The Knights Templar School in Baldock opened its doors in September 1939 with 182 local and evacuee children on the roll. Today it is a modern, government funded academy serving 1300 students. It is consistently rated amongst the top 10 schools in the UK and the core curriculum and after-school clubs provide a strong focus on STEAM subject areas.

“Reducing the Need for Restraint and Restrictive Intervention” (HM Government 2019) states that “Every child and young person has a right to be treated with respect and dignity.” This document provides a framework of core values and principles of support which include a proactive approach to support children and young people whose behaviour challenges and a reduction in the need to use restraint and restrictive interventions. 
Children’s Services and schools need to ensure that both their practice and training reflect the requirements of this guidance – this is where Loddon Training & Consultancy can help you! 

Achieve 360 provides counselling, behaviour and family support services across the north west of England, working holistically and professionally with schools and the family.
Our work is primarily commissioned by schools and social care. Private referrals for individuals including adults and young people also form part of our services and are always welcome.

Bett and The Education Show, two key events on the global educational stage, will unite to become the world’s biggest education event. For the first time, The Education Show will take place inside Bett from 22nd-25th January 2020. The show will bring together over 800 leading companies, 103 new EdTech start-ups and over 34,000 attendees at London’s ExCeL.

Secondary school students are being encouraged to go A Day Without as a sign of solidarity with people with disabilities around the world who are often denied their most basic human rights. 

In an initiative run by international disability charity Leonard Cheshire, students are being asked to give something up that they take for granted in order to help make a difference for disabled students who do not have equal access to education.

Culminating on a day of action on Tuesday 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, pupils can donate £1 to take part and develop a deeper understanding of what it means to live with a disability. 

Oldham-based Lyndhurst Primary School has introduced weekly British Sign Language lessons across every year group to help better connect their pupils with hopes that British Sign Language will become 'second-nature' to them and the local community.
 
The initiative was set up to help support and improve the lives of five-year-old deaf pupil Mohammed Daud who needs BSL and sign supported English (SSE) to access education, and two other children with hearing impairments at the school.
 

Free Key Stage 4 classroom resources which use real-world examples, such as going to university and running a festival stall, to bring maths to life are now available for teachers to download.
Chartered accountancy body ICAEW has designed the resources to help GCSE maths students tackle context-based questions.
Around a quarter of questions in GCSE maths exams involve applying maths to real-world contexts, but analysis of past papers showed that many pupils struggled with this.
The new teaching resources use financial examples to provide real-world context and engage pupils in understanding mathematical concepts. They have been designed to help teachers make maths more accessible, engaging, and relevant, while preparing students for exams.

The Autism Education Trust (AET) has announced the release of its updated AET Autism Progression Framework. Commissioned by the Department for Education, the new free-to-download resource builds on the success of the previous version, used widely by education practitioners across England, with many new features designed to make it more user-friendly and enable more practitioners to benefit from it.
The AET Autism Progression Framework 2.0 helps teachers and education professionals to identify learning priorities and measure progress in areas that fall outside the national curriculum. These areas relate closely to autism ‘differences’ - identified within other AET resources -  and the impact of these on autistic children’s social, emotional, independence and learning needs.

Cognus Limited may be based in the oft-described leafy London commuter area of Sutton, but the pioneering work we are undertaking for children in alternative provision and children in care is absolutely required to create bright futures for some of the most vulnerable children in the country.
Our success is exemplified by our Virtual School. One of the key challenges when working with vulnerable children in care is ensuring that they first secure positive destinations after statutory schooling, and then maintain them.
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