NEWSLETTER SPRING 2012

Permanent Recruitment The LTA has historically been seen by most people as a supply teacher service to schools. We offer much more than this; placing also classroom support staff, bursars and very recently, placing our first cleaner into a long term placement. What most people don't tend to recognise is that the LTA has filled permanent vacancies in schools since 2002 as well as offering a competitive supply service to schools. The LTA's commitment to schools is to ensure an Agency Worker Regulations excellent prompt service in providing the right people at the right time of the The LTA is the only agency in Lancashire that pays its entire staff right quality required. according to nationally agreed rates and is therefore the only agency that adheres to Agency Worker Regulations from day one of an assignment. When Lancashire County Council put Under the Agency Worker Regulations, if a teacher or support staff the "Provision of Supply Services to candidate works for twelve weeks in the same school through an Agency Schools" out to tender in January (continuity is only broken when the candidate has a six week break, not 2010, one of the future development including holidays), the candidate should be paid to the equivalent daily ideas raised by the assessment panel rate of a contractual member of staff for future placements in that school. was that schools may be interested in a Please ensure you tell your agency and school as soon as you qualify. long listing service. This could essentially hand back more time to If you would like to calculate what your entitlement should be or you are Headteachers and School Governors a school wanting to understand the impact of AWR, please call your always striving to raise standards in Consultant who will happily email you a copy of the LTA AWR calculator. their schools. As a Pilot project the LTA is proposing to offer a FREE long listing trial for one school who is about to Contact the LTA Offices from 7am –10pm Monday to start the recruitment process. Friday and 1pm – 9pm on Sunday on:  Tel: Preston - 01772 200845 If you are interested in the LTA  Fax: Preston - 01772 567300 supporting you in the search for your next position, or you are a school  Tel: Lancaster - 01524 843347 wanting support, please contact your  Fax: Lancaster - 01524 845312 Consultant to discuss your needs  Website: www.lancashireteachers.co.uk further.  Email: [email protected] NQTs 2012 During the LTA's 10 years of operation, we have done much to support NQTs to find both supply work and contractual positions. If you know of any NQTs that are due to qualify over the next few months please ask them to contact the LTA to discuss opportunities and registration. LCC have arranged networks to aid sharing of good practice for NQT teachers. The networks will meet termly at various venues across the county to enable NQTs to network with one another and share good practice. The Summer Term meeting will focus on Phonics. The sessions we will explore the six phonic phases as exemplified in “Letters and Sounds”. Practical ideas for planning, teaching and assessment of phonics will be shared. NQT Network Meetings Will Be:

1st May Stanah Primary School, Lambs Road, Thornton, FY5 5JR

9th May Haslingden Broadway Primary School, Haslingden

22nd May Barden Primary School, Burnley

13th June Grimsargh St Michael's CE Primary School, Preston All meetings 4.00pm to 6.00pm Summer Term topic is Phonics and Literacy.

Safeguarding Writing an Application Form and LTA adheres to LCC's Schools' Agency Interview Techniques Workers CRB Policy for all Since September 2011 this course has been offered to all LTA placements. This policy states that teachers without it affecting the optional course allocation. This candidate should have a CRB in the move has had a very positive effect on recruitment and the name of the deploying agency and comments made by those who attended have been very provide this to the school on their first encouraging. Here are some comments below: placement. If you have a CRB not in the name of your Agency please call and • The course was brilliant and Sue did very well to keep us check why this has not happened as a interested for over 2 and a half hours in a cold room. Lancashire School may not allow you to • I attended this course last night, the presenter was fantastic & work in the school. the course was tremendously helpful. The next Safeguarding course will be • This course was excellent, wished I had taken a voice recorder. I at Clayton Park on Thursday 13th took my application letter and adapted it and my CV during the September starting at 9.30am - 12.00 course. noon for those who have not had • The presenter was superb, lots of top tips. safeguarding training for three years. Another date is planned for the autumn There will be some new dates added in the autumn so if you have but the venue has not been confirmed. missed out this year, make sure you book for next time.

Easter Holiday Tasks for all Teachers and Support Staff If you are looking for long term work in September 2012 please send your Consultant an updated copy of your CV (up to April 2012) in the format outlined on our website: www.lancashireteachers.co.uk It is important that you keep the LTA updated with your geographical work preferences. Where will you travel to? We know that people's preferences change over the course of the academic year. Please update by email to your Consultant which of the following areas you will travel to: Lancaster, Wyre, Fylde, Preston, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Chorley, Ribble Valley, Hyndburn, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale. Course Programme Learning Excellence teacher advisers and consultants have put together a programme of courses to meet the needs of supply teachers. These are listed on the Learning Excellence website accessed via the link button on: www.lancashireteachers.co.uk Teachers – Oracle Self Service Some of the courses are specifically for LTA teachers and Supply teachers (not support staff) are able to access their support staff; others are courses which are also offered to payslips online through Oracle self service. schools. The schools pay to send their staff on the Getting started – logging into Oracle Self Service courses while LTA pays for the supply staff to attend. Further courses will also be added to the website to meet demand and respond to your needs. There are three > Step 1 categories of course: Visit the self-service Portal: www.lancashire.gov.uk/oracleselfservice (Internet) 1. COMPULSORY INDUCTION (on first registration) SAFEGUARDING (every three years) You MUST attend these as appropriate > Step 2

2. PERSONAL Preparing for Threshold Internet: Select the Oracle Self Service link Building a Professional Portfolio which will direct you to the secure Applications and Interviews login page Teaching Styles/Methods Behaviour Management You can attend these without affecting your optional entitlement

3. OPTIONAL You may access any three twilight courses from the optional programme in any academic year. OR you may exchange them for other courses from Lancashire's programme. > Step 3 A full day course is equivalent to two twilights. A half day course is equivalent Once you see the following screen, you to a twilight. will need to enter your own Oracle Self NQTs may access specific NQT courses in Service username and password. addition to their allocation. and anything Your User Name and Password will have else that they feel will help them. been sent directly to you from HR Service Centre LTA teachers and support staff must attend induction and safeguarding and may attend any of the courses that they feel appropriate. (The same allocation of 3 optional courses applies.) Twitter As well as keeping you informed about courses by Please contact the AskHR support regular e mails we have now got a twitter page so as shown on the website that we can tweet reminders regularly. Please follow us on twitter at lta_cpd. You will have been sent your Oracle Self Service username and password on being set up as an LCC employee. If you have any problems please contact the AskHR support as shown on the website. LTA Course Programme 2012

Course Title Venue Start Date

Support for Spelling - Twilight City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 24/04/2012 Supporting pupils who are having difficulty developing mathematical Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 24/04/2012 concepts and skills An introduction to Aspergers and Autism Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 25/04/2012 What is out there? ICT resources that are available free to use in primary LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 26/04/2012 schools - Twilight Circle Time: An effective teaching approach for PSHE LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 02/05/2012 Improving Writing - Twilight Stanah Primary School, Lambs Road, Thornton, FY5 5JR 02/05/2012 Developing pupils' questioning and thinking skills City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 03/05/2012 Creating an Enabling Environment LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 10/05/2012 Improving Writing - Twilight LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 10/05/2012 Compulsory Induction for newly registered LTA Teachers City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 12/05/2012 Teaching Mathematics to maximise progress in algebra City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 14/05/2012 Supporting pupils who are having difficulty developing mathematical LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 15/05/2012 concepts and skills Supporting the development of age appropriate social skills in pupils who Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 15/05/2012 experience difficulties Assessment for Learning: Developing Effective Questioning LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 16/05/2012 Visual Learning and Social Communication for Pupils with Autism LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 16/05/2012 Writing across the Curriculum Stanah Primary School, Lambs Road, Thornton, FY5 5JR 17/05/2012 Introduction to Letters and Sounds - Twilight Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 23/05/2012 Phonics is Fun: An Overview of Letters and Sounds (was Introduction to Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 23/05/2012 Letters and Sounds - Twilight) Guided Reading and Assessing Reading - Twilight City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 24/05/2012 Providing opportunities to develop pupils' independence LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 24/05/2012 Speaking and Listening - Twilight LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 30/05/2012 Visual Learning and Social Communication for Pupils with Autism City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 30/05/2012 Using the Smart Interactive Whiteboard in a primary classroom - Twilight City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 12/06/2012 NEW Fair Test Investigation Planning Boards Training LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 13/06/2012 Super Sentences - Twilight St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale 14/06/2012 Writing across the Curriculum Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 14/06/2012 Managing Behaviour in the Secondary phase City Learning Centre, Unity College, Burnley, BB11 3RQ 18/06/2012 Supporting pupils with gross and fine motor skills to access the curriculum. LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 20/06/2012 Communication, language and literacy development in the Early Years LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 21/06/2012 Foundation Stage Communication, language and literacy development in the Early Years LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 21/06/2012 Foundation Stage Developing a Geography Topic - Rivers: Practical activities linked to erosion Hothersall Lodge Field Centre, Longridge 22/06/2012 and deposition Developing a Geography Topic - Rivers: The oretical background to the Hothersall Lodge Field Centre, Longridge 22/06/2012 physical features of rivers and the fluvial processes at work Compulsory Induction for newly registered LTA Teachers Borwick Hall Outdoor Education Centre, LA6 1JU 27/06/2012 An introduction to disability LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 28/06/2012 Introduction to Letters and Sounds - Twilight Stanah Primary School, Lambs Road, Thornton, FY5 5JR 28/06/2012 Phonics is Fun: An Overview of Letters and Sounds (was Introduction to Stanah Primary School, Lambs Road, Thornton, FY5 5JR 28/06/2012 Letters and Sounds - Twilight) Compulsory Induction for newly registered LTA Teachers Lancashire College, Chorley 30/06/2012 Improving Writing - Twilight LPDS Centre (Woodlands Campus) Chorley 13/10/2012