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Central RSAA Trust & Holyhead School
RSAA Academies Teaching Schools
NQT Virtual Conference 2020-21
Saturday 6th March 2021
TEAMS
A word from our CEO It is my privilege and pleasure to be Executive Principal (CEO) of Central RSA Academies Trust, working with exceptional trustees, governors and school leaders. We are a group of schools with a strong and powerful relationship with The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (The RSA). The RSA has a strong history of supporting educational innovation, thinking and approaches, going back as far as the Nineteenth Century (https://www.thersa.org/about-us/education-history). Today we work together as a group of schools, working closely with the RSA, to ensure the best possible educational outcomes for young people in our schools. We aim to ensure excellent test and examination results for our students, and ensure they are fully prepared for a happy and fulfilling life. We currently have eight schools within our Trust, with children from the age of three up to Sixth Form aged young adults. Our schools are in two hubs, in Tipton in the Black Country, and in Redditch in Worcestershire. The schools and their staff work together to ensure the best possible learning for the young people, by supporting each other through expertise and sharing so that our staff can be the best they can be. Guy Shears Executive Principal (CEO)
Welcome On behalf of RSAA Teaching Schools, I am delighted to welcome you to your second NQT CPD of 2020-21, hosted again ‘virtually’ through video conferencing. There is so much happening across the alliance, with colleagues, schools and pupils all adapting to the challenges which we have all faced throughout, what can be only be described as, a significantly different and unique year. The resilience and creativity of our career stage colleagues, and our experienced facilitators, emulates our continued vision of innovation in the realms of recruitment and retention of quality teachers to support pupils in ever more rapidly changing and socially evolving communities. As a cohort of NQT colleagues, you continue to demonstrate the RSA ‘family’ values in your contributions and collaboration, approaching your CPD with motivation, resilience, creativity and enthusiasm. Thank you for this—you are very much appreciated and the impact you are having on our learners. We are proud to welcome Debra Kidd to as our keynote speaker today; her wealth of creativity and passion for education is infectious and you will be inspired and empowered by her approach and we look forward to hearing Debra’s ideas and strategies for the educational climate in which we are now working. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and our facilitators; your collective input is greatly valued. I wish all colleagues purposeful and positive discourse which will provide you with new ideas and strategies to help improve the lives of those young people and children in your school communities. Matthew Purslow FRSA SLE Director of RSA Academies’ Teaching Schools
Meet our Facilitators
Debra Kidd
Debra trained as an English and Drama
teacher, and has worked with every age
group from nursery through to Post
Graduate and enjoys working with
teachers and children every day.
She completed her doctoral thesis in 2014 and her first book,
Teaching : Notes from the Frontline was published in 2014. The
second, an adaptation of her doctorate “Becoming Mobius: The
Complex Matter of Education” was published in 2015.
A third, Uncharted Territories – Great Adventures in Learning was
co-authored with Hywel Roberts in 2018. Debra is the co-founder
of Northern Rocks – an education conference held in Leeds in
which teachers come together to celebrate teaching and learning
and to push their practice forward.
Debra has one mantra for learning and that is ‘Make it Matter.’ Not
a single piece of knowledge that mankind has ever acquired came
without a desire to know the answer to a question. We have to
give children the impetus to want to know, to understand the
imperative that drove the discovery – the story behind the glory.
@debrakidd
Meet our Facilitators Teresa Wilson SLE; Holyhead School Director ITT, RSAA Teaching Schools Matthew Purslow FRSA SLE; RSA Church Hill Director RSAA Teaching Schools Sarah Noble SLE, RSA Arrow Vale Director of Learning & Standards for MFL /CIAG Lead ; NQT Induction Mentor Owen Morgan; RSA Academy Vice Principal .
Meet our Facilitators Seema Pabla; RSA Academy Lead Practitioner; NQT Induction Mentor Georgina Chatfield; RSA Academies Senior Project Leader Sam McMonagle; Central RSA Academies Trust School Improvement Lead Niall Brennan; RSA Arrow Vale Assistant Principal Remote Learning Lead .
Programme/Workshops
NQT ’Virtual’ Conference - 6th March 2021
Time Activity Platform
0845- 0900 Colleagues log in TEAMS
0900-0915 Welcome from Teresa Wilson & Matthew Purslow
0915-0930 Guy Shears CEO Central RSA Academies Trust
0930-1030 Keynote from Debra Kidd
1030-1040 Break
1040-1140 Workshop 1—Remote Learning Breakout
Introduction from Sam McMonagle Rooms
“A discussion around remote learning, its purpose in the COVID
classroom, the lessons learned, practicalities and legacy plan-
ning for when pupils return.”
You will be with colleagues from your own school and from the
same phase of teaching.
1140-1150 Break
1150-1250 Workshop 2—Mental Health & Well-Being Breakout
Introduction from Georgina Chatfield Rooms
Practical strategies for supporting mental health in learners
(remotely and in the COVID classroom)
Evidence/information and links to useful CPD supporting mental
health of colleagues and pupils
Ideas for pastoral sessions
Sharing of best practice discussion in the group
1250-1300 Break
1300-1330 Summary from Debra Kidd
1330 CLOSE
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