Participants will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of fluency, examine how oracy can be developed using fluency games and become familiar with a range of games that can be adapted to consolidate and apply mental strategies.
15 January 2025 at 09:30Duration: Until 15:30
30 places remaining
Edgar Wood Academy
Heywood Old Road, Heywood, OL10 2QN
Our regular School Breakfast Briefings provide a valuable opportunity for school leaders from all sectors—nursery, primary, secondary, and special—to stay informed and connected.
These sessions offer the latest updates on key activities within the school service, including OFSTED and DfE information, and give leaders a chance to engage directly with local authority officers and colleagues.
The briefings are designed to improve communication, transparency, and information sharing, while fostering networking opportunities.
Each session concludes with a Q&A, encouraging open dialogue and collaboration across the Rochdale education community.
ELKLAN courses are designed to help support the communication skills of all children and young people - as well as those with identified speech, language and communication needs.
The training will consist of 10 half day sessions delivered by accredited teaching and learning advisers. Please see the attached for an overview of the sessions.
Each person taking the course will need to have the Elklan Language Builders 5-11s book to support their learning https://www.elklan.co.uk/resources/language-builders-series/language-builders. The LA will provide one book per school.
Schools can fund their member of staff to be accredited at a cost of £72.50 per learner. Accredited staff will have weekly tasks to complete with a learning log that will need marking. The marking will be £90 per learning log, in total £162.50 per learner
Places on this course will be delegated on a first come basis. To secure places for your school please complete and return the agreement form which is available from REAL Trust (info@realtrust.org.uk)
16 January 2025 at 09:15Duration: Until 12:15
14 places remaining
Edgar Wood Academy
Heywood Old Road, Heywood, OL10 2QN
This supervision session is available to those who have completed the 3 Connect to Communicate training days in the summer term and wish to seek support to enable them to continue to develop their practice using the Connect to Communicate approach
Delegates can attend supervision on 19th Sep AM OR 16th Jan PM
The session will be split into 3 x1 hour slots and delegates will be allocated a place prior to the day
16 January 2025 at 12:30Duration: Until 15:30
30 places remaining
Edgar Wood Academy
Heywood Old Road, Heywood, OL10 2QN
This course will include 6 meetings each year initially –one per half term, and its purpose is to bring Primary School Music Subject Leaders together to share information, resources and good practice.
If you want to continue to develop your music leadership and indeed the musical opportunities you offer to your students, this is the course for you
16 January 2025 at 13:00Duration: Until 15:00
29 places remaining
Rochdale Music Service
7-11 The Butts, Rochdale , OL16 1XT
The DSL network is a termly opportunity for DSL’s and safeguarding staff in school to come together to share learning and to catch up on all of the updates in the world of safeguarding in school.
This session will focus on the National Curriculum science content requirements for animals including humans and how it progresses throughout KS1 and KS2.
It will highlight and address common misconceptions.