COBIS. Council of British International Schools

www.qcda.gov.uk

• The Independent Primary Review: from consultation to classroom
• Keeping the Primary Curriculum under Review: Leading and managing curriculum design
• Secondary curriculum review and implementation

Robin Hammerton HMI is one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, Children’s Service and Skills (HMI) in England. He is Ofsted’s National Adviser for Personalisation of Learning.

www.ofsted.gov.uk

• Learning Outside the Classroom: How far should you go?
• Curriculum innovation; this will draw on some recent HMI reports.
• What makes schools outstanding according to Ofsted; this is based on 2 recent seminal reports, one primary, one secondary.

Steven Mark

Director of the IPC

www.internationalprimarycurriculum.com

• The IPC and delivering the new National Curriculum
• Beyond Food, Flags and Festivals: developing international-mindedness with the IPC
• Assessment for Learning: a window into children’s learning.

Sally Featherstone

Leading educational writer and trainer

www.opitus.uk.com

• SEAL in the Early Years
• Transition from Early Years to KS1 in the new curriculum
• Assessment for Learning in the Early Years

Kate Bailey and Bernadine King

CEM Durham University

www.cemcentre.org

Catering for Dyslexia in the Classroom

• Identifying children with reading difficulties using CEM assessment Session
• Implications of the Rose Report for primary education
• Implications of the Rose Report for secondary education

Mike Parkhouse

Previously the Senior Assistant Secretary at National Association of Head Teachers. From September 2009, he has take up opportunities to focus more fully on working developmentally with school leaders and their schools.

Addressing the Challenge Curriculum Change - Workshops for Curriculum Leaders. 

• Clarifying or developing Vision and Values for your curriculum area
• Leading and managing people and teams to achieve successful curriculum change
• Creating the conditions for successful curriculum change

Ros Wilson

Author of Big Writing &The Creative Curriculum. Independent Senior Consultant at Andrell Education

www.andrelleducation.co.uk/about-us/our-consultants/ros-wilson

• Raising Standards in Writing at Key Stage 2: Using the Big Writing approach to significantly impact on standards in writing for 8 to 11 year olds.
• Power Writing for Key Stage 3: Using the Power Writing approach to significantly impact on standards in writing for 12 to 15 year olds and beyond....
• Key Stage 2 & 3: Talking the Big Talk –explores the power of talk and using talk to improve writing.

Janet Evans

Literacy and Educational Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool Hope University, writer and inset provider.

www.janetevans.co.uk

• Literature and Learning : children as playful literacy learners   3-7years
• Rhymes Jingles and all that stuff….. using nursery rhymes, jingles, songs, poems and popular culture to teach literacy  3 - 7 and onto 11 years
• Starting Stories: using short films, moving image and other multimodal texts to develop oracy, literacy and understanding of social and emotional issues with young children  3 - 7 and onto 11 years

Karen Ardley

Karen Ardley Associates

www.karenardley.com/aboutus/karenardley.php

How the Teaching Assistant can best support children’s learning.

• The role of the Teaching Assistant in supporting learning
• Creating a positive environment for supporting learning
• Supporting learning in literacy and mathematics

Georgia Thorp

Jenny Mosley Senior Consultant

www.circle-time.co.uk

• Puppets as Partners in Learning
• Story Telling Across the Curriculum
• Terrific Teaching Through Tangible Topics

Valerie Fleet

Jenny Mosley Senior Consultant

 www.circle-time.co.uk

• Developing Imaginative Play Through Rhymes Rhythm and Drama.
• Energising Quality Play Through Outside Traditional Playground Games.
• SEAL - A Whole School Approach Through Quality Circle Time.