Following her well-received talks for the TSSW Mental Well-Being Conference at the end of last term, we are delighted that Jo Billington is joining us again to lead a webinar series in response to the easing of some of the Government’s Covid-19 lockdown measures.


Monday 7 December 2020 | 1530 – 1630 | Microsoft Teams | First of a series - more information to follow

To explore the impact of stress and anxiety on children and young people's learning during the upheaval of the current climate.  

To suggest practical strategies for school leaders, teachers and teaching/classroom assistants to adapt in the classroom to support anxious learners. 

As part of the webinar Jo, will include some academic content and evidence; as well as providing a toolkit of strategies that can be developed and adapted to use in individual schools. 

Cost: SWTSA Members FREE | TSSW Members £20| Other Colleagues £25
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Biography: 
Jo Billington is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Reading and an Associate Lecturer in SEN and Inclusion in the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University.

Her teaching and research centres on the lived experiences of autistic students in mainstream schools with a specific focus on well-being.

​​​In addition to her academic work, Jo is a mental health trainer for the Charlie Waller Trust, where she works directly with school staff, parent/carers and students to promote good mental health in learners with and without SEND.

We are aware that School Leaders are working collaboratively through unprecedented challenges to keep schools safe for our children, young people and staff, and that these demands weigh heavily.

We are pleased to be working with Devon Schools Leadership Services to provide ‘Leaders Together,’ a new informal, weekly support group for School and Trust Leaders from Devon and beyond.

This is intended to be drop-in facility within a friendly, non-judgemental, safe environment to share experiences and information and to support each other. 

The sessions will be facilitated by experienced leaders, Rachel Shaw, CEO of Exeter Learning Academy Trust (Primary) and Matthew Shanks, CEO of Education South West (Secondary). 

Weekly | Thursdays | 1545-1630 |Microsoft Teams

​One of our local secondary schools, Sidmouth College, has trialled a new way of measuring student mental well-being, anxiety and meta-cognition; working alongside a not for profit organisation: ImpactEd 



​TSSW would like to build a network of primary and secondary schools to help and support each other in the South West with student well-being; learning during Covid; anxiety and metacognition using ImpactEd’s diagnostic tool.
 
Cost | Max £250 per annum for the diagnostic tool (dependent on number of schools committing). 
Data management | Held and owned by ImpactEd
Time spent managing data | Approximately two hours per half term
Students completion of surveys | Via PC or mobile phones 15 minutes once per half term
Pupil MWB Network Group | time commitment tbd

Outcomes for the group:

1. Students identified and offered support within your own school systems
2. Evaluate support offered to students
3. Benchmark nationally and locally
4. Seek local school support where system and approaches appear to be working building capacity
5. Validated data to support your judgements in managing Mental Well-Being in schools
6. Detailed feedback and whole school student voice on approaches to learning to enable schools to respond to issues.

 
TSSW will be hosting an information meeting for schools to find out more about the diagnostic tool and how it has been used in an educational setting on:
 
Thursday 3 December 2020 | 1500 – 1530 | Teams | Who
Matt White | Principal/SWTSA SLE | Sidmouth College
Joe McGinn | Head of School Partnerships | ImpactEd 
Sarah Frame | Assistant Director of TSSW
 
Please find a flyer attached that was used before the summer to outline ImpactEd’s offer.
Note that this is slightly out of date as the diagnostic tool is no longer free, this was part of the pilot roll-out.
A price of £250 for a minimum of 10 schools signing-up has been agreed.

To express interest in the diagnostic tool, please email diagnostic@impacted.org.uk, or contact Sarah Frame at TSSW (SFrame@teachingschools-sw.org.uk).

Live Implementation Session: 
Thursday 21 January 2021 | 16.00 - 17.30

One learning module will be provided before the live session and the second will be available after the live session.
 
Learning modules to choose from:

• Developing a Growth Mindset
• Resilience and Motivation
• Metacognition
• Retrieval Practice
• Cognitive Load Theory
• Spacing, Interleaving and Dual-Coding

Suitable for teachers, school leaders and education providers.
Cost: £45 per delegate.

Wednesday 25 November 2020 | 1600 to 1730
Join the first South West Chartered College of Teaching Network Virtual TeachMeet to discuss and share ideas.

Computer Science Subject Expert/Champion of the National Centre for Computing Education, Becci Peters will be leading a free introductory session for secondary teacher trainees in the South West on Tuesday 1 December 2020 at 1630 (for 20-30 minutes).
 
Organised by West Country Computing Hub (based at Exeter Maths School), the session is aimed at secondary teacher trainees of all subjects to find out more about the Computer Science Accelerator programme and the benefits of completing the training.  

Magpie Education are pleased to offer our TSSW member schools the following special terms for the Planning and Assessment App, primarily to support the teaching of Computing & STEM in schools.
 

• 90% Discount for the first year ‘School Subscription’ - £200.00 (usually £2000.00 RRP - first Year)
• £300 per annum annual subscription thereafter 
• Unlimited number of teachers per school
• Introduction session (platform demonstration & Q&A)
• Three additional follow up workshops per year
• Annual report - 'Reach & Impact'
• Annual report - 'Use of Planning & Assessment Resource'
• Final workshop to include guidance on how to prepare and maintain your school for an OFSTED deep dive for Computing