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Four 60/90-minute webinars | Presentation + Q&A | Live on Microsoft Teams This well-being webinar series will focus on student / pupil mental health and cover the important topics of self-harm, eating disorders and substance abuse - the signs and how to react in the first instance. Each webinar will include strategies to help spot the signs and guidance on what to do to help students with articulating and regulating their own situations and emotions. Suitable for classroom practitioners, Teaching Assistants and pastoral leaders.  Webinars: Webinar 1 | Eating Disorders | The signs and how to react in the first instance | Jenny Langley Tuesday 26 January 2021 | 1530 – 1700 Webinar 2 | Self-Harm | The signs and how to react in the first instance | Jenny Langley Tuesday 16 March 2021 | 1530 – 1700 Webinar 3 | Substance use and Risky Behaviours | Ian Macdonald Monday 10 May 2021 | 1530 – 1700 Webinar 4 | The teen brain matters : A workshop for teachers | Jo Billington TBC (Summer Term) two x 90 minute sessions Costs: Per webinar | SWTSA Free | TSSW £20 | Other Colleagues £25 All four webinars (*four for the price of three*) | SWTSA Free | TSSW £60 | Other Colleagues £75 Trainers: Jo Billington Jo is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Reading and an Affiliate Lecturer in SEND and Inclusion in the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University. Her teaching and research centres on the lived experiences of 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. Jenny Langley Jenny is a Chartered Accountant, an author and a mental health expert, as well as a mum with six children age between 16 and 30 and loves the challenges and chaos that they bring into her busy home. When it all gets too much she goes running. When her eldest son recovered from anorexia over ten years ago Jenny left her City job behind and has since focused her attention on raising awareness of mental health and emotional resilience of young people. She has a special interest in prevention, early intervention and crisis management in the school environment, which she follows through her involvement with the Charlie Waller Trust. Ian Macdonald Ian has held various roles in public health including Healthy Schools, You’re Welcome, substance misuse services and HeadStart. He teaches on young people’s health, including devising CPD programmes on mental health, substance use and relationship and sexuality education, as well as currently teaching for the Open University. This event is organised by SWTSA. 
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 Monday 25 January 2021 | 1600 - 1700 Devonport High School for Boys are leading a FREE webinar on Student Digital Leaders. This will be a whole school approach and will look at the benefits of developing a suitably qualified team of student Digital Leaders in school. Digital Leaders can help to lighten the workload of Teachers of Computing and the school IT Help Desk. DHSB is one of the Department for Education's EdTech Demonstrator Schools.
 Wednesday 28 April 2021 | 1530 – 1700 | Zoom Video Conference Department for Education behaviour advisor and founder of researchED Tom Bennett discusses the habits and strategies of the most successful classroom practitioners. In a live webinar session Tom will discuss:
This will be followed by a 30-minute live Q&A where you can put your questions directly to Tom. Cost | SWTSA Members FREE | TSSW Members £25 | Other Colleagues £35  With experience as the UK Government’s school ‘Behaviour Czar’, Tom Bennett advises on behaviour policy and chairs the Mental Health in Schools panel; and currently leads the Department for Education's Behaviour Hubs project.
He is also the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that raises research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide.  Secondary drop-ins now on Fridays - starting from January!
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). PRIMARY: Weekly | Thursdays | 1545-1630 |Microsoft Teams (from Thursday 10 December 2020) SECONDARY: Weekly | Fridays | 1500-1545 |Microsoft Teams (from Friday 8 January 2021) Wednesday 21 April 2021 | 1230 - 1615 Teaching Schools South West is delighted to announce its first virtual NQT Conference. Keynote speakers: Lorwyn Randall & Helen Thorneycroft | Making Best Use of Evidence Tom Bennett | How to Start Building a Classroom Culture Introduced by Roger Pope, CBE Cost | FREE to TSSW member schools / or those schools registered under the TSSW Appropriate Body Service. Other schools| £55 per delegate
DHSBs Next EdTech Webinar: Running a Successful Computer Science Curriculum on a Chromebook7/12/2020 We are pleased to promote the next webinar led by EdTech National Demonstrator School, Devonport High School for Boys.  Monday 14 December 2020 | 1600 - 1700
Hosted by Paul Scott, Head of Computer Science and Claire Buckler, Director of Learning Commons Free to attend. This short webinar will focus on using the Chromebook to deliver Computer Science across all Key Stages, looking at programming and how to offer a paperless classroom. Suitable for schools who are preparing for remote learning.  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  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. This event is organised by our partner Teaching School Alliance, SWTSA.   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 How are you identifying those children with mental health needs |
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