This training event led by Oliver Williams empowers senior leaders and educators with essential presentation skills.

Participants will explore three core areas:

• Speech Skills: Tailor your message for different audiences, settings, and purposes. Learn techniques to project authority and clarity, ensuring your message is impactful and resonates effectively in any context.
• Physical Presence: Gain insights into body language and movement to enhance engagement and connection with your audience.
• Mindset Skills: Cultivate a public speaking approach that fosters resilience and adaptability in high-stakes communication situations.

Through interactive practice session, attendees will gain hands-on experience, equipping them with the tools to deliver presentations that are both compelling and memorable.

The programme runs once in the Spring term as a twilight at Hatch End High School.

This programme will cover Deaf Awareness training, and a basic introduction to BSL. The course will see participants:

• Identify barriers that deaf and hard of hearing people face.
• Begin to understand and demonstrate methods of communication that help remove those barriers.
• Practise how to fingerspell the British Sign Language Alphabet
• Learn some basic BSL vocabulary, including: greetings, colours, school related signs, describing family members, pets and the weather.

This programme has six sessions and takes place at Hatch End High School.

This programme suitable is for those interested in starting on a mentoring journey, or who would like to develop their skills in coaching and mentoring.

Instructional coaching is one teacher CPD strategy that has a proven impact on teacher expertise. This course explores the differences between coaching and mentoring and instructional coaching models that combine the two.

Delivered across six one-hour twilight sessions, this programme allows participants to explore how to establish an effective coaching relationship and discusses a framework to support the coach in facilitating the self-directed learning of a colleague.

This will involve practising effective strategies to deliver feedback and navigate professional conversations.

The programme has six sessions and takes place at Hatch End High School.

This is a dedicated professional learning opportunity for all educational support staff (ESS) to reflect and develop their professional skills and to share their experiences with staff from other schools. The programme has been developed in consultation with staff and is led by educational support staff.

Topics include:

• Obstacles to efficiency
• Delegation and difficult conversations
• Management of change.

There are six sessions at Park High School during the school day (1:15-3:15pm) from January to June/July. Please note cover may need to be arranged by participants own schools to support staff attending this day-time programme.

The programme covers the following content:

Supporting EAL students at proficiency scale A

• what proficiency scale A look like in practice and main challenges
• effective strategies to support participation and comprehension
• creating positive and inclusive learning environment s

Academic Language in Your Subject

• Unpacking subject-specific vocabulary and language structures leading to teachers identify and plan for language demands in their own subject disciplines

Scaffolding for Access Without Dependency

• Designing sentence frames, graphic organisers, and tiered texts
• Supporting EAL learners while still stretching them

The programme has three sessions and takes place at Whitmore High school and Kingsbury High School.

This is a session delivered by Clare Kissane, who has worked in the media and corporate world for the majority of her career. She has 15 years of coaching, facilitating, and training clients to build their confidence and hone their presentation skills to help ensure they each stand out from the crowd.

This one-off workshop focuses on presentation techniques for influence and persuasion. The course is for those who want to increase their presence and impact in a team environment or with students; those who want to be more assertive and confident in their day-to-day work.

This programme is offered twice in the Spring term, once as a twilight short course session of 2.5 hours and another as a full course of 4 hours at Hatch End High School on a Saturday.

This is a course designed for Education Support Staff in the classroom such as Teaching, Learning and Support Assistants. The group will look at how we can best support students in the classroom with a range of learning needs.

The programme has four sessions and takes place at Park High School.

“Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them” – Rita Pierson. This course is designed to provide knowledge, understanding and practical strategies to support vulnerable students through a trauma informed approach. The course challenges traditional behaviour focused approaches and encourages staff to look beyond the surface of behaviours and develop a deeper understanding of student need.

The sessions will cover the following areas:

• Beyond behaviour – understanding trauma and the adolescent brain
• Understanding and supporting looked after children using a trauma informed approach
• Recognising need and responding effectively
• Creating safe, consistent and relational classrooms and embedding trauma informed practice across the school

The programme comprises four one-and-a-half-hour twilight sessions from 4.15 – 5.45 pm and takes place at Nower Hill High School.