Staff Development Day

As we venture into the phase of Core Professional Development and Learning (CPDL). The March Staff development day was a look into how far we have come and the journey ahead. With much promise on breakfast and a vision for a collaborative chomp, chatter and cheerful informal education chewing of the fat, apologetically many were faced with the prospect of chewing their own arm as a waylaid delivery and our very own edition of explosive caffeine became the special of the day. Hopefully unperturbed by this and understandably disgruntled (whilst hopefully arm intact at the hasty ordering of pastries), staff resiliently proceeded to their whole school teams. One school, one vision, and one subject is always a hurdle when traditionally segmented. We are in a fortunate position at BSB, that not only can we discuss learning journeys on one site but we see them all the time. We have opportunities everyday to coordinate collaboration and observe our colleagues ‘in their setting’. Opportunities provided through

Staff Development Days 2022

CPDL days have ensured that we can now discuss and create our own whole school subject visions. The discussions around the Spiral Curriculum, excited chitter around the prospect of subject-specific whole school-wide events were lively and exciting in most areas and we look forward to seeing how this enhances outside of the development days as we start to see subject pairings beginning to emerge as subject teams become more familiar with one another and put names to faces and links to keystages. Time at events is always an issue; as anyone who has sat through an all you can eat buffet will testify, too much and people become overwhelmed, too little and people leave feeling they want more sustenance. A larger plate means you can taste more, a smaller plate means more revisits and eventually, it overflows but I digress. Pleasingly, the efforts to greater communication around the event from the feedback overall seemed appreciated and whilst the contention of the sneaky drop-down box caught some people out,

Information Handling in Science

Paul Travers

How to use various types of graphs to demonstrate and display results of pupil investigations.

21st Century Skills (Workshop in Arabic)

Howaida Ibrahim

Recognize the skills of the twenty-first century and how to apply them during the lesson and talk about the advantages of inverted education

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the central CPD site seemed to be a useful platform and signpost for what was happening. Once again, the wonderful workshop volunteers provided varied and expert-led learning. Naturally, it would have been great to have more time to carousel; but conscious of people needing to be in ‘pole position’ for this particular day and wanting to give that valuable Educare time meant we were unable to do this. Feedback from the day has incited that as we have seen a return to a more normalised classroom environment that reminding ourselves of classroom management techniques for this digital age is still at the forefront of CPDL requests and inline with a current education trend, the concept of counselling and coaching at middle leader level. This is something which the next CPDL day will give attention to in response. To embrace the one school, one vision aspect , the next CPDL day will also be attended in various forms by all members of our school community (except the students of course). Overall, the platform for showcasing the wide provision of CPDL which is available daily through the Professional Learning Centre and the CPD Site which has a weekly update appears to be moving in a direction which enables the school body to learn, develop and continue to demonstrate professionalism which we are proud of.

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Behaviour Management

Amanda Fortescue

A Discussion on developing an understanding of issues relating to the management of behaviour and promoting good behaviour across the school.

Breakout Edu.

Liz Doig

Helps boost engagement and makes learning fun by working out puzzles directly related to what is being taught in the classroom from EYFS to A Level.

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Command Words: What do they mean?

Adam Guzy

Examining the words of the exams, and understanding what they are asking our students

How to Create a Great Lesson End: Importance and Strategies for Ending a Lesson

Sawsan Sabbah

Clarify the importance of the end of the lesson to create the next lesson, its objectives, purpose, means, and strategies

RWI Phonics recap

Anna Guzy

A recap for Read Write Inc phonics for infants staff.

Standards for a successful lesson

Magdy Attia

Show the steps of the ideal lesson according to the standards of the Quality Assurance Authority

Wellbeing

Laura Sullivan

Sharing resources and reading to help support staff well being and manage workload. Open forum for sharing ideas to well-being term to take forward for the year ahead and beyond.

Writing a Compelling University Reference

Thomas Weeks-Barnitt & Vanessa Williams

This is a session on how to write effective references in a concise and precise style, avoiding some of the common weaknesses.

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Learning Style

Thoraya Monier

The teacher distinguishes learning style

Reusing entire Google Classrooms.

Jannine Gammond

A demonstration on how to copy and paste entire Google Classrooms with accompanying assignments.

Teacher- Parent Communication

Julie Anne Gilbert & Devika Nanda

The art of managing communication in situations between teacher and parent.

Using Google’s Applied Digital Skills at the BSB

Lorna Drennan

This workshop will show you how to utilise the vast amount of easy to use pre-prepared Google for Education lessons that can be used for younger and older students, Adults and CPD. These lessons are perfect for all areas of the curriculum and suit our blended learning model.