Wokingham Secondary Federation Teachers Conference Day 28Th February 2014

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Wokingham Secondary Federation Teachers Conference Day 28th February 2014

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Subject Venue Conference Lead Page :

Art The Piggott School Brian Murphy 3

Business Studies Wellington College Mogford, Alex 4 Careers Leads The Forest School Carol Ryall 5

Drama The Holt School Susie Ferguson 6

English University of Reading Caroline Crolla 7

Geography Wellington College John Kinniburgh 9 History Waingels College Emma Windiate 11 ICT The Piggott School Adam Hamflett 12 Librarians The Emmbrook School Barbara Band 15

Maths Thales Mark Wade 16 MFL The Piggott School Matt Connors 17 Music University of Reading James Garnett 18

Network Managers The Forest School Ali Bovis 19

PE Waingels College Reahgan Quartermaine 20

Psychology & Sociology The Holt School Mira Dakovic 21 Religious Studies Waingels College Stephen Vegh 22 School Business Managers Wellington College Janet Perry 23 Science The Holt School Phillipa Dunn 24 SENCOs & TAs The Bulmershe School Jill Maher 28

Senior Leaders The Holt School Anne Kennedy 29

Technology The Forest School Chris Elsey 31

Conference for Art and Design Teachers

Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum Conference Lead Brian Murphy

Focus of the Day - Inspiration for Teachers

9.am Leave from The Piggott School

10.30 Arrive at the Victoria and Albert Museum Coffee 11.00 - 12.00 Talk and Tour

12.00 - 2.30 Tour museum independently or in groups and lunch.

2.30 Leave

4.00 Arrive at The Piggott School

3 Conference for Business Studies and Economics Teachers Venue: Wellington College Duke’s Ride, Crowthorne, Berkshire, RG457PU Conference Lead - Alex Mogford

8:45 – 9 am – Welcome coffee

Session 1– Using Effective and Efficient Resources in Economics and Business  This session will give us a chance to explore resources that we find useful and effective in the Economics classroom and think about how we might be more efficient in our use of resources.  This would be an excellent opportunity to share resources.

10:15 – 10:45am – Break

Session 2 – What makes an outstanding lesson in Economics or Business?  A chance to have an open and detailed discussion about what we think makes an outstanding lesson in Economics. A great opportunity for us to learn from each and share our best ideas.  The purpose here is to be open and honest, I hope we won’t just recite Ofsted criteria but fully explore what, in our experience, constitutes excellence in an economics or business lesson.

12:45 – 1:30pm Lunch

Session 3 – Using Harkness and debate in Economics and Business  Harkness lessons are pupil-centred and encourage exploration and debate. They seem a perfect fit for economics and Business. However, they can be a little daunting and they can go wrong. A chance for us to explore the purpose of Harkness; how it fits into economics; and learn from the many mistakes that I have made using Harkness.

Session 4 – How do you motivate students of Business Studies?  One of the biggest problems I encounter in Business studies is keeping the interest and focus of the pupils from one lesson to the next.  For a subject that should be so applicable to their lives I find that too often I am getting bogged down in content and/or examination technique and lose the interest of my pupils.

Careers Leads Conference Meeting Statutory Responsibilities Venue: The Forest School – Enterprise Hub Robinhood lane, Winnershe, Wokingham, G415NE Conference Lead: Carol Ryall

Focus of the Day: How do we meet Ofsted’s CIAG requirements?

9.00 Coffee & Registration

9.30 Ofsted/DfE CIAG requirements – an overview of where we are now

10.30 Investors in Careers – meeting the quality standard in your school

11.30 Coffee

11.45 An introduction to Adviza services including a trial of Morrisby psychometric testing– a valuable tool for parents and students. Details of lesson plans and games available, along with the introduction of a new careers qualification. 13.00 Lunch

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Conference for Drama Teachers Venue: The Holt School Holt lane, Wokingham RG411EE Conference Lead - Susie Ferguson introducing a wider range of directorial approaches for GCSE and A Level, Delegates need appropriate clothes for practical work for the Drama session . They may also wish to bring smartphones or tablets . 8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9-10.15 Practical session: Kneehigh 10.15-10.30 Coffee 10.30-11.00 Practical session: Kneehigh cont’d

11.00-12.30 Practical session: Melly Still and Katie Mitchell 12.30-1.30 Lunch & informal discussion 1.30 GCSE Drama: Reflection and sharing good practice for the written and practical elements. Please bring schemes of work and other resources that you are willing to share. 3.00 End

Conference for English Teachers Venue: University of Reading

Institute of Education, London Road Campus, 4 Redlands Road, Reading (for Sat Navs use RG1 5AQ) Building L22 Room GO3 Conference Lead - Caroline Crolla

Focus of the Day “Reinvigorate English”

8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9.00 Keynote Reinvigorate KS3 - Andrew McCallum, (English & Media Centre) Discuss ways of enhancing our lively and challenging curriculum to include existing core elements with new emphasis on aspects of grammar, vocabulary, Standard English, formal debating, author study and world literature in English.

10.00 Workshops, A, C, D, E,G, 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Workshops A,B,C D, E,G, 12.30 Lunch 1.15 Workshops A, B, C, E, F, 2.15 Department time 3.15 Depart

Workshop A Creative Writing- Simon Wrigley Simon Wrigley was chair of NATE 2004-6. He was English adviser in Bedfordshire 1994-2003 and Buckinghamshire 2004-2013. He is now Outreach Director for NATE's writing project: nwp.org.uk. This practical workshop shares some of the NWP findings by giving teachers the chance to write, and to reflect on the writing process. We will discuss what happens in classrooms where teachers write alongside students - and where students take greater ownership of their writing.

Workshop B What the Levels look like—Nici Hunt , The Holt School , WBC English AST This is a Key Stage 3 levelling activity. The first workshop will explore levels 3-5 and the second workshop levels 6-8. Please can delegates attending each workshop provide at least 5 pieces of work to reflect the range of levels. These workshops will be a collaborative exercise and will seek to create exemplar materials that can be photocopied and distributed to schools.

Workshop C An Introduction to Cambridge English and English Literature IGCSE Julia Turkington, Head of English at the Abbey School Cambridge IGCSE English Literature examiner and IB examiner.

Workshop D Reading for life – Rosemary Woodman , Berkshire Education Library Service The workshops will look at the multiple advantages of reading for pleasure, implementing change within a school and new fiction titles to inspire reading. The Education Library Service will exhibit their new collection of books for Years 7 & 8, and a range of fiction titles for years 9+ .

Workshop E Digital Literacy in the English classroom – Richard Long, English AST - Newlands Participants will explore, discuss and be encouraged to understand why and how to incorporate digital literacy into the English class and find ways to draw on and develop pupils’ existing digital skills.

Workshop F Make Grammar and Punctuation fun! Ann Groves HoD English & Tracy Edwards, The Bulmershe School The workshop will introduce a range of strategies from Blind Date to Word Mate - tried and tested ways to teach the grammar of English language.

Workshop G Using Short stories at KS3 - Andrew McCallum, English & Media Centre Practical and active approaches to using short stories in the English classroom to encourage engagement and enjoyment of texts.

8 Duke's Ride, Crowthorne, West Berkshire RG45 7PU

Conference for Geography Teachers Venue: Wellington College Duke’s Ride, Crowthorne, West Berkshire RG457PU Conference Lead - John Kinniburgh, Head of Geography

John Kinniburgh is the Head of Geography at Wellington College and a proponent of the use and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. He previously taught Geography (and was Faculty Head) at The King’s School in Sydney, Australia, where he first introduced GIS in 1998. John has conducted and delivered over thirty GIS-focused workshops and presentations including the ESRI International Education User Conference in San Diego in 2003. He is currently completing a PhD at Macquarie University (Sydney) and is researching how and to what extent GIS enhances the conceptual understanding and higher order thinking skills of secondary Geography students. His research interests are GIS-based teaching strategies and mobile fieldwork data collection.

Guest Presenter: Jason Sawle, Education Consultant, Esri UK ([email protected])

Jason has been working on schools based GIS since 1997 in both the university and commercial sectors. At Canterbury Christ Church University he won funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to set up a GIS Unit where he managed projects aimed at removing the barriers that were preventing schools from fully engaging with GIS. This work culminated in the development of the Dakini Project in 2004, which was a £3.3m European Regional Development Fund project looking at how GIS could be used in secondary schools in Kent and Nord-Pas-de-Calais. In parallel to his university work Jason also estab- lished DigitalWorlds International Ltd and launched a new GIS for the schools market called Digital- Worlds. This was the first GIS for schools that was based on industry standard technology, but specially designed for use in schools. In 2009, DigitalWorlds was bought by Esri UK Ltd and Jason now runs their GIS for Schools programme on a not for profit basis as part of Esri UK's Corporate and Social Responsibility work.

Focus of the Day: GIS is an innovative technology that has the potential to facilitate inquiry and critical thinking in the Geography classroom. Geography teachers now have access to the most effective technology for solving geographic problems using spatial analysis and attendees will be shown exactly how it can be used to meet their curriculum needs in a series of practical sessions. This workshop will explore best practice and innovative use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and will explain the reasons why it should be used. A major focus of the day will be to show teachers the ease with which web-based GIS can enhance their teaching as well as the way mobile devices can be used to collect fieldwork data. A variety of speakers will highlight the potential of this powerful spatial mapping technology.

9 8.30 Coffee & Registration.

9:00 Welcome: John Kinniburgh, Head of Geography, Wellington College

9:10 Special Presentation: Jason Sawle, Education Consultant, Esri UK This session will introduce GIS technology and the broad role that it plays in society. Jason will talk about key developments in GIS that enable this powerful technology to be far more accessible to Geography teachers today. This presentation sets the ‘context’ of GIS in education and will lay the foundation for the workshops to be run later in the day. 9:30 Special Presentation: John Kinniburgh, Head of Geography, Wellington College This presentation will situate GIS in the context of Geographic Teaching & Learning with a particular focus on the pedagogical strategies that most effectively integrate GIS technology. This session will present ideas for using GIS both inside and outside the classroom and a key element will be to explore Bloom’s revised taxonomy as a framework for developing GIS-based lessons. 9:50 Coffee 10:10 Workshop 1: Investigating Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes using ArcGIS Online John Kinniburgh This session will introduce attendees to the ArcGIS Online platform and will show them how to create their own online GIS map for use in the classroom. The session will also provide instruc- tions for integrating earthquake and volcano data from the web. 11:15 Workshop 2: Mapping Census and Crime data using ArcGIS Online Jason Sawle This session will be focus on mapping census and crime data direct from the web using Esri’s Maps for Office application. Attendees will be shown how web-based data from a range of sites can easily be integrated into ArcGIS Online 12:20 Special Presentation: Exploring New York City with GIS Cat Goldsmith, Geography Teacher & Head of Lower 6th Form, Wellington College This special presentation will showcase a GIS-based unit of work that investigates New York City as a case study within the topic ‘Urban Environments’. In this exercise, students are required to apply their understanding of land use patterns as well as the distribution of socio- economic and ethnic groups to New York City. In particular they use GIS to explore and analyse geographic data as part of their investigation.

12:45 Lunch 1:30 Workshop 3: Collecting data in the field using mobile GIS Attendees will do a simple fieldwork exercise and use a free app (Collector) to collect data that can be analysed in ArcGIS Online. The fieldwork will be undertaken on the College grounds and will highlight the ease with which mobile devices can be used to collect fieldwork data.

2:15 Workshop 4: Analysing the fieldwork data This workshop will follow on from Workshop 3 and will provide attendees with the opportunity to analyse the data collected in the field. This data will be examined in more detail using the powerful analysis tools available in ArcGIS Online. 3.00 End

Conference for History Teachers Venue: Waingels College Waingels Road, Woodley, RG54RF Conference Lead - Emma Windiate Focus of the Day: Holocaust Training – Paul Salmons: (Institute of Education, Programme Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education) Paul is recognised as one of the leading figures in Holocaust education. Paul’s career began as a school teacher of history in 1993 before joining the Imperial War Museum London in 1998. Paul created the Holocaust education service for students and teachers visiting the Museum’s permanent Holocaust Exhibition, opened by HM Queen in June 2000. Paul is author of Reflections, a teaching resource pack that has won international acclaim, and is founder of the IWM’s Fellowship in Holocaust Education. Paul Salmons has represented the UK at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) since its inception, chaired the Education Working Group, which consists of experts from 27 member countries, and is currently chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's subcommittee on Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. He has acted as consultant on numerous international projects and was in- vited by the United Nations to create the educational materials for their International Holo- Waingels Rd, Woodley, Reading RG5 4RF caust Remembrance Day.

8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9:00 Authentic encounters 10:15 Coffee 10:45 Jewish life before the Holocaust 12:00 Lunch

12:30 Dynamic timeline 14:30 Resistance and Resilience 3.30 End

Conference for ICT /Computer Science Teacher Conference Lead - Adam Hamflett Venue: The Piggott School Twyford Rd, Wargrave, Reading RG108DS Getting ready for 2014

8.45 – 9.00 Tea and Coffee available. 9.00 – 9.10 Introduction to the day 9.10 – 9.30 Latest changes – A summary 9.30 – 10.40 Reading University – Outreach programmes 10.50 – 11.10 Break 11.10– 12.30 Working session 1 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch 1.30 to 2.50 Working session 2 2.50 to 3.00 Plenary

During the working sessions there will be a number of activities and workshops going on which staff can attend.

Working A B C Exploring session 1 Implementing Developing a new computing at KS4. KS3 scheme of computing work. possibilities Working D E F G Python for Inspiration for session 2 Implementing Finding the right computing at KS5. balance between beginners. computer science IT and computing.

Latest changes to ICT/Computing The first talk will be setting up the theme for the day and giving an overview of where we are currently with ICT and Computing. Speaker TBC. Reading University – Outreach programs Shirley Williams and Julie smith, from Reading University, will be introducing us all to some of the ex- citing projects that they are involved with. Shirley will be introducing us to online mobile app development course they are setting up for students (and staff). Julie will be introducing us to the CREST awards http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/crest-awards .

Working session 1 Workshop A Implementing computing at KS4 – Led by Adam Hamflett and Pat Bhattachrya Adam and Pat will share their experiences in teaching OCR Computing. Both teachers have been teaching GCSE computing for the past three years and are currently working with their second batch of students doing the final exams. Delegates are encouraged to bring their schemes of work along to share and discuss ideas. Anyone teaching GCSE Computer science from other exam boards are warmly welcome to share their experiences as well. Workshop B Developing a new KS3 scheme of work – Led by Alistair Surrall Alistair will be looking at the requirements of the new National Curriculum and the resources need to deliver it. Based on the experience of trying to develop a new SOW over the last two years the session will cover both the successes and the things you should definitely avoid. This is meant to be a practical session and attendees are encouraged to bring their schemes of work and resources along for discussion. Workshop C Exploring computing possibilities – Led by Piggott students This will be a drop in session where delegates can come to try out different ideas and explore possible technologies which could be implemented into your own schemes of work. Technologies ranging from Raspberry Pi’s to Lego mind storms will be available for you to try out. A number of Piggott’s computing leader students will be on hand to show you how things work and to give you a student’s insight.

Course Leader Workshops A and D Adam Hamflett is Head of IT and Computing at the Piggott School. Adam has a first class BSc in Computer science and first worked as a senior software developer for Accenture before becoming a teacher. He has many years’ experience in teaching Computing and has successful implemented Computing across all key stages. In his spare time he enjoy developing web 2.0 technologies and his website, www.pwnict.co.uk, is home to many of his resources. He is fluent in Java, Python, PHP, Javascript, HTML 5 as well as having practical experience in developing software using C/C++, perl, shell scripting. He is a certified Linux essentials trainer

Course Leader Workshops B and F Alistair Surrall is Head of Computing & New Technologies at a high performing secondary school. He has been teaching for a number of years, applying his First Class BSc in Computer Science and MA in Technology & Education to his classroom practice. Last year he was appointed as CAS Master Teacher for Oxfordshire and won the Business Times Innovation in ICT award. As a Google Certified Individual he has run a number of popular training days on subjects from Python to Google Apps.

13 Working session 2 Workshop D Implementing computing at KS5 – Led by Adam Hamflett Adam will his experiences of teaching OCR GCE Computing for the last 10 years. He will be looking at some of the new challenges that increased computing awareness is bringing as well as practical ideas for stretching sixth form students. Some of these ideas will include using Linux, teaching java and PHP as well as looking at the gold crest award. This will be an interactive session where staff can bring questions, ideas and schemes of work to develop. Workshop E Finding the right balance – Led by Rhys Driscoll This session we shall look at how we must not ignore the role of ICT and digital literacy to ensure a balanced curriculum. This session will look at the practicalities of the new KS4 courses and what Piggott are doing to ensure that students will have a balanced curriculum. Rhys will share his experiences in teaching Cambridge technical level 2 and 3, as well as the new CIDA specification. Delegates are encouraged to bring schemes of work along to develop.

Workshop F Python for beginners - Led by Alistair Surrall Python is a simple, powerful, text-based programming language that is proving incredibly popular with both primary and secondary schools. This session assumes no prior knowledge and will introduce all the basic concepts necessary to teach programming up to GCSE.

Workshop G Professor Peter Millican, University of Oxford Peter will introduce the Turtle System as a means of teaching programming - and Computer Science - in a friendly way that is both attractive to students, and easily teachable by non-specialist staff. It fulfils the needs of the new National Curriculum within a framework that is easy for students to approach, limited enough for teachers (of any subject) to master quickly, but sufficiently powerful to introduce real Computer Science and illustrate applications in other sciences (e.g. models of evolution or physical systems). Most of all, it is also fun, and opens the door to endless creative opportunities from cartoon movies, to mobile video games, to artificial intelligence!

Course leader Workshop G .Professor Peter Millican - University of Oxford Professor Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford University, and also a member of the Oxford Computer Science Faculty. He previously lectured in Computing and Philosophy for twenty years at Leeds University, where his teaching focused on making Computing accessible and relevant to students from other disciplines. At Oxford he championed the new degree programme in Computer Science and Philosophy (see www.philocomp.net), and much of his work is on the development and advocacy of software systems designed to make programming – and Computer Science – both attractive to school students, and easily teachable by non-specialist staff. Peter is a Grandmaster of correspondence chess and often in the media (e.g. Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time on Radio 4, and a recent BBC television documentary on The Joy of Logic). Last summer, J.K. Rowling was ‘unmasked’ in a front-page Sunday Times exposé, using software that Peter developed at Leeds for the teaching of interdisciplinary computing.

Conference for Librarians Venue: The Emmbrook School Emmbrook Road, Wokingham, RG11JP Conference lead - Barbara Band

11.00 Coffee & registration

11.30 A workshop with Dave Cryer in which he will discuss the ways in which he can support and engage with students, encouraging reading and creative writing. 12.15 Lunch: please bring a packed lunch.

1.15 A round up of recent news and reports.

1.30 A hands-on session with ideas and activities for reading for pleasure and reading across the curriculum. 3.00 End

Conference for Maths Teachers

Thales Ltd. Worton Drive, Reading RG2 0SB Conference Lead - Mark Wade

Steve Mould is a comedian and a science communicator, with a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford. He has been the science expert for Blue Peter and was the Street Scientist on BBC One's Britain's Brightest. Alongside Matt Parker and Helen Arney, he formed Festival of the Spoken Nerd, a hit show that has toured London, Edinburgh and New York.

8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9.00 Maths in the Real World - Professor Edward Stansfield Key Note Speeches Three engineers and graduates , ‘STEM Ambassadors ‘

10.00 Coffee Networking with session in STEM Ambassadors 11.00 Steve Mould - The Excitement of Maths! 12.30 Lunch 1.00 Maths in Civil Engineering - Chris Coe, Jacobs Engineering Maths in Developing Reading Station - Sean Murray, Network Rail 2.00 End of Conference

Conference for Modern Foreign language Teachers Venue: The Piggott School Twyford Road, Wargrave, Reading, RG108DS Conference Lead - Matt Connor

Isabelle Jones is a Head of Languages in the North West and a French & Spanish specialist with experience of secondary and primary teaching. She enjoys sharing her ideas and resources using twitter @icpjones. She also regularly blogs at http://isabellejones.blogspot.com and speaks at conferences across the UK.

8.30 registration and coffee

9.00 Introduction and outline for the day

9.15 Isabelle Jones (Creative Grammar)

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Departmental / teacher meet session

12.30 Lunch

13.15 Isabelle Jones (differentiation)

14.30 End Departmental / teacher meet session

Conference for Music Teachers Venue - University of Reading Conference Lead - James Garnett

Institute of Education, London Road Campus, 4 Redlands Road, Reading RG5 3EX

Leading the way: rewriting music in school

8.30 Coffee & Registration.

9.00 Rewriting school music: National Curriculum, National Plan, Ofsted This session will consider what is now expected of school music departments and what a department might look like in five years’ time. 9.30 Rewriting a Year 7 Scheme of Work Building on the previous session, this will involve planning a scheme of work for Year 7 that meets the expectations of the new National Curriculum, the National Plan and Ofsted’s thinking about music education. The outcome will be a scheme of work that can be taught (and adapted) across a number of schools in September 2014. We can then evaluate this together next year and use the experience of planning, teaching and evaluation as the springboard for further professional development. 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Rewriting assessment This session will consider how to assess students’ work in our newly-written scheme in a way that is musical, that demonstrates progress, and that meets schools’ expectations regarding data. 1.00 Lunch

1.45 Developing musical pedagogy: Initial teacher training and continuing professional development A session that will look at different models of musical pedagogy in order to develop understanding about how teachers learn to teach. This will support those acting as mentors to trainees and to colleagues, as well as supporting personal development as a teacher.

3.00 End

Conference for Network Managers

Venue: The Forest School Robinhood Lane, Winersh, Wokingham, RG315NE Conference Lead - Ali Bovis;

08.30 Coffee & Registration.

09.00 Introductions – About you and your infrastructure

09:30 Current Projects – What current projects are you working on/in the pipeline? Virtualisation? Wireless? Tablets?

11:30 Coffee

11:50 Views on Current Topics – Cloud computing; Programming in Schools; Windows 8; BYOD; Web Filtering; Asset Management

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Future Projects and Purchasing

15:00 End

Conference for Physical Education Teachers Venue: Waingels College Waingels Road, Woodley, RG54RF Conference lead - Reahgan Quartermaine 8.30 Coffee & Registration.

Keynote Tony Macfadyen - Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at University of Reading Gwenda Lappin – School Games Organiser (SGO)

10.00 Pathway 1 - Eileen Marchant Delivery of the New PE Curriculum 2014’ ‘Quality Mark for PE and Sport’ Eileen has been involved in physical education for many years. She trained as a secondary teacher and started her teaching career in London before moving north where she was an advisory teacher in Huddersfield. She has worked across all phases both as a provider of continuing professional development and a school improvement officer in Kirklees. She was an Ofsted team inspec- tor and has undertaken over forty inspections. Pathway 2: Handball level 1 - Adam Colley (England Handball Coach) Overview: • Perform and teach basic skills and tactics • Understand and apply basic rules • Introduce handball into curriculum teaching • Improvise facilities, resources and adapt rules • Play adapted handball game

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Conference for Psychology and Sociology teachers Venue: The Holt School Holt Lane, Wokingham, RG41 1EE Conference lead - Mira Dakovic 8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9.00 EAL strategies to use in Sociology and Psychology Emily Waddilove Emily Waddilove, Teaching and Learning Adviser , WBC This session will focus on connectives and useful phrases for signposting evaluations (evaluative language). These are can be used with EAL students and those with the poor literacy skills.

10.30 Coffee 10.50 Evaluative skills to use both in psychology and sociology This session will focus on identifying the best strategies to help students develop ways to evaluate effectively (as required for higher band in mark schemes). 12.00 Sharing good practice-teachers are encouraged to bring examples of activities that worked in their lessons 12.30 Lunch 13.30 Differentiated marking and feedback This session will focus on giving effective feedback and use of differentiated marking the help students ‘close the gap’ between current achievement and full potential. Talk followed by sharing good practice.

14.15 Use of technology in Social Sciences lessons This session will focus on the ways to incorporate technology in social sciences lesson. Delegates to share their own way of using technology in and out of So- cial sciences lessons.

3.00 End

Conference for Religious Education Teachers Venue: Waingels College Waingels Road, Woodley, RG54RF Conference lead: Stephen Vegh

9:00 - 9:10 Registration

9:10 - 10:50 Keynote Interactive sessions led by Stephen Pett, a key advisor from RE today. Will be leading a Stephen Vegh discussion around leveling and assessment within RS. Stephen will be giving lots of practical tips to use in the class and leaving us with many useful resources. As an RE Adviser, Stephen provides training and consultancy internationally and supports the work of RE in two local authorities through SACRE consultancy and school-focused work. He writes for and edits RE Today Services’ RE curriculum series, Questions in RE, and contributes to a range of our other publications.

Before working for RE Today Services Stephen was a secondary Head of RE for many years, and an Advanced Skills Teacher. He was Chair of his local SACRE for nine years and actively participated in the development of its locally agreed syllabus and non-statutory guidance, as well as being involved in training teachers in its implementation. His AST post included working Stephen Pett with schools in all aspects of teaching and learning, including creative task setting, active learning in A-level RS, developing ICT, particularly through video conferencing and innovative use of tablet PCs, and promoting spiritual development.

10:50 - 11:10 Coffee

11:10 - 12:10 Workshop Led by Stephen Pett looking at literacy, spiritual awareness, raising achievement and SMSC within the RS. (If more then 10 teachers request to come to the day a 2nd workshop will be run by Stephen Vegh, looking at teaching strategies at Key Stage 5 and pace of lessons.

12:10 - 12:20 Coffee

12:20 - 13:05 Faith Speakers An opportunity to meet with members of faith groups, part of this session will be given over to brush up on subject knowledge but also to have an opportunity to discuss attitudes to ethical dilemmas. Gavin Tyte 13:05 - 13:35 Lunch

13:35 - 14:35 Beat Box Vicar Our special guest for the day is Gavin Tyte a pastor from the South coast who uses art and music to communicate the message from Christianity. Gavin will be explaining about all his techniques and how they can be used within the classroom.

14:35 - 15:00 Networking and Evaluating An opportunity to have our termly RS networking meeting led by Jan Leaver and provide some feedback from the day. Jan Leaver

Conference for School Business Managers

Venue: the Driver Lecture Room Wellington College Duke’s Ride Crowthorne, West Berkshire, RG457PU Conference Lead - Janet Perry 8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9.00 Introductions and housekeeping 9.15 A Tour of Wellington College and interview with Facilities Manager and Operational Bursar re their roles 10.45 Coffee and networking 11.15 Wellington College LRC visit, looking at online learning, Q&A with Librarian

11.45 Sharing best practice snapshots (10 minutes each) - presentations from delegates including: HCSS Financial planning software Parago Asset Management software ACMF bid writing tips for a new build SIMS Performance Management software Building Project – mezzanine floor Health and Safety annual staff training and site audit Microsoft Office Specialist training for staff

More to be confirmed – please contact Janet Perry if you would like to make a contribution or see something included. 1.30 Lunch, networking and depart

2.30 End

Conference for Science Teachers Venue: The Holt School Holt Lane, Wokingham, RG41 1EE Conference Lead - Phillipa Dunn

9.00 3 Keynote speakers

 Curriculum Enrichment; bringing cutting edge science into the classroom Dr Vanessa Cheel

 The Excitement of Computer Science - Prof Peter Millican

 Cutting Edge Science - Angela Boitsidis, Jacobs Engineering Please select 3 Workshops

10.00 Workshops: 1 11.00 Coffee

11.30 Workshops: 2

12.30 Lunch

1.15 Workshops: 3

2.15 School Department Meetings :

Reflection time- an opportunity to talk within our own departments about Sci- ence teaching now and the future for us ...' Staff could then reflect and share ideas from the day - we so rarely get chance to reflect on CPD as a group and this would be an ideal opportunity for departments to sit and talk through things 3.15 Depart

Workshop A Nanoscience - Dr Vanessa Cheel, Department of Materials, University of Oxford Nanoscience is entering the curriculum and this hands-on workshop will enable KS4 science teachers to take these activities into their classrooms. The workshop consists of short presentations of the theory and hands- on experiments performed under the guidance of a scientist. The science behind the experiments is explained in teaching resources to take away and the teachers participate in practical experiments which they can use in their classrooms. Detailed background notes, web-links and useful contact details are provided.

Workshop B Programming and computer science for non-specialists – Prof Peter Millican Peter will introduce the Turtle System as a means of teaching programming – and computer science – in a friendly way that is both attractive to students, and unthreatening for non-specialist staff. It fulfils the needs of the new National Curriculum within a framework that is easy for students to approach, limited enough for teachers (of any subject) to master quickly, but sufficiently powerful to introduce real Computer Science and illustrate applications in other sciences (e.g. models of evolution or physical systems). Most of all, it is also fun, and opens the door to creative opportunities from cartoon movies, to mobile video games, to artificial intelligence!

Workshop C Engaging the reluctant science learner – Dr Andy Love The Student grunts; their backs turned on you; head down on table and responses like 'why should I', (plus many more...) are all common features of reluctant behaviour shown by our students as we continue our strive to challenge, inspire and motivate them. In this session we shall undertake a hands-on workshop looking at strategies that will reduce the reluctance and turn it into positive cooperation and engagement, hopefully , with a smile. Workshop D KS3 Biology for non-biology specialists – Gemma Banks Not a biology specialist? This workshop will provide some practical hints and tips to help with the challenges and demands of KS3 science. What are some of the common misconceptions in biology and how to over- come them? What don’t you like doing in biology?

Workshop E KS3 Chemistry for non-chemistry specialists – Roma Nayyar Not a chemistry specialist? This workshop will provide some practical hints and tips to help with the challenges and demands of KS3 science. What are good, inspirational and do-able practicals to support student learning? Workshop F KS3 Physics for non- physics specialists — Paul Stromdale Not a physics specialist? This workshop will provide some practical hints and tips to help with the challenges and demands of KS3 science. Quote ‘Every physics lesson should have a practical in it!’

Workshop G Maths skills for science - Judith Weaver What are the basic maths skills needed for science at KS3 and how to integrate them into your teaching? Top tips for ‘I can’t do maths and it’s a science lesson!’

Workshop H Proposed changes to GCSE and A’ Level Examinations - AQA What is happening, when? Support and resources to guide you through the changes.

Workshop I New to teaching science – Kim Hammond This is a chance to get together with other science teachers who are new to the profession. What is going well? What is horrible? Survival hints and tips from others in the same boat as you!

Workshop J Heads of Science Meeting - Phillipa Dunn A chance for us to get together and discuss all the developments happening in science

Workshop K Neuroscience and science teaching - Deb Heighes University of Reading What do parents and teachers know about neuroscience and how it links with learning? How can some of the research projects be developed in our own classrooms? Scientific literacy is important for future generations; this interesting workshop looks at some of the myths influencing our teaching today and also challenges us to think about engaging in some research in our own lessons.

Workshop L Synthetic Biology, with reference to the Wellcome project - Jarek Bryk, John Schollar and Dean Madden NCBE: National Centre for Biotechnology Education is part of the University of Reading. For the last thirty years it has led the introduction of practical teaching of biotechnology such as cloning and synthetic biology. John Schollar has taught locally and with Dean Madden they have delivered practical courses to schools, teachers and technicians throughout the UK and further afield. Jarek Bryk is part of the NCBE team which will soon be developing practical synthetic biology for schools.

Guest Speakers Dr Vanessa Cheel - Oxford University Dr Vanessa Cheel attended Croydon High School for girls (A-level: physics, maths, chemistry), then studied Engineering and Materials Sciences at Warwick University to first degree level, followed by a D.Phil for a thesis on the diffraction properties of copper single crystals from the Department of Metallurgy & Science of Materials at Oxford University in conjunction with the Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble France. Five years of industrial and academic research in the Materials Department, Oxford University merged with the start of part-time school science teaching. Since then academic research in various fields and teaching STEM subjects at all levels, including home education, 15 months in a nanotechnology start-up company and 16 months as Oxford University's Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences Division Outreach & Schools Liaison Officer have continued together. Archeometallurgy is an enduring research theme, a Daphne Jackson Research Fellowship led to acquisition of cutting edge science knowledge, and the combination of teaching and research enhances outreach skills. Research areas include shielding against the effect of an electromagnetic pulse, electrical and hydrogeological properties of quartz, lead-free solder and the development of a techniques for measuring nanoparticles. Widening access to science is a passion. Professor Peter Millican - Oxford University Professor Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford University, and also a member of the Oxford Computer Science Faculty. He previously lectured in Computing and Philosophy for twenty years at Leeds University, where his teaching focused on making Computing accessible and relevant to students from other disciplines. At Oxford he championed the new degree programme in Computer Science and Philosophy (see www.philocomp.net), and much of his work is on the development and advocacy of software systems designed to make programming – and computer science – both attractive to school students, and easily teachable by non-specialist staff. Peter is a Grandmaster of correspondence chess and often in the media (e.g. Melvyn Bragg’s “In Our Time”, and a recent BBC television documentary on Logic). Last summer, J.K. Rowling was “unmasked” in a front-page Sunday Times expose, using software that Peter developed at Leeds for the teaching of interdisciplinary computing.

Deb Heighes – University of Reading Deb Heighes taught science for more than 20 years in local schools and was Head of Science in two before moving into senior leadership. She now leads the Secondary Science ITT course at the University of Reading.

Secondary Conference for SENCOs and LSAs Venue: The Bulmershe School Chequers Way, Woodley, Reading RG53EL

Focus of the Day: Supporting students with SEN 8.30 Coffee & Registration.

9.00 The Autism Education Trust Level 1 Training Course.

10.30 Coffee 11.00 Session 1 - Select from 4 workshops

12.15 Lunch 1.00 Session 2 - Select from 4 workshops 2.15 Plenary 2.45 End Select 2 Workshops from this list 1. Ed Psych – Attachment disorder/trauma/loss. 2. Speech & Lang – What LSAs can do to support students with speech and language difficulties 3. Occupational Therapy– supporting students that struggle to concentrate 4. Ed Psych – Solution Focused Conversations

Twyford Rd, Wargrave, Reading, West Berkshire RG10 8DS Conference for Senior Leaders Venue: The Holt School Holt Lane, Wokingham, RG41 1EE Conference Lead - Anne Kennedy

8.30 Coffee & Registration.

Session 1 David Didau 8.45am – 10.45am David Didau will focus his presentation and group discussions on two contentious issues that SLT deal with on a daily basis Marking, feedback and assessment Lesson observations The key points covered will be

 Exploding Ofsted myths

RG41 1EE  The need to separate learning from performance

 Strategies for using observation to maximise development of T&L

 Is grading necessary?

 Marking needs to be low effort, high impact

David Didau has run two very successful English departments and been an Assistant Head. His blog, www.learningspy.co.uk, is a distinctive mix of acerbic wit and thoughtful wisdom and is one of the most influential education blogs in the world. David has been described as being like "bottled lightning".

10.45 Coffee 11.15 Session 2 11.15– 1.15 Barry Hymer TBC - Creating Growth Mindsets

Professor Barry Hymer will give a presentation on the relevance of Carol Dwecks mindset theory in education and this will be followed by a discussion on how we could instil a growth mindset culture in our schools. 1.15 Lunch

Barry Hymer

Barry is professor of psychology in education in the Education Faculty of the University of Cumbria. He is an experienced secondary and primary school teacher and chartered educational psychologist, and the author of several books and numerous papers and articles in the field of learning and teaching.

Conference for Technology Teachers

Venue: The Forest School Robinhood Lane, Winersh, Wokingham, RG315NE Conference lead - Chris Elsey

Focus of the Day Health &Safety and Assessment

8.30 Coffee and registration

9.00 Subject meetings Food/ Textiles, RM, Electronics, Graphics) Focus on KS3 and Moderation of KS3 work (Please bring samples of work with you) 10.30 Coffee 11.00 GCSE subject meetings (Show and tell, examples of work, resources, etc.) 12.00 Lunch 12.45 Health and Safety Course with the Design and Technology Teachers Association

3.30 Depart.

schools supporting schools... Delegate Booking Form Friday 28th February 2014

These conferences are free to teachers from the Wokingham Secondary Federation and the Wellington College Teaching School Partnership. Other teachers can participate at a cost of £50 per delegate, ( £100 for the SLT). If you wish to book a place, please return the attached spread-sheet or this booking form to: Gill Waller: by emai: [email protected] or by post: The Emmbrook School , Emmbrook Rd, Wokingham, RG41 1JP. Applications for places must be received by Monday 20th January 2014

SCHOOL FIRST LAST EMAIL ADDRESS WORKSHOP SPECIAL

NAME NAME CHOICES ACCESS OR DIET

The Conference Venues

The Emmbrook School The Fores t School The Holt School, The Bulmershe School , Robinhood Lane, Holt Lane, Emmbrook Road Chequers Way, Winnersh, Wokingham, Wokingham, Woodley, Wokingham, RG41 5NE RG41 1EE Reading RG5 3EL RG41 1JP

The Piggott School, Thales Ltd. Institute of Education, Wellington College Waingels College Twyford Rd, Worton Drive, London Road Campus, Duke’s Ride Waingels Road, Wargrave, Reading 4 Redlands Road, Crowthorne, Woodley, Reading Reading, RG2 0SB West Berkshire, RG54RF RG10 8DS RG1 5AQ RG457PU