Upcoming events

This Refresher course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.

As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.

This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.

Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee

Note: DSL Refresher courses via Zoom cost 100.00 for non-members. ASK members receive 1 free place on DSL training per membership cycle.

 All sessions must be attended.

Session 1: 

Roles & Responsibilities: Thursday 16th September 2021 from 6-8pm

• To be able to identify the roles and responsibilities of school governors and apply this when working with senior leaders to identify key priorities for school improvement, and respond appropriately whilst operating within current legislation and guidance.
• To be able to state the difference between strategic and operational running of a school and governors roles within this.

Session 2:

Thursday 3rd February 2022 from 6-8pm

• Pupil data and formats
• Pupil Premium Finance
• Safeguarding
• Policies
• Monitoring

Session 3:

Thursday 28th April 2022 from 6-8pm : Being Ofsted ready

• Preparing for Ofsted Inspections

Suitable for: Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Learning Mentors, Inclusion Leads/SENCO’s, Pastoral Support

Impact:

• Stress and anxiety- how to explain what this is to children, to help their understanding.
• Looking after our mental health with the 10 keys to happier living prevention strategies.
• How to include relaxation techniques everyday in your busy classroom- for you and the children.
• Creating a ‘panic attack’ coping plan.
• Creating a ‘Stress Busting’ resource.
• Sharing resources and best practise from schools.
• Learning about self-regulation with ‘Zones of Regulation’ resources.

Implementation:

• Improving school refusal and attendance.
• Building a strong, resilient learner.
• Creating a calm, happy environment where learning and understanding grows.
• Improves relationships and behaviour, supporting the learning environment.
• Resources to support relaxation, reducing panic or anxiety. 
• Removes the barrier of anxiety to aid learning and concentration. 

Event Type : Multiple Events, Attend All

A resilience programme for NQTs, RQTs & those in school new to role . The programme is designed to support capacity to recover quickly, remain effective and maintain a good sense of wellbeing. Through these six weekly sessions we will explore how to reconnect with previous successes and strengths alongside learning new strategies and techniques for managing an ever changing world and supporting your own wellbeing.

The sessions will take place after school (3.45-4.45pm) via Zoom:

Wednesday 22th September 2021
Wednesday 29th September 2021
Wednesday 6th October 2021
Wednesday 13th October 2021
Wednesday 3rd November 2021
Wednesday 10th November 2021

An introduction to PP for governors and their statutory responsibilities for funding and publishing the strategy.
Suitable for all governors, especially PP governors.

Suitable for: Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Learning Mentors, Inclusion Leads/SENCO’s, Pastoral Support

Impact

• Reviewing the themes and theoretical frameworks around Protective Behaviours.
• Opportunities to discuss applications and practice with examples from schools.
• Creating your own classroom PB Resources.
• How to involve parents/carers with this approach.
• Integrating PB’s into your creative/themed curriculum.

Implementation:

• Children feel safe at school and know how to cope when they don’t feel safe.
• Creating a classroom that supports and promotes positive mental health.
• Resources to inform and guide teaching practice.
• Information sharing to support family’s knowledge and understanding. 
• Applying this approach into everyday learning experiences, linking with curriculum subjects. 

(Introduction to Safeguarding session must have been attended)

Most schools recognise the importance of the Governing Body nominating an individual governor to champion safeguarding and child protection issues within the school. This person is often known as the “Safeguarding Governor”. It is important that such governors fully understand the responsibilities of this role and the part they can play in monitoring and helping to develop more effective practices.

All sessions must be attended.

Across the school year, we are faced with many problems of practice, and bombarded with just as many potential solutions! The challenge is how you select the right solution, then translate and adapt it to make it work for your learners, in your context. The highest impact comes when we can collaborate as professional teams to innovate with potential solutions, exploring how they could work best for our learners. Herein lies the power of collaborative teacher inquiry…

‘Our central argument is that innovation floats on a sea of inquiry and that curiosity is a driver for change.’
Timberley, Kaser & Halbert (2014)

All sessions must be attended.

Sessions will be a blend of Zoom and face-to-face, and will all be 3.45pm-5.15pm

• 7.10.2021 Zoom
• 3.11.2021 Loatlands Primary School, NN14 2NJ, Kettering
• 25.11.2021 Loatlands Primary School, NN14 2NJ,  Kettering
• 9.2.2021 Zoom

This programme will take you on a journey from evidence through to impact, building your skills and expertise in collaborative teacher inquiry as a framework for enabling you to explore and solve problems of practice. Collaborative inquiry enables teacher teams can come together to examine their practice, to ask questions, to develop theories of action, to implement, evaluate and refine approaches designed to improve specific outcomes for learners.  

This course is suitable for teachers of any age-range. It will have the greatest impact where two teachers from the same school can attend and collaborate on a school-based inquiry.

An introduction for all governors on preparation and what to expect during an Ofsted inspection. It will also cover expectations for Governors on the new framework.
Suitable for all Governors

Friday 12 November and Monday 15 November, Attend All Days

Domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, a decline in parental mental health, post- natal depression, forced migration, and removal from the birth home can all cause trauma to children’s brains which result in attachment difficulties. Increasingly, many children and young people have social and emotional needs that go beyond what the majority of school staff has been trained to deal with. Many of these children underachieve in school. This training will help you to help them to access educational opportunities.

To support Governors in School funding, budget monitoring / planning, benchmarking and the Schools Financial Value standard.
Suitable for all governors, especially those within finance & resource roles

This refresher course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.

As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.

This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.

Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee

Note: DSL Refresher courses via Zoom cost 100.00 for non-members. ASK members receive 1 free place on DSL training per membership cycle.

The Improvement Focus is to meet the statutory requirement of all Schools for ‘Looked After Children’, and is recommended for the Designated Person for Looked after Children and LAC Governors.

To support governors understanding of how to handle complaints and the correct process to follow to ensure compliance. It also covers information for prospective panel members.
Suitable for all Governors

This refresher course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.

As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.

This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.

Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee

Note: DSL Refresher courses via Zoom cost 100.00 for non-members. ASK members receive 1 free place on DSL training per membership cycle.

An in depth look at the school improvement plan/ self evaluation form and the links between the two. Governors responsibilities in this area and what question to ask. 
Suitable for all Governors.

 (Introduction to Safeguarding session must have been attended)

Most schools recognise the importance of the Governing Body nominating an individual governor to champion safeguarding and child protection issues within the school. This person is often known as the “Safeguarding Governor”. It is important that such governors fully understand the responsibilities of this role and the part they can play in monitoring and helping to develop more effective practices.

This refresher course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.

As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.

This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.

Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee

Note: DSL Refresher courses via Zoom cost 100.00 for non-members. ASK members receive 1 free place on DSL training per membership cycle.

This refresher course meets the statutory requirements of the two-year Refresher Training for Designated Safeguarding Leads in schools.

As part of the arrangements which must be in place as required by S.175/S.157 of the Education Act 2002 and “Keeping Children Safe in Education” all schools must have a member of the leadership team as their Designated Safeguarding Lead.

This person must take lead responsibility for dealing with child protection issues, referring concerns of significant harm, providing advice and guidance to support all staff to carry out their safeguarding duties, overseeing the school provision of early help and liaising with other agencies as required.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead must receive training which gives them the knowledge and skills needed to fulfil their responsibilities and this training must be updated every two years. The course that we have planned meets these statutory requirements.

Our training is led by Lesley Pollard
Experienced local Safeguarding Trainer and member of NSCB Learning & Development Committee

Note: DSL Refresher courses via Zoom cost 100.00 for non-members. ASK members receive 1 free place on DSL training per membership cycle.

Mindfulness practice increases children’s awareness of self, others and help them to direct their attention and control distraction.  In partnership with MISP (Mindfulness in Schools Programme), Inspire is offering training to teach mindfulness to primary aged pupils through the paws b curriculum.  This is a high quality training where the techniques and materials provided are fully grounded in research and evidence based practice emanating from Oxford, Cambridge and Bangor Universities.