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TRAINING
We offer continuous professional development (CPD) that is creative, collaborative and research based focused on making a long lasting impact on pupil outcomes. We aim to challenge and engage participants, encourage collaborative learning and develop reflective practice.
All our work is Quality Assured and as well as offering training at Woodbridge Training Hub – Heaton, we also can arrange for bespoke training in your setting.
Contact us for the nearest available dates at: training@ladywood.bolton.sch.uk
Courses
AVAILABLE COURSES
AUTISM SPECTRUM - A DEEPER PERSPECTIVE
This course is aimed at deepening a delegate’s knowledge of ASD and the impact this has on pupils’ social and academic progress in school. This includes information to further highlight and explain the difficulties that pupils with ASD experience and underpin the often inappropriate manner in which pupils may respond in different situations.
Location:
Bolton Golf Club
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 28th March (09:30-16:00)
Cost:
£250 per delegate
AUTISM SPECTRUM - PRIMARY
An introduction to Autism Spectrum and an outline of how it may impact on children you work with. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of strategies and resources to support pupils with Autism Spectrum
in the classroom.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Session 1: Wednesday 6th Nov 24 (15:45-17:15)
Session 2: Wednesday 13th Nov 24 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
AUTISM WITH DEMAND AVOIDANCE
This course will support and develop your knowledge of autism with demand avoidant profile / pathological demand avoidance (PDA).
Deepen your understanding and knowledge of effective strategies as we focus on the unique characteristics of the PDA autistic profile. Learn some practical strategies to aid communication, manage challenging behaviour and develop an understanding of a supportive and inclusive learning environment for children with this unique profile. Learn how to adapt your approaches to have a positive impact on children with this autistic profile.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Wed 27th Nov 2024 & Wed 4th Dec 2024 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
BESPOKE TRAINING
All programmes detailed in this booklet can be booked as a bespoke package for whole school staff training as part of a training day or a twilight session.
If you have any other bespoke training needs for your school, which are not listed in this booklet, please contact Ladywood Outreach and we will be happy to discuss your requirements. Alongside the courses running at our Woodbridge Training Hub, Ladywood Outreach offer a wide variety of other courses that can be delivered in your setting.
OTHER COURSES WE CAN OFFER INCLUDE:
- Moving & Handling
- Working Memory (Primary & Secondary)
- Identifying the Sensory Need
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Supporting Strategies
- Interactive Storytelling
- Using Massage and Positive Touch to Tell Stories
- Teaching Early Mathematics
- Deliver Phonics Confidently
- Supporting Communication in the Early Years
- Therapeutic Approaches to Teaching and Learning
- Developing Outdoor Learning
- Supporting pupil/staff Wellbeing
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COMMUNICATION APPROACH
A greater understanding of Speech Language and Communication Needs with strategies to support expressive, receptive and pragmatic language differences. An introduction to SLCN and supporting strategies in the learning environment.
During the session delegates will become familiar with the difficulties associated with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and know how these impact on children’s learning inside and outside of the classroom.
Delegates will become aware of the terms associated with SLCN and know how to identify the different aspects of SLCN e.g. receptive, expressive and semantic pragmatic language needs.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 7th March 2025 (09:30-16:00)
Cost:
£220 per delegate
DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE DISORDER (DLD) AND STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT
Would you and your staff like to know more about DLD?
DLD is considered to be the most common childhood condition that people have never heard of. DLD affects approximately two children in very classroom impacting on literacy, learning, friendship and emotional well being.
In this course you will become more familiar with DLD and how it affects children. It will provide you with a range of strategies and resources to support children with DLD to enable them to become successful learners and more confident in social situations.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Wednesday 12th March 25 (3.45-5.15)
Cost:
£70 per delegate
DYSLEXIA AWARENESS & CLASSROOM STRATEGIES
This programme provides an introduction to Dyslexia, and will include other associated SpLDs. The session will include identification of such SpLDs, the difficulties presented and suggested strategies for inclusion in the classroom.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Monday 17th March 25 (3.45-5.15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
FOETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER (FASD)
It is estimated that Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) may affect up to 3% of children in schools, and up to 27% of children in care, yet many teachers know little about the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol on pupils’ education and life chances, or how to support them to make academic and social progress.
This training aims to increase awareness of the challenges pupils with FASD face and to provide educators and support staff with strategies that can be used to support their needs.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Session 1: Wednesday 15th Jan 2025 (15:45-17:15)
Session 2: Wednesday 22nd Jan 2025 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
IRLEN SCREENER TRAINING
Irlen Centre North West are able to offer a two day Irlen Screener training course for educators and other professionals. Certified Irlen Screeners are able to administer the initial Irlen assessment to determine overlay colour, paper colour and other initial accommodations. This course will equip you with the skills and confidence to accurately screen individuals in an efficient and timely manner.
Location:
Bolton Golf Club
Course Dates & Times:
7th & 8th November 2024
Cost:
£435 per delegate
LEGO THERAPY©
Lego Therapy© is an intervention to support the development of language skills. In Lego Therapy© pupils work in teams to build Lego models, developing their language skills as they do. In this practical session you will learn how to prepare for, facilitate and assess Lego Therapy sessions.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Strategies - Wednesday 29th January 2024 (15:45-17:15)
Classroom practice - Wednesday 5th February 2024 (15:45-17:15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING DIPLOMA
The Neuro Linguistic Programming Diploma will enable you to understand, communicate and influence others more masterfully to achieve outcomes. You will learn the background and underlying principles of NLP, the “mindset for success” You will know how to recognise and work with the different ways people process and express information. It will enable you to become a more resilient person and how to put events and situations into perspective.
Location:
Bolton Golf Club
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 17th January 25
Friday 7th February 25
Friday 21st March 25
Friday 25th April 25
(9:30-16:00)
Cost:
£495 per delegate
NEURODIVERSITY, ENABLING ENVIRONMENTS AND SENSORY
On this course you will be able to recognise the spectrum of neurodiversity including ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia and more. It will focus on the importance of creating supportive environments, recognise the strengths and challenges of neurodiverse children / pupils. Delegates will further develop their knowledge of sensory processing, understand current, relevant and adaptive strategies and recognise the role of enabling environments in enhancing the well-being and potential of neurodiverse individuals to support an inclusive and emotionally supportive learning environment.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub
Course Dates & Times:
Wednesday 26th Feb &
Wednesday 5th March (3.45-5.15)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
SIGNALONG
As a Signalong Gold Accredited Trust, we are proud to offer bespoke Signalong training, integrating the communication system into everyday teaching practice to enhance the provision for all pupils. Led by experienced tutor the course incorporates teaching and learning strategies to ensure delegates are equipped to teach Signalong to all children. Signalong improves communication in school, strengthens interactions between children and parents, promoting inclusion for all pupils.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Tues 2nd June
Tues 10th June
Tues 17th June
Tues 24th June
Tues 30th June (9.30-12.00)
Cost:
SPECIAL OFFER £150 per delegate
SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS
WITH STRATEGIES
A greater understanding of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) with strategies to support expressive, receptive and pragmatic language differences. An introduction to SLCN and supporting strategies in the learning environment.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 16th May 2025 (9:30-16:30)
Cost:
£220 per delegate
TALKING PARTNERS
Talking Partners @ Primary and Talking Partners @ Secondary are researched based intervention programmes to address specific aspects of language and social communication skills with a proven positive impact on all aspects of language, learning, written language and behaviour.
Attendees will gain the knowledge and skills to deliver the programme or to implement aspects of it in the classroom to support the development of spoken language. All delegates will receive planning / assessment booklets, a range of quality visual frameworks to deliver the programme back in school.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Tuesday 18th March & Tuesday 25th March (9:30-16:00)
Cost:
£320 per delegate
THE ENGAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Do you have children in school that struggle to engage in their curriculum? Are you committed to enabling all children to effectively access their learning? Are you ‘adaptive and responsive’ to the children’s abilities to engage? Have you got an engagement tool kit to support all children to access their learning?
This course will provide a range of strategies to assess children’s engagement and identify a programme to best suit the needs of an individual child. We will look at a range of strategies taken from a variety of different programmes to build an engagement toolkit for your school. We will look at the Rochford engagement model and build elements around this to create your tool kit for engagement.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 10th January 2025 (9:30-12:30)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
WHAT IS COGNITIVE LOAD? - MAKING LEARNING STICKY
Knowledge does not sit as isolated ‘information’ in pupils’ minds it is connected and
intertwined. Progress means knowing more and remembering more. Knowledge is generative (or ‘sticky’), i.e. the more you know, the more easily you can learn.
In the training we look at how knowledge is connected in webs or schemata’s and how the curriculum design and opportunities in class can affect this. We discover how working memory, metacognition and vocabulary size relates to academic success, and how the opportunities we provide in school is crucial to help make learning “sticky”.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 24th February 2025 (9:30-12:30)
Cost:
£125 per delegate
WORKING MEMORY (PRIMARY & SECONDARY)
This practical and interactive session will provide strategies and resources that can be utilised to develop memory. This programme will give you an understanding of how pupils connect new knowledge with existing knowledge and to identify approaches that can be implemented into the classroom in order to support the learner.
Location:
Woodbridge Training Hub - Heaton
Course Dates & Times:
Friday 2nd May 2025 (9:30-12:30)
Cost:
£110 per delegate
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