Education Show
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Traditionally educators visited the show for the purpose of seeing the exhibitors, and of course this still stands today. However, increasing autonomy carries its burdens and it is clear that there is a shift towards using the event’s comprehensive CPD programme as a key reason to visit. Visitors stressed that to maintain their CPD they either had to take a full day out of the classroom to attend a training course on just one specific topic, or rely on INSET days. It became clear that, in just one day, at the Education Show teachers can attend several seminar training sessions across multiple topics to revitalise their ideas and increase their understanding of a number of issues of interest – and all this accredited CPD is free of charge. Whether this is ‘Teaching Children to Listen’ - a practical approach to improving the listening of primary school children which was presented by Jacqui Woodcock and Liz Spooner, speech and language therapists at Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; ‘Social Networking: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st Century School’ delivered by Jeremy Scott, deputy headteacher at The John Warner School, or the Safeguarding Children programme which included a session by OFSTED entitled ‘Inspecting the arrangements to protect children’, visitors were able pick as many sessions as they wished from over 70 sessions covering all education and subject levels.
Of course it is not until you start to add up the cost savings made by the free professional development opportunities and by buying the right products to match each school’s specific needs that you start to see the enormous value that the Education Show offers schools. We enjoyed our visit and hope to see you there next year.
uTo discover more about the Education Show 2013 (14-16 March 2013) and to plan your visit, please see
www.education-show.com.
The Education Show 2012 hosts the Primary Languages Classroom Awards
The Education Show 2012, the UK’s largest platform for free, accredited continuing professional development (CPD) and educational resources, hosted the national Primary Languages Classroom Awards Ceremony 2012. The winners were awarded live at the show on Friday 16 March at 14.00 on the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) stand E30. The Primary Languages Classroom Awards (PLCA) celebrated the exceptional work of teachers throughout the UK in promoting language development at primary level, including the support of English as an additional language (EAL).
Research has indicated that the earlier children begin learning a language, the easier the transition to secondary school where high attainment levels in languages can be harder to achieve. The PLCA Awards are a marker of success for schools in establishing this strong early start, and play an important role as a platform for best practice. Awards were presented in five categories; French, German, other (such as Italian, Chinese, Urdu, or Spanish), Welsh and EAL. The EAL category continues to expand year on year and has become an important part of the awards. Today over 14 per cent of all UK school children are at least bilingual, and many have three or more languages. As a result, the work of the teacher has never been more diverse when any number of the languages could appear in the classroom. The awards were judged independently by a panel of professional educational and language experts, including classroom teachers and head teachers. • Welsh Winner - Alderman Davies Church in Wales Primary • Other Italian Winner - Springfield Lower School • EAL Winner - Pillgwenlly Primary School • German Winner - Vicarage Park Primary School • Special Recognition Award - Shamsudin Abikar • French Winner - Hertfordshire LA
April 2012
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