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. 

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. 

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

Plymouth Teaching School Alliance (PTSA) and TSSW are pleased to be working with Devon Local Authority to deliver The Plymouth Oracy Project to primary schools in Devon for this academic year.

This is a funded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme supported by a range of high-quality resources free for Devon schools, which is part of our Covid and Beyond Support Offer.
 
Delivered by PTSA accredited trainers, the Oracy project will build on the strong impact measures achieved in Plymouth schools, and trials last year in Torridge (North Devon) and Somerset that have showed similar positive outcomes.  

The programme is recommended for a member of the Senior Leadership Team (with some responsibilities for curriculum) and an outstanding practitioner from each school attends the training. As research from The Plymouth Oracy Project has demonstrated that schools which have successfully embedded Oracy have a trained SLT member to support implementation. 

Positive outcomes of the programme include: 

• Improved attainment and outcomes for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) key areas of learning, and for all other age groups in English and Maths
• Significant reduction in disadvantaged gaps (up to 50% in some cohorts) due to accelerated progress made from this group of pupils in EYFS, English and Maths
• Improved attendance
• Improved behaviour and well-being
• When tracking Oracy specifically, increase in number of pupils attaining ARE in the four strands of Oracy
• Some increased parental engagement

The programme will commence on Thursday/Friday 12/13 November 2020 and will be delivered in two cohorts depending on your school location:
 
Cohort 1 | Central and North (Tiverton)
Cohort 2 | South and East (Exeter South) 

Due to the ongoing Government Covid-19 restrictions, the programme will initially be delivered online with a view to moving to face-to-face later in the programme in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

To find out more information and how to book a place for your school click here: