CPD Courses & INSETs

Achieving Greater Depth in English

What does it take for your children to achieve greater depth in both reading and writing? This fast-paced, practical, one-day CPD course shares the secrets behind school-wide strategies for success.

Achieving Greater Depth in Maths

How can you help your pupils to achieve greater depth in Maths? This one-day CPD course shares the secrets behind strategies for success.

Analyse School Performance: The New RAISEonline Workshop

Bring your ASP data with you to this practical one-day workshop to understand the Analyse School Performance platform (including the new Ofsted IDSR) and utilise your data to write evaluative comments for your school’s SEF and School Improvement Plan.

Challenging Behaviour: A Question of Learning

Increasing numbers of teachers at secondary schools are starting to question approaches to pupil behaviour.  Is it deliberately disruptive? Is it due to some sort of educational need? Or, as we outline in this course, is it more to do with a need to communicate personal needs and thoughts?

Challenging Pupil Behaviour & How to Overcome It

Discover ways to improve pupil behaviour at your school. This practical course provides a range of strategies and approaches to classroom practice that can help.

Closing the Gap at Secondary: Improving Outcomes for All

Around 30% of primary pupils don’t start secondary school with the expected standard in English, maths or both – so what can we do to support them?  Our proven strategies will help you support those pupils who need it most – improving maths skills, knowledge and reasoning, writing ability and expanding their vocabulary, and improving reading skills to help them access the wider curriculum.

Closing The Gap: Raising Attainment For Disadvantaged Pupils

Accelerate the learning of disadvantaged pupils. This dynamic course inspires teachers and leaders with proven strategies to enable our disadvantaged children to reach their potential.

Coaching for School Leaders

As a school leader, you know that the value of coaching within your school cannot be underestimated. Discover the full power of successful, effective coaching with this inspirational course.

Cognitive Development in Practice: Creating Thinking Schools

This course provides real-world, practical ideas to help support schools in developing their ‘thinking learners’, giving ownership of that learning process back to the children, to improve outcomes from Early Years through to Year 6.

Complex Needs and Communication: The Behaviour Question

Increasing numbers of teachers at special needs schools are starting to question pupil behaviour.  Is it disruptive? Is it due to medical diagnoses? Or, as we outline in this course, is it more to do with a need to communicate personal needs and thoughts?

Courageous Conversations: Successful Communication for School Leadership

Challenging conversations are a daily occurrence for school leaders. In this inspirational, practical INSET, you will be supporting in cultivating your communication skills to get the best outcomes from these all-important conversations.

Creating a Broad and Balanced Curriculum

This exciting CPD course will support primary school leaders in designing and implementing a coherent, rich and varied curriculum that will benefit pupils of all ages.

Creating a Curriculum of Wonder: Irresistible Learning in Special Schools

How do you maintain academic rigour, high expectations, pupil engagement AND meet the wider requirements of children with complex needs?  This interactive course will take you through the stages of curriculum design, all with a special needs focus.

Creative Outdoor Learning

An exciting and inspirational approach to developing learning skills and content at all ages for those eager to find out the benefits of being outdoors.

Developing Outstanding Subject and Middle Leaders

This informative and practical course will help you to understand, and make progress in, your role as a primary subject leader or middle leader.

Effective Performance Management for School Leaders

Discover how to manage the performance of your staff in a positive way that will support the improvement of their day-to-day performance.

English Subject Leader Masterclass

Specifically created for Primary English subject leaders, this INSET day provides the strategies, approaches and knowledge that will help you to excel in this important role.

Improving Wellbeing for Pupils and Teachers

Resilience – something every pupil and member of staff needs if we are to make progress. Gain experience of practical, insightful and proven strategies to monitor, maintain and grow wellbeing for staff AND pupils in your school.

Inspired To Lead: National Leadership Programme

The Inspired to Lead National Leadership Programme aims to create leaders at every level and is suitable for all primary senior and middle leaders and those aspiring to leadership positions.

Leading English and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

Leading English and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework will support you in your role in Leading English. With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this workshop-style course will unpick what is expected from Leaders of English, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new OFSTED framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading Foundation Subjects and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

Leading Foundation Subjects and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework will support you in your role as a Subject Leader of disciplines such as History, Geography, RE, MFL, PSHE/SRE, Music, Art, D&T, Computing, PE, etc. With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this workshop-style course will unpick what is expected from foundation subject leaders, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new Ofsted framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading in a Complex Setting: Teaching in a Special School

Classroom teaching in mainstream settings is usually a one-person show, or if you’re fortunate you may also have a TA.  Teaching in a special school (or provision within mainstream) often means you have a team of three or more other adults to lead.

Leading Maths and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

Leading Maths and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework will support you in your role as a maths Leader. With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this workshop-style course will unpick what is expected from leaders of maths, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new OFSTED framework requirements against managing workload and wellbeing.

Leading Science and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

Leading Science and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework will support you in your role as a Science Subject Leader. With a focus on staff development, ensuring clarity of vision, consistency and how to use monitoring to best effect, this workshop-style course will unpick what is expected from leaders of science, help you to develop clear next steps on your journey to excellence, and balance the new Ofsted framework requirements for science against managing workload and wellbeing.

Mastery Across the Curriculum

This dynamic course inspires teachers to provide primary children with meaningful opportunities to move their learning to greater depth, supporting reasoning and strengthening of thinking skills.

Mastery in Leadership

Mastery in Leadership is a one-day CPD course for school leaders that focuses on the qualities of successful leadership. This cutting edge course draws on the latest thinking to inspire school leaders towards developing outstanding schools through reflective and visionary leadership.

Maths Subject Leader Masterclass

This INSET day has been specifically created for Primary Maths subject leaders. Return to the classroom with a new set of knowledge, tools and approaches to support effective learning across maths.

New to Deputy Headship

This one-day course explores the key characteristics of a successful deputy head from the perspective of somebody who is new to the role. 

New to Subject Leadership: Sustainable Improvement in Secondary

Many teachers get promoted to subject leadership as they demonstrate excellence in the classroom – but how many get as much support after that?  This course is aimed at giving you the skills you need to broaden your excellence and build sustainable improvements.

Outstanding Foundation Stage Practice

Evaluate and improve your current Early Years provision.

This course will give you a greater understanding of current expectations within the statutory EYFS framework, alongside successful strategies to enhance outdoor learning environments, improve parental engagement and, ultimately, ensure successful outcomes for all of your children.

Outstanding SMSC Across the Primary Curriculum

Outstanding SMSC Across the Primary Curriculum is a practical and thoughtful look at the curriculum requirements for SMSC and PSHE and ways to successfully achieve them.

Outstanding Teaching of Grammar

Improve your subject knowledge in grammar and discover high impact games, strategies and approaches that will help you enhance your children’s grammatical knowledge.

Raising Attainment Across the Curriculum

Reading, writing and maths have always had the majority of curriculum time, but how well can your pupils demonstrate progress, reasoning and deeper thinking across all subjects? This INSET explores how great learning across foundation subjects can have a positive impact on the impact core learning and development of each of your pupils.

Raising Attainment in Computing

We live in a computer-based world. It is absolutely vital that our children understand how computers work, how to use them, and how to stay safe around them. This full-day training course will look at all aspects of the computer curriculum, as well as how to use technology to support and inspire learning across the curriculum.

Raising Attainment in Maths

This powerful one-day maths CPD course explores how to ensure pupils can master skills, tackle progressively challenging problems and reason effectively. It includes a range of proven strategies and fun activities to improve outcomes in maths.

Raising Attainment in Primary Art

All children need the opportunity to be creative and express themselves. It allows children to think, investigate, explore all whilst developing skills and the confidence to be themselves. But how do we ensure that the skills and knowledge children need are taught in enough depth and that our curriculum is progressive?

Raising Attainment in Primary Geography

Get an overview of the knowledge and skills that children need to become successful Geographers. This powerful one-day CPD course examines this key Foundation subject, demonstrating how to support all children to develop skills, knowledge, curiosity and a depth of understanding.

Raising Attainment in Primary History

This fast-paced and practical one-day CPD course shares a vision of history that will engage and inspire primary children, but also set them up with the analytical and critical skills that are vital for modern life.

Raising Attainment in Primary Music

Research has linked music education to improvements in working memory, language acquisition, spelling, concentration, effort, behaviour and wellbeing. But it is also an important subject in its own right, and it develops children’s “cultural capital”.

Raising Attainment in Primary R.E.

Discover simple but effective strategies to support children’s R.E. work. This engaging, practical CPD course will help you to link your R.E. provision to current developments in curriculum design and develop your pupils' love of the subject.

Raising Attainment in PSHE

In the 2020/21 academic year, teachers will have to teach two new compulsory subjects: Relationships Education and Health Education. This engaging, one-day CPD course tells you all you need to know about these changes.

Raising Attainment in Reading

Discover simple, effective ways to enhance children’s reading confidence and improve comprehension and word reading skills by attending this engaging and practical course.

Raising Attainment in Science

Learn creative, practical and achievable methods to raise standards in science and inspire primary scientists. This course will provide the confidence to teach outstanding primary science in a vibrant, interactive way that promotes enquiry and learning at greater depth.

Raising Attainment in Spelling

Discover a range of strategies, activities and games to build children’s confidence in spelling and help them be more adventurous with their vocabulary.

Raising Attainment in Writing

Raise standards in writing, help children generate creative ideas and broaden their vocabulary - with fun, practical and achievable methods that can be implemented straight away.

School Development Planning

Bring your School Development Plan along to this practical, informative workshop. We'll explore how to ensure that your SDP helps to drive school improvement and financial management on a day-to-day basis. You will leave this course with a strong understand of what makes an effective plan.

Storytelling in Maths

Storytelling in Maths recognises that many pupils struggle to effectively use vocabulary and language structures to explain and reason. This exciting, practical course will help you embed effective strategies for mathematical language acquisition to improve outcomes in maths as part of your daily teaching.

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Primary Schools

Teaching Modern Foreign Languages in Primary Schools is an inspiring course that will assist you in meeting the targets of the new Programme of Study for Languages. You will return to the classroom with engaging, interactive and challenging activities to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Writing Moderation Workshop: KS1 & KS2

Ensure you are confident in your assessment with this half-day Writing Moderation Workshop for KS1 and KS2.

Your School and the New Ofsted Inspection Framework

This course explores what the new Ofsted inspection framework could mean for your school and for your curriculum.