About this event

WCF and partners who specialise in supporting mental health and wellbeing across Worcestershire are working together to provide a programme of CPD and support for Designated Mental Health Leads (DMHL) across all educational settings in Worcestershire. DMHL termly network meetings will form part of this support where current information regarding services can be shared and staff development workshops can be delivered.

Free to attend

Primary focussed

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On average, 1 in every 29 children will be bereaved of a parent or sibling. That’s one in every class. Yet many professionals receive no bereavement training and are unsure how to support grieving children and young people in their care. This collaboration between Winston’s Wish and Worcestershire Public Health will provide an overview of some of the issues around childhood bereavement. We aim to build your skills and confidence in supporting children and young people.

COVID-19 has resulted in many children and young people experiencing unexpected bereavement. In addition, children and young people have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Attendees will have an understanding of:
• The impact of bereavement on children and young people (including traumatic bereavement)
• Developmental variations of grief - how the age and stage of a child’s development can affect the way in which they grieve
• The needs of bereaved children
• What do I say? How do I help?: Practical ideas and activities for supporting children with their grief

The training will focus on either first/primary ages or middle/secondary/college ages.

Max 1 place per school – numbers will be monitored, and any additional bookings made will be moved to the waiting list

About this event

On average, 1 in every 29 children will be bereaved of a parent or sibling. That’s one in every class. Yet many professionals receive no bereavement training and are unsure how to support grieving children and young people in their care. This collaboration between Winston’s Wish and Worcestershire Public Health will provide an overview of some of the issues around childhood bereavement. We aim to build your skills and confidence in supporting children and young people.

COVID-19 has resulted in many children and young people experiencing unexpected bereavement. In addition, children and young people have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Attendees will have an understanding of:
• The impact of bereavement on children and young people (including traumatic bereavement)
• Developmental variations of grief - how the age and stage of a child’s development can affect the way in which they grieve
• The needs of bereaved children
• What do I say? How do I help?: Practical ideas and activities for supporting children with their grief

The training will focus on either first/primary ages or middle/secondary/college ages.

Max 1 place per school – numbers will be monitored, and any additional bookings made will be moved to the waiting list

About this event

INTENT is a smoking prevention programme delivered as 2x hour long lessons each year for 4 years, from Y7 to Y10 which reduces smoking initiation by engaging adolescents with anti-smoking messages. They then create Personal Plans (or “Implementation Intentions”) about how to refuse an offer of cigarettes. More information can be found here https://intent.evidencetoimpact.com/

Schools wishing to access this programme are required to ensure that:
1. all staff delivering the lessons attend a 1 hour training session
2. they feedback annually on the numbers of pupils who receive the sessions and
3. deliver the programme as per the training to ensure that the outcomes in schools are the same as the research trial.
Please note the above are requirements of the INTENT license

Audience: Teachers in middle and secondary schools (Y7 to Y10) who will be delivering the INTENT programme and lessons to pupils.

Cost: Free to attend

Delivery: Virtual, via MS Teams, with joining instructions issued with your CPD confirmation

Trainers will be either Clare Charlton or Lisa Bradbury

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Rich opportunities for writing to support end of year assessment in Year 2
This session will focus on sequences of learning which will quickly and effectively generate lots of writing opportunities in a short space of time. This will help teachers to modify and adapt their curriculum offer in order to maximise opportunities for evidence, when making internal judgements at the end of the year.

The session will review a quality text and consider an outline of a sequence which can be adapted to the needs of their own class.

Trainer - Rachael Baldwin

Cost - £26 + VAT

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Audience – Anyone exploring outdoors with 3–5-year-olds!

Focus: - Discovering ways to develop and encourage language development in the outdoor environment when the children are fully immersed in their chosen play.

Course information
The outside environment is a great way to develop and encourage language development. Exploring the world around them allows children to learn and practise using a wide vocabulary and helps them to develop a range of communication and language skills.
There is evidence to show that some children (and adults!) learn better than they do indoors.

The outdoor environment can be a highly motivational place for the development of communication skills. Motivation will stimulate the use and development of communication skills, but children must first experience the desire to express their thoughts, feelings, ideas, and intentions.

We know that children learn best through activities and experiences that involve all of their senses, and the outdoor environment can provide more freedom and space to engage in creative activities – such as music, dance, rhymes and songs – that also support language development.

During this course we will consider the many exciting ways that we can help children develop their communication and language skills at the same time as adding to their knowledge and understanding of the world around them, and of course I’m sure we will mention the importance of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning at some point as well!

Please come dressed appropriately as part of the course will hopefully take place outside – that is not an April fool comment!

Cost - £30 + VAT per delegate
Trainer - Gill Deakin

About this event

This session will focus on sequences of learning which will quickly and effectively generate lots of writing opportunities in a short space of time. This will help teachers to modify and adapt their curriculum offer in order to maximise opportunities for evidence, when making internal judgements at the end of the year. Each session will give delegates a choice of quality texts, a theme and an outline of a sequence which can be adapted to the needs of their own class.

Trainer - Rachael Baldwin

Cost - £26 + VAT

About this event

This session will focus on sequences of learning which will quickly and effectively generate lots of writing opportunities in a short space of time. This will help teachers to modify and adapt their curriculum offer in order to maximise opportunities for evidence, when making internal judgements at the end of the year. Each session will give delegates a choice of quality texts, a theme and an outline of a sequence which can be adapted to the needs of their own class.

Trainer - Rachael Baldwin

Cost - £26 + VAT

About this event

This session will focus on sequences of learning which will quickly and effectively generate lots of writing opportunities in a short space of time. This will help teachers to modify and adapt their curriculum offer in order to maximise opportunities for evidence, when making internal judgements at the end of the year. Each session will give delegates a choice of quality texts, a theme and an outline of a sequence which can be adapted to the needs of their own class.

Trainer - Rachael Baldwin

Cost - £26 + VAT

About this event

This session will focus on sequences of learning which will quickly and effectively generate lots of writing opportunities in a short space of time. This will help teachers to modify and adapt their curriculum offer in order to maximise opportunities for evidence, when making internal judgements at the end of the year. Each session will give delegates a choice of quality texts, a theme and an outline of a sequence which can be adapted to the needs of their own class.

Trainer - Rachael Baldwin

Cost - £26 + VAT