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What’s new?
NAHT Autumn CPD programme
This year, NAHT will
focus on the well-being
of school leaders and
the teaching profession.
As part of this,
NAHT’s Autumn CPD
programme has been
designed with your well-being at the centre.
With the return of popular courses and conferences, like Appraisals and Difficult Conversations, Safeguarding and Ofsted Update, and our annual SEND and Early Years and Primary conferences, as well as the introduction of brand new events, like our Equalities conference and our Developing an anti-racist approach to leadership, you’ll find plenty of events to support your professional development objectives and put your well-being at the top of your priority list.
naht.org.uk/CPD 01444 472 405
Pop Up launch Pop Up Festival for SEND
Pop Up Festival
for SEND matches
each class with
a contemporary
picture book, novel,
poetry collection or
graphic novel. Their
trained writers and
illustrators meet
pupils in person for creative workshops tailored to each class’s needs, bringing literature alive. Teachers discover inspiring ways to teach using literature direct from their books’ authors, increasing pupils’ reading engagement and communication skills.
Come and visit us at Stand 20 at the TES SEN Show!
Contact send@pop-up.org.uk for more information. pop-up.org.uk
Autism and Education Conference
11 November 2021
Join the one-day online conference aimed at education professionals.
Increase your
understanding and
knowledge of autism
and best practice in supporting autistic children at school. Hear from leading speakers and learn from research, innovations and evidence-based approaches.
With fantastic sessions on: mental health & wellbeing; exclusion; girls in education; sensory differences; emotional regulation; transition; social relationships
Don’t miss out and book your place today.
Find out more: autism.org.uk/education-conference
Leading autism charity Prior’s Court
shortlisted for major award
The use of Virtual Reality (VR) at Prior’s Court, to support young people with complex autism
to enjoy new experiences and accustom themselves to real world situations without leaving their classroom or home, just missed out on receiving a national EdTech award.
Prior’s Court, based in Berkshire, was shortlisted in the Innovator of the Year category in the 2021 Bett Awards, alongside the BBC and LEGO Education, missing out to SchoolCloud at a ceremony in July.
The project, led by teacher Nuno Guerreiro, involves collaboration between Education, Residential and multi-disciplinary teams to use VR headsets as a complementary resource to existing approaches.
COGMED for schools
Cogmed Working
Memory Training,
is an evidence-
based program for
helping children
and adolescents,
sustainably improve
attention by training
their working memory.
This online platform
uses cognitive
neuroscience,
combined with innovative computer game design and close professional support, to deliver substantial and lasting benefits to children from 4 years +.
Visit their Cogmed page to learn more on this interactive tool and to find out how your school can get access to the program at pearsonclinical.co.uk/cogmedsen
The Magician’s Elephant
A magician conjures an elephant from the sky, setting off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that it changes life in this quiet and lonely town forever.
This brand new musical for
all the family reminds us all
that even the impossible can be possible when we open our eyes and hearts to those around us.
The Magician’s Elephant is adapted from Kate DiCamillo’s prize-winning novel and runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from Thursday 14 October 2021 – Saturday
1 January 2022. There will be Relaxed, Chilled, Audio Described, Captioned and BSL-integrated performances available.
Book tickets: rsc.org.uk
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