Leading Learning

in Our Schools

Professional Development Conference

5 January 2015
Huntington Secondary School

North East York Partnership

Leading Learning in Our Schools
Monday 5 January 2015
"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."
Bertolt Brecht

Programme
8.30-9.00 am:

Registration & coffee

9.00-9.30:

Keynote Speakers: Tom Bennett, Teacher and founder of ResearchED & David
Weston, founder and Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust

9.30-9.35:

Good Teaching according to our own students

9.45-10.30:

Session 1

10.30-11.00:

Coffee

11.00-11.45:

Session 2

11.55-12.35 pm:

Session 3

12.35-1.45:

Lunch & networking

1.45-2.30:

Session 4

2.30-3.30:

Individual school-based reflection and action planning

About our Keynote Speakers

Tom Bennett: Tom has written four books about education: The Behaviour Guru, Not Quite a Teacher, Teacher,
and Teacher Proof. In 2011 he was a Teacher-Fellow at Corpus Christi, University of Cambridge, where he
discovered something about education that he nearly missed entirely: that the teacher voice is an important
one, and it was sorely lacking in the public discourse about schools, learning and children. And he thought he
should try to do something about it. In 2013 he founded researchED, a cottage movement that grew over night
into a skyscraper, mainly because he was fed up with the mad free-for-all that seemed to constitute evidencebased practice in schools in the UK. It seems that a few other people agreed. researchED is very much Toms
baby, in that it keeps him awake at night, it's a source of infinite joy, and he hope it grows into something
wonderful. So far, so good. In 2014 Huntington School hosted researchED in York; 2015 will see researchED in
New York.
David Weston: David Weston is the founder and Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust, the national
charity for effective professional development in schools and colleges. He founded the Trust in 2012 after
spending nine years as a secondary school mathematics and physics teacher and experiencing a growing
frustration with the way that teachers are developed across the school system. Since its launch, David has
steered the Trust to be one of the foremost voices in education on the subject of professional development. He
has written extensively in the TES, Guardian, SecEd and a number of other education journals and works closely
with stakeholders across the sector including government ministers and policy makers. Davids background
includes consultancy around effective use of data in schools and he has written textbook materials in
mathematics and physics. David is currently a primary school governor in North London and a Visiting Fellow at
the Institute of Education.
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Personalising Your Conference Day

There are four sessions and 13 workshops/presentations per session.
What you need to do is read through the descriptions of the workshops and
choose a first, second and third choice for each session, in order of
preference. Then you need to complete a hard copy of the Delegate
Workshop Choice Form on page 11 and return it to your Headteacher who
will then pass it onto Kate Barnes at Huntington School to process. Your form
should look something like this:

Once we have all the completed forms we will allocate

workshops/presentations according to colleagues choices and the capacity
we have for each session. We will then be able to send each school a
definitive list of workshops/presentations for their individual teachers before
we break for Christmas.

Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered to contribute it promises to

be a great conference!
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North East York Partnership: Workshop Plan Session One

Code

Workshop
Title

Key
Stage(s)

S1W1

How can CPD

have greater
impact on
student
outcomes?

S1W2

Teaching the
most able

All

S1W3

Planning and
delivering ball
game
sessions in
primary
school.

Primary

S1W4

Assemble an
ensemble!

EYFS, 1&2

S1W5

Active
learning with
a science
focus

1&2

All

S1W6

Effective
Assessment

2-5

S1W7

Using
Colourful
Semantics to
support
writing

1&2

Workshop Summary
Can you remember when a CPD experience
actually changed what you do in the classroom so
that it improved your pupils performance because
your teaching was better? If you can, then youll
be in the minority! This talk by David Weston
explores how to ensure that every minute of your
CPD counts in schools. Not to be missed!
A rising tide lifts all ships. This session offers a
series of practical tips for planning and delivering
lessons that create both challenge and
engagement. The aim is to ensure high quality
delivery for our most able as well as developing
strategies that can be used more broadly across all
classes to ensure we teach to the top ability band
and scaffold the steps to successful learning that
create as well as cater for the most able
learners.
A guide on how to plan a series of ball game
sessions putting skills into practice. The session
will include practical examples so wear your
trainers!

A practical session to demonstrate ensemble

singing. This kind of singing promotes group work,
positive relationships, concentration and musical
knowledge.
Active learning promotes a high level of pupil
engagement; this session looks specifically at
engaging pupils in science.
Are we marking effectively? This session begins
with a look at the bad habits we can all fall into
while trying to mark well and then offers a series
of practical suggestions for creating sustainable
cycles of assessment that involve learners. The
emphasis in the session is on working smarter, not
working longer.
Colourful Semantics is a tool used by Speech and
Language Therapists to support children's
sentence structure. This workshop looks at how
this technique has been used to support SEN and
Lower Ability children to develop their writing.

Presenter/School
David Weston,
CEO of the
Teacher
Development
Trust & the
National Teacher
Enquiry Network

Elaine Armstrong
& Ryan Wilson
/The Joseph
Rowntree School

Gareth Jones &

Ryan Qualter/
Robert Wilkinson
Morna Lamb/Park
Grove Primary
School
Emma Davies &
Becky Pilgrim/
Robert Wilkinson

Gareth Davies/The
Joseph Rowntree
School

Catherine
Jordan/Wigginton

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Workshop
Title

Key
Stage(s)

3&4

Demonstrate how to build in the use pictures and

videos as an effective creative writing stimulus.
Look at the impact of media resources when
teaching sentence structure, composition and
effect.
How to adapt activities and resources to capture
children from Early Years to Year 8.
Effective teaching is as much about originality as it
is about consistency and certainty. This session
will explore the power of establishing clear
expectations in a range of areas (including
assessment and behaviour management) and will
aim to pass on a range of successful habits that
can be adapted in any classroom setting.
Find out how one Food teacher uses pair work
effectively and bake some jam tarts whilst youre
at it!

1&2

Find out how the successful Ebor Alliance Schools

Direct programme could work in your school

S1W8

Using ICT in
Creative
Writing

Early
years,
primary
and lower
secondary

S1W9

Embedding
successful
routines in
the classroom

2-5

Using pair
work in Food
S1W10 Technology to
improve
learning
How Schools
S1W11 Direct works
in schools

Workshop Summary

S1W12

Effective
Middle
Leadership

All

S1W13

Ideas for
assemblies:
using whole
school
assemblies to
support
achievement

1&2

From building a consistent vision, tackling conflict,

and embedding successful leadership routines,
this session will set out a series of strategies for
leading purposefully and successfully. This session
is suitable to those leading departments as well as
taking forward key initiatives across a whole
school.
From Meditation Mondays through to Failure is
not an option Fridays, here are a weeks worth of
ideas for a coherent approach to assemblies which
will help raise achievement.

Presenter/School
Richard Robinson
(AHT & Y6) Laura
Woodward (AHT &
EYFS)/Haxby Road
Primary Academy

Ben Coleman /The

Joseph Rowntree
School

Garry Littlewood
Huntington
Secondary
Rachel
Williamson/Robert
Wilkinson School

Richard Crane
/The Joseph
Rowntree School

Carole
Dickson/New
Earswick

North East York Partnership: Workshop Plan Session Two

Code

S2W1

Workshop
Key
Title
Stage(s)
The Guide to
Everything
All
about
Behaviour
Management!

S2W2

SEND matters
in your school

All

S2W3

Using preteaching to
raise
attainment

1&2

S2S4

Leading your
department

S2W5

Mini-tips for
making ICT
help
students
learning

All

S2W6

Improving
SPAG

S2W7

Using Stories
in Maths

S2W8

Reciprocal
Reading

S2W9

My first year
as an NQT

3-5

EYFS, KS1
and KS2
or can be
tailored
to a
specific
age
group if
required
2 (but
also KS1
readers
level 2b+)
Primary

Workshop Summary
Tom Bennett tells it like it is about managing
behaviour in your classroom. Let the TES
Behaviour Guru entertain you and pick up some
priceless tips about keeping order so everyone
can learn. Essential listening
Gail Naish is SENCO and in this workshop she
explains how she has worked hard over the past
two years to ensure that the needs of SEND
students are in the forefront of teachers minds
when they are planning lessons.
Here you will gain a full understanding of preteaching and what the evidence tells us about its
effectiveness in raising attainment, how preteaching has been used at NEPS and its impact on
pupil outcomes.
How do you lead your department so that
growing great teachers in order to improve the
quality of teaching and so raise pupil outcomes is
the over-riding priority for you and your
departmental colleagues? Share your ideas with
Jane Elsworth, AHT, Subject Leader and
Geography SLE.
ICT is not the answer to anything, but it can, used
with wisdom, help enhance any subject. In this
session pick up some handy tips about how ICT
can help you teach and students learn without
you having to be remotely ICT literate!
Ideas and ICT resources to support spelling and
grammar in Key Stage 2.
We will look at how stories can be used to
support mathematical learning from Early Years
through to Key Stage 2.

Implementing and impact of reciprocal reading on

raising pupil motivation and progress from the
perspective of a teacher and teaching assistant
In this session Becky Troy reflects upon her first
year in teaching and shares what shes learnt,
what she thought went well and what she would
differently if she had the chance!
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Presenter/School
Tom Bennett,
teacher, writer and
founder of
researchED
Gail Naish
Huntington
Secondary

Carole Dickson
/New Earswick

Jane Elsworth
Huntington
Secondary

Karl Elwell
Huntington
Secondary
Rachel Keaney &
Alice Bream/Robert
Wilkinson

Vicky Hearson/Park
Grove Primary
School

Liz Daniel & Simon

Keaney/ Ralph
Butterfield Primary
School
Becky Troy/Yearsley
Grove

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Workshop
Title

Key
Stage(s)

S2W10

Guided
reading

1&2

S2W11

Memorise
this!

All

S2W12

Nine
requirements
of the new
History
Curriculum
that will
challenge and
inspire your
pupils (with a
helping hand
from
archaeology!)

Primary

S2W13

Striking
impact in
tutor time

3-5

Workshop Summary
In this session we will be sharing how Wigginton
Primary implements Guided Reading. Well be
looking at timetables, activities, planning and
assessment. It is an opportunity for other schools
to share their good practice and resources.
In this workshop Julie Watson, Psychology Subject
Leader and memory expert explains how our
memories work and how to help children to
remember what they are learning.
Interpreting nine key features of the new Primary
History Curriculum, challenging preconceptions
and suggesting a range of ways to tackle History in
the classroom. Also illustrating where
Archaeology and archaeological understanding
can provide an important foundation when
tackling different topics and encouraging
historical enquiry methods.

Just as breakfast is the most important meal of

the day, tutor time sets our students up for what
the coming day has to offer. In this session we
will look at how to create varied, purposeful tutor
time experiences that make this shared time a
valid and learning-focused start to a successful
day.

Presenter/School
Kate
Robinson/Wigginton

Julie Watson
Huntington
Secondary

The JORVIK GROUP

Val Cox and Pip

Doust /The Joseph
Rowntree School

North East York Partnership: Workshop Plan Session Three

Code

Workshop
Title

S3W1

Becoming a
better teacher
by finding out
what really
works!

S3W2

Making
History fun!

S3W3

Developing
links between
teachers and
teaching
assistants

S3W4

S3W5

Practical Ideas
for the use of
globes and
maps
Life after
levels in a
Growth
Mindset
school

Key
Stage(s)

All

All

All

1&2

S3W6

Resilience
matters

All

S3W7

An
introduction
to trioteaching to
develop
Outstanding
practice

All

S3W8

How to teach
phonics

All

Workshop Summary
Time is precious. We like to try new things to
become better teachers, but what if we are
wasting our time by working on strategies that are
unlikely to prove worthy of our precious energy?
There is some good evidence out there to show us
the best way to develop our practice - across all
key stages. This session is a practical look at what
aspects of your teaching you should be looking to
improve upon to become a better teacher.
Learning History is the most fun thing you can
imagine so believes Huw Richards! In this
workshop Huw explains how he teaches History
laced with laughter!
Led by two Teaching Assistants from the Joseph
Rowntree School, this session offers a practical
perspective on how to get the most out of support
in the classroom. Suitable for teachers and TAs
alike, the session outlines strategies for planning,
intervening, and following up with learners to
ensure effective outcomes.
Making maps and globes fun and interesting to
develop pupils mapping skills.

Now that NC levels have all but disappeared, hear

how Huntington Secondary is assessing students at
KS3 as they develop a Growth Mindset culture.

Penny Hall grew up in a family whose mantra was

there is no such thing as failure just success and
learning. Her workshop explores resilience
strategies for the classroom to raise attainment.
Rachel Clarke has led on Trio-Teaching at TJRS for
the last term with the aim of discovering the
practical strategies that all teachers can deploy to
make their delivery reach the highest standards.
In this session she will discuss how Trio-Teaching
works and explain how to set up a similar
community in your own school.
The often misunderstood strategy for teaching
children how to read explained.

S3W9

Presenter/School

Alex Quigley
Huntington
Secondary

Huw Richards
Huntington
Secondary

Joanne Gears &

Alice Lawrenson
/The Joseph
Rowntree School

Rachel
Cummings/Robert
Wilkinson
John Tomsett
Huntington
Secondary
Penny Hall
Huntington
Secondary

Rachel Clarke
/The Joseph
Rowntree School

Janie
White/Yearsley
Grove

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S3W10

S3W11

Workshop
Title
Effective
learning and
progress in
EYFS
Why run a
parenting
programme
when we
teach
children?

Key
Stage(s)
Reception

All

S3W12

Leading on
effective
intervention

All

S3W13

Inclusive
Teaching

2-5

Workshop Summary
Strategies for encouraging and ensuring children
develop the EYFS strand of being an effective
learner.
Strengthening Families; Strengthening
Communities: A Parenting Programme
How to set up and run a parenting programme.
How to recruit parents. The referral process. The
impact on parents, the impact on children, the
impact on school, the impact on the community.
Suitable for aspiring and existing middle leaders
and senior leaders, this session aims to explore
some of the steps needed to create striking impact
in intervention. From effective data handling and
monitoring to hands-on strategies such as
Assertive Mentoring, the aim is to create a toolkit
that can be applied to any school setting.
The latest changes to SEN have put responsibility
for the progress of students with Special Needs
directly with the classroom teacher. This session
will outline the strategies and systems that need
to be adopted at classroom level to make sure that
all learners have the opportunity to make
outstanding progress.

Presenter/School
Kirsten Griffiths/
Ralph Butterfield
Primary School
Sharon Hood
(Family Liaison
Worker)/Haxby
Road Primary
Academy

Gary Martin &

Alan Hayden /The
Joseph Rowntree
School

Tanya Elsworth
/The Joseph
Rowntree School

North East York Partnership: Workshop Plan Session Four

Code

Workshop
Title

Key
Stage(s)

S4W1

High
Standards of
Literacy &
Numeracy

S4W2

Getting the
most out of
Performance
Management

All

S4W3

The role of a
reading
champion:
engaging and
enthusing
young
readers

Primary

S4W4

S4W5

S4W6

Read All
About It:
Setting up a
successful
and
sustainable
school
newspaper by children
and for
children.
BBC (Boys
Book Club):
Hooking Y6
boys into
reading,
without
them
realising.
Behaviour
management
and student
engagement:
mastering
the difficult
class

All

Primary

Primary

All

Workshop Summary
While your subject might not rely explicitly on
skills in literacy and numeracy, a students ability
to write accurately and apply key mathematical
concepts has become even more important in
helping them achieve highly. This session aims to
provide a range of strategies to help keep on top
of a childs accuracy and competency but also
show how to tangibly improve the quality of
outcomes in extended and independent work.
The Performance Management process can be
developmental if you get the purpose and the
process aligned and make sure Performance
Related Pay doesnt get in the way!
This session aims to provide Literacy leaders in
schools with effective and innovative ways to
engage children in reading for enjoyment and
purpose. It is a whole school approach, which has
incorporated special events (such as visits from
well-known authors), developing leadership roles
for children (such as library monitors and poetry
ninjas) and raising the profile of reading generally
in school.
This session aims to provide schools with top tips
about how to set up a school newspaper which is
owned by children. It will cover how ipads and
other technology can be used effectively to
support the process; enabling children to become
self-sufficient in the reporting, editing and
publishing process.

This session aims to share with Y6 teachers and

teaching assistants some top tips about how reengage boys who have fallen out of love with
reading. The work undertaken has been with boys
who achieved at least a Level 2C in reading at KS1
yet were at risk of not achieving Level 4 by the
end of Y6.
This workshop aims to share a series of practical
strategies to help reform a challenging class! This
will include key issues such as: developing the
perfect seating plan; simple strategies to solve
conflict; unlocking the power of praise; and
building positive, constructive relationships.
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Presenter/School

Sian Richardson &

Russell Bowry /The
Joseph Rowntree
School

Nigel Currie
Huntington
Secondary

Katie Dennison/
Headlands

Neil
Bromley/Headlands

Sarah
Wright/Headlands

Andrew Haigh &

Abigail
Gatherer/The
Joseph Rowntree
School

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Workshop
Title

Key
Stage(s)

S4W7

Enterprise in
the Primary
Classroom

Primary

S4W8

An
Introduction
to
Attachment
(Resilience)

All

S4W9

S4W10

S4W11

Sum Fun
maths
assessment
puzzles for
the 2014
curriculum
Numeracy:
using
whiteboard
packs to
support pupil
engagement
Reciprocal
Read 2

1&2

EYFS and 1

S4W12

Fun, fast
phonics!

EYFS and 1

S4W13

Learning
through play
in Areas of
Provision in
EYFS

EYFS and 1

Workshop Summary
This workshop explores how we can develop our
pupils enterprise skills in the primary classroom
to help raise attainment and get everyone
thinking creatively for themselves.
Understand how behaviours impacting on learning
may be the result of problems affecting the child,
and learn about what can be done in class to
support such children.

Using the Sum Fun series to assess maths skills

according to the new Year Group objectives from
the 2014 curriculum.

Warm ups and calculation introductions can be

supported by using packs on which all pupils
record their thinking or their working. Useful for
instant feedback, scaffolding learning and number
routines.
Implementing and impact of reciprocal reading on
raising pupil motivation and progress from the
perspective of a teacher and teaching assistant
We will look at the overview of phases 1-6 of
letters and sounds. We will look at phase 5 in
detail to prepare children for the phonics
screening check in Year 1. We will discuss short
activities to get children engaged and active
within phonics sessions.
We will look at the ways in which young children
engage with their learning through play and
exploring. Well consider how active learning
motivates children and helps them learn in a fun
and creative way.

10

Presenter/School
Anne Foreman &
Ann McKeown
/Huntington
Primary School
Karen Doyle
(Family and Pupil
Support Team
Leader)
Lesley Thompson
(SENDco & Head of
ERP)/Haxby Road
Primary Academy
Katherine
Bennett/New
Earswick

Helen Davids &

Chris Evans/ Robert
Wilkinson
Laura Grayson &
Leanne
Jackson/Yearsley
Grove
Emily Plews and Jill
Campbell/Park
Grove Primary
School

Caroline Knighton
& Tess Primarolo/
Wigginton

North East York Partnership Professional Development Conference, 5 January 2015

WORKSHOP LOCATIONS
Session

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

S1W1
S1W2
83
66
P02/03 P05/06

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

Workshop
Number
Room

S1W3
13
P23

S1W4
18
C13

S1W5
19
C15

S1W6
58
P07/08

S1W7
132
HALL

S1W8
37
C12

S1W9
36
C16

S1W10
14
J18

S1W11
7
P12

S1W12
25
P13

S1W13
5
P14

S2W1
210
HALL

S2W2
29
P23

S2W3
19
C12

S2W4
11
C15

S2W5
19
C16

S2W6
25
C13

S2W7
48
P05/06

S2W8
9
P11

S2W9
7
P12

S2W10 S2W11 S2W12

30
84
11
P07/08 P02/03
P13

S2W13
10
P14

S3W2
36
P23

S3W3
70
P05/06

S3W4
12
C15

S3W5
23
C16

S3W6
55
P07/08

S3W7
22
P11

S3W8
77
P02/03

S3W9

S3W1
89
HALL

S3W10
35
C13

S3W11
17
P13

S3W12
31
P14

S3W13
44
C12

S4W1
47
P05/06

S4W2
20
C15

S4W3
16
C16

S4W4
17
P11

S4W5
20
C13

S4W6
117
HALL

S4W7
16
P12

S4W8
97
P02/03

S4W9
33
P23

S4W10
14
P13

S4W11
17
P14

S4W12 S4W13
41
47
C12
P07/08

2.303.30

HS
Hall
118

TJRS
P02/03
91

B&B
P11
17

HR
P12
31

Heads
P13
31

Hunt P
P14
30

NE
P23
25

PG
C11
26

RB
C12
19

RW
P05/06
80

SotF
C13
9

Wigg
C15
21

YG
P07/08
34

Haxby Road Primary Academy

Headlands Primary School
Huntington Primary School
Huntington Secondary School
New Earswick Primary School
Park Grove Primary School
Ralph Butterfield School
Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy
Stockton on the Forest Primary School
The Joseph Rowntree Secondary School
Wigginton Primary School
Yearsley Grove Primary School