-being.
Attendees will gain the knowledge and skills to deliver the programme or to implement aspects of it in the classroom to support the development of spoken language. All delegates will receive planning / assessment booklets, a range of quality visual frameworks to deliver the programme back in school.
Course Dates & Times:
Two full day sessions - February 2024 - Exact date TBC
Cost:
£320 per delegate
THE ENGAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Do you have children in school that struggle to engage in their curriculum? Are you committed to enabling all children to effectively access their learning? Are you ‘adaptive and responsive’ to the children’s abilities to engage? Have you got an engagement tool kit to support all children to access their learning?
This course will provide a range of strategies to assess children’s engagement and identify a programme to best suit the needs of an individual child. We will look at a range of strategies taken from a variety of different programmes to build an engagement toolkit for your school. We will look at the Rochford engagement model and build elements around this to create your tool kit for engagement.
Course Dates & Times:
Monday 15th January 2024 (15:30-17:30)
Cost:
£110 per delegate
THE QUIET CHILD
This programme provides an introduction to the profile of a quiet child. During the session delegates will be introduced to the differences between selective mutism, reluctant communicators and shy / quiet children. The session will highlight the impact that shyness and quietness can have on the progress of children.
The delegates will be introduced to appropriate strategies to help support quiet children in their learning and social environment so that they feel more comfortable and become more confident in their communication and learning.
Course Dates & Times:
TBC
Cost:
£55 per delegate
WHAT IS COGNITIVE LOAD? - MAKING LEARNING STICKY
Knowledge does not sit as isolated ‘information’ in pupils’ minds it is connected and intertwined. Progress means knowing more and remembering more. Knowledge is generative (or ‘sticky’), i.e. the more you know, the more easily you can learn.
In the training we look at how knowledge is connected in webs or ‘schemata’ and how the curriculum design and opportunities in class can affect this. We discover how working memory, metacognition and vocabulary size relates to academic success, and how the opportunities we provide in school is crucial to help make learning “sticky”.
Course Dates & Times:
Monday 22nd January 2024 (15:30-17:30)
Cost:
£110 per delegate
WORKING MEMORY (PRIMARY & SECONDARY)
This practical and interactive session will provide strategies and resources that can be utilised to develop memory. This programme will give you an understanding of how pupils connect new knowledge with existing knowledge and to identify approaches that can be implemented into the classroom in order to support the learner.
Course Dates & Times:
Date TBC
Cost:
£110 per delegate
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