EDUCATION SHOW PREVIEW - THEMES & SESSIONS
The Education Show is no different. For those of you feeling the pressure of the challenge posed by KS2 SATs, the CPD session at 2:50 the same day (Thursday 16 March) may be worth a visit. Nasir Quershi, director of SATs Companion, will be presenting his session entitled ‘Mastery or Mediocrity: How to overcome the challenges for the KS2 SATs.’ The session will address the key issues teachers are facing with the new assessments such as: curriculum coverage, saving time and money, differentiated resources, gap analysis and the new question styles. The session will provide solutions and techniques to overcome these challenges.
Straight after this session at 3:30, the renowned and inspirational Miles Berry, principal at Roehampton University, will be helping school leaders with assessment, specifically in computing. This half-hour session will look at some of the challenges faced by leaders in assessing skills, knowledge and understanding with computing.
So, if testing, SATs and assessment themes are of interest to you, we recommend you reserve your seat online before attending the show.
Literacy
Literacy continues to be at the heart of government standards and is therefore a central theme at The Education Show. At 11:15 on Friday 17 March in the Early Years seminar theatre, Michelle Larbey, AKA ‘The Phonic Fairy’, will be demonstrating how to teach phonics in fun and memorable ways, using real books. In her session entitled ‘Contextualising Phonics using Real Books,’ she will outline a range of exciting lessons that will support whole class teaching for every type of learner, due to the multisensory approach. Following her session, at 12:40 on Friday 17 March, in the Central Feature Theatre, acclaimed children’s author and poet, Michael Rosen will be sharing his inspiration and insights on engaging children in literacy and poetry. For new ideas to engage your students this is a ‘must attend’ session.
The theme of developing literacy skills across languages brings us to the contentious issue of teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) in primary education. Unless a primary school is lucky enough to have a bi-lingual teacher or parent willing to give up their time to come into the school, delivering a MFL curriculum can be costly.
At 2:30 on the first day of the show (Thursday 16 March in the Early Years and SEN Theatre), Magali Ellis, Head from Trinity School, will be sharing her insight into the ‘Alternatives in teaching Modern Foreign Languages (MFL).’ In this 30-minute, high-impact session she will be explaining the most effective way to teach MFL in
primary schools. An open discussion will include ‘how frequent and how long the lessons need to be, which teaching method to choose and how to untangle the complexity of setting up your language provision? For any school leader wanting to develop this area of learning, this is a ‘must visit’ session.
And of course, if MFL is one area of interest to you at the current time you may want to also visit supplier Language Magnet on stand N14. This company provides a unique foreign language service for primary schools offering on-going, personalised, language coaching for non-specialist teachers and a high-quality scheme of work with exceptional resources.
Recruitment
This year at Bett and The Education Show there is a noticeable increase in the number of suppliers offering schools recruitment services at very low costs. The issue of staff recruitment is well documented, with 79 per cent of schools in a 2015 NAHT survey reporting that they ‘found recruitment problematic’ and that they always recruited ‘with some difficulty’. 56 per cent of the schools who responded to the survey also stated that they used recruitment agencies and paid between £1,000 and £10,000 per position; that’s
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