This half term has seen the re-launch of our face-to-face events at Gateway Alliance. It has been a joy to have our networks back together in the same room to provide valuable opportunities to explore and deepen practice with fantastic knowledgeable and inspirational speakers.
Our face-to-face events this half term included:
- SENCo conference: The Inclusive classroom-A new approach to differentiation, making it work in your school-Sara Alston and Distributed Leadership for SENCos -Kate Browning
- Curriculum CPD: History and Geography in Early Years-Day David Weatherley and Sheena Wright
- Curriculum CPD: Science-‘What’s new in Primary Science?’-Eleanor Atkinson
- English Conference: Reading for Pleasure-Teresa Cremin and Sonia Thompson
- Maths Conference: ‘Creating reasoning habits, building problem solvers’ -Gareth Metcalfe
- Curriculum CPD: Art-Reboot and refine: ‘How to deep dive, thrive and up-level your curriculum’- Emily Gopaul
- Learning & Teaching Conference: ‘Eat, sleep, teach, pause-rethinking how we do the every day, everyday’-Mark Creasy
- Early Years Conference: ‘Scaffolding the development of language and communication: Effective interactions in the early years’ – Julie Fisher
Additional precautions in response to Covid have ensured that our events have run as safely as possible and the feedback received has been tremendous.
‘It was brilliant to be back in a room with fellow maths leads – thank you so much Gateway for this! The content was fantastic. Excellent presentation and explanation of intended use and thoughts behind problem solving resources.’ Maths subject leader
‘Today has been BRILLIANT 🤩 The content was pitched perfectly and has given practical examples of how
we can promote reading for pleasure across our school.’ English subject leader
‘Content was very pertinent to current focus in school. Delivery excellent. The chance to be with ‘real
people’ made things so much more relevant and interesting.’ SENCo
‘Really insightful. Loved the sketchbook examples and that it was so interactive. Lots of takeaways that I can’t wait to share back with my colleagues’ Art subject leader
‘The content was very useful – lots to think about and some great ideas to feed back to staff. Mark was amazing! Very knowledgeable and engaging’ RQT