The UK's Biggest One-Day Practitioner Event Welcome to the SSAT Achievement Show 2014
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26.06.14 The UK's biggest one-day practitioner event Welcome to the SSAT Achievement Show 2014 Hello and welcome to the 2014 SSAT Achievement Show! We are delighted that you have chosen to join us here at Twickenham Stadium today. The Achievement Show is a celebration of the outstanding work that goes on in schools up and down the country. It provides you with an opportunity to hear first-hand from colleagues about the ideas and strategies that have had an impact in their schools. We hope that you will leave today reinvigorated and with lots of practical ideas that will support your work when you get back. This year’s show is bigger and better than ever before. Alongside the zones that have been so popular in the last few years such as Inspiring schools, Inspiring departments and Leading learning, you will also find some new zones which we hope will add to your experience today. Do check out the programme for our new zones – Aspiration and achievement, Teaching and learning and Post 16. We hope you enjoy your day The Achievement Show team Show essentials A–Z Catering Mobile phones All refreshments will be served in the Rose Suite, which Please keep your phone on silent throughout the day, is on the ground floor. Soft drinks will be available particularly when you are in sessions. throughout the day; tea and coffee will be served during registration and during the break from 10.45-11.15. Photography and video Lunch will be available from 12.15-13.45. Vegetarians will Photographs and video footage may be taken during be catered for in the main menu. If you have informed us the course of the day. The SSAT and its partner of a specific dietary requirement, please make yourself organisations may use this for marketing and known to the staff that are overseeing the lunch service. publications. The photographs and video footage will not be used for any other purpose. If you have Please note: there is a staggered lunch, so not all zones any concerns, please speak to our staff at the will break at the same time. This is to minimise queuing. information desk. The food stations will be completely refreshed for those of you that come for lunch from 13.00-13.45, so you Today's timetable won't miss out! Presentations All presentations will be available on the SSAT website 09.00 - 10.00 Registration opens Evacuation procedures after the event. Delegates will be sent a link to the presentations by email. Should it be necessary to evacuate the stadium, please 10.00 - 10.45 Session 1 follow the instructions of Twickenham staff. Exits are clearly marked, please make your way out of the stadium Smoking 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break quickly and do not stop to collect your belongings. Twickenham Stadium is a strictly non-smoking venue. Please refrain from smoking in the stadium or the area 11.15 - 12.00 Session 2 Evaluations immediately in front of the stadium. We are always keen to hear your thoughts on 12.15 - 13.00 Session 3 the day. You will receive an evaluation form by email Taxis Lunch after the event. Local taxi companies include: 13.00 - 13.45 Session 4 Central Cars 020 8891 9999 Information and queries 14.00 - 14.45 Session 5 Excelsior Cars 020 8891 5650 The Achievement Show information desk is situated 15.00 - 15.45 Session 6 in the Live Room reception area and will be staffed Twickenham Taxis 020 7127 4687 throughout the day should you have any queries. Guided tours – World Rugby Museum 15.45 Close First aid The RFU and the team at Twickenham Stadium are kindly If first aid is required, please speak to a member of offering free guided tours of the World Rugby Museum You will find the schedule for today’s show in Twickenham staff, who will take you to the nearest first during lunch. If you would like to join a tour, please come the centre pages of this paper. Full details of aid point. to the information desk at 12.15 or at 13.00. the sessions in each zone are also enclosed. 02 www.ssatuk.co.uk/achievementshow What's the big idea? Please use this space for notes Contents Aspiration and achievement A and ideas from today. Level 2 / Brunel 3 04 Aspiration and achievement B Level 2 / Brunel 4 05 English and literacy Level 2 / Shakespeare 1 06 Inspiring departments A Level 2 / Elgar 1 08 Inspiring departments B Level 2 / Elgar 2 10 Inspiring schools Level 1 / The Live Room 12 Plan your day Today's schedule at a glance 14 Leading learning A Level 2 / Churchill 16 Leading learning B Level 2 / Nightingale 17 Learning technologies Level 2 / Brunel 2 18 Maths Level 2 / Shakespeare 3 20 Post 16 Level 2 / Brunel 1 21 Teaching and learning Level 3 / Grand Slam Room 22 Today's exhibitors Level 1 / Rose Suite 24 www.ssatuk.co.uk/achievementshow 03 11.15 - 12.00 12.15 - 13.00 Strategies to support students Strategies to support students with EAL with ASD Raising achievement in a multicultural urban Classroom strategies to support pupils with ASD comprehensive with 66 languages and above Linwood School Springwood Campus average churn Presenter Jack Hunt School Peterborough Lynda Bannister Head of Springwood Campus Presenters School environments can cause high anxiety and heighten Pamela Kilbey Headteacher sensory issues for pupils with autism. An increased Kate Simpson-Holley Deputy Headteacher understanding of the impact of the environment on pupils Maggie Keber Minority Ethnic Leader with autism can help us to support pupils with their All year groups currently have significantly negative average learning. How we as teachers design the layout of the point scores on entry into year 7 and up to 60 students join classroom, structure the day and communicate with the the school every year into all year groups, mainly without pupils can create or break down barriers to learning and affect English. Our progress figures are always significantly positive, achievement. Recognising the stressors for individuals and English progress and attainment are above national average, designing the environment around the perceived needs of our Ofsted found the school good in all categories and in 2013 pupils Springwood, and before it Linwood ASD base has had we were above the national average for attainment for 5A-C a positive impact on achievement for all our pupils. inc EM. ‘The academic attainment of pupils with ASC is very wide. This session will cover: They all make very good progress.’ (Ofsted March 2013). 1 Context and challenges of school This session will cover: 2 Overarching strategies and successes 1 The need for structure Level 2 / Brunel 3 3 Work on communication across the school 2 Effects of anxiety on behaviour 4 Support for EAL learners new to the country. 3 Helpful hints 4 Engaging pupils with the 5 Point scale Aspiration and Improving attainment for EAL Students 5 Springwood environment. St Bernard's High School Opening the doors that make our school special: Presenters Supporting students with ASD in a achievement A Carmel Allen Deputy Headteacher mainstream setting Lorraine Joyce EAL Coordinator Bluecoat Academy St Bernard’s High School is a Catholic academy for girls with Please note: there are two presentations in each time a mixed sixth form. It is situated at the mouth of the Thames Presenters slot in this zone. Each school will present for 20 minutes. estuary and due to the development of the Thames Gateway, Rick Back Assistant Vice Principal Inclusion the percentage of students with EAL has increased in the local Becki Sanders SENCO area and in our school. Over the last 6 years it has doubled Looking at statistics the academy is the most inclusive school to 15% in 2013. This change has taken the school from 10.00 – 10.45 in the city and county of Nottingham. Next September, the below average to above national percentages. Our changing academy will have 40 statemented students and over 60 demographic has required a rapid response to allow our EAL Strategies to support students with ASD. It also runs a Focus Provision for the students to perform above local and national figures at GCSE. six most challenging students from Nottingham City LA in vulnerable students The presentation will outline the whole school strategic collaboration with the LA. Two years ago the academy started Strategies for schools to use in supporting planning for our changing demographic and share some a full time sixth form SEND programmes focusing on Life Skills parents with vulnerable students practical classroom strategies favoured by students and for 10+ students. Recent Ofsted reports and LA evaluations Drayton Manor High School which can be used to enhance learning and be applied across describe the academy SEND provision as excellent. subjects. We have developed a range of strategies to develop This session will cover: Presenter staff understanding, support our EAL students and enable our Colleen Bell Head of Inclusion and SENCO community to see this increased diversity as a benefit to 1 Ethos of inclusion We believe every child deserves the best opportunities in life. the whole community. 2 Managing transition In this presentation, I will discuss the impact our approach to This session will cover: 3 Role of key worker working with students and parents has had. I will also share 1 School context and why EAL became a focus 4 Personalised curriculum tools that create a living/learning environment that is focused, 5 Communication matters disciplined and purposeful.