We offer a wide range of high quality, bespoke teaching and learning support led by Jonathan Bond, an education consultant with ten years experience of supporting schools at advisory level. This is free to all primary schools who are members of the Harlow Education Consortium and can also be supplied, at a charge, to schools outside the Consortium. We regularly support:
- School Management Teams
- Subject leaders
- Teachers
- Learning Mentors
- Learning Support Assistants
- Midday Assistants
- Parents
- Governors
This high quality support is offered in the following areas:
- Lesson design
- Teaching skills
- Reading
- Writing
- The new primary curriculum
- Curriculum design
- Able, gifted and talented
- Assessment
- Creativity
- Pupil independence
- Drama
- Speaking and listening
- Thinking skills
- Supporting learning
- Subject leadership
- Everyday behaviour management
- Developing better lunchtimes
Support is completely tailored for your needs and it can be accessed through the following forms:
- Staff meetings
- Planning meetings
- INSET days
- Parents’ workshops
- Governor workshops
- LSA training
- MDA training
- One to one teacher support
- SMT meetings
- One to one subject leader support
Each year, consortium schools and children are also involved in a range of exciting free projects. For the current academic year, the projects are as follows:
- Maths project - 11 schools are engaging with an ‘Every lesson a problem solving lesson’ project from BEAM maths.
- Innovation grants – 8 schools have been awarded £2000 innovation grants to fund an original project of their own choice.
- Performing Arts – we have commissioned Artis, a performing arts company, to work with 6 schools on a project to encourage the development of the performing arts.
- Able, Gifted & Talented Workshops – All schools have been offered places on a range of half day specific focus workshops for children.