Three Keynote Speakers: DEBBIE HEPPLEWHITE MBE FRSA Creator of Phonics Sounds and Letters. MARILYN BROCKLEHURST from the insirational Norfolk Children’s Book Centre. MICHAELA MORGAN – award winning poet and author. WORKSHOP SESSIONS will further explore drama, storytelling, poetry and phonics.
21/11/2012 9.00am-3.45pm
The University of Northampton Sulgrave Building, Park Campus.
Admission Fee £95.00
Posted on 15 December 2011, submitted by Debbie Morgan
Members of the Mathematics team within the School of Education will be working with ten local schools in Wellingborough on an exciting action research project, developing calculation skills and exploring algebra to deepen children’s understanding of arithmetic. The schools involved are Warwick Primary, Park Junior, Olympic Primary, Freemans Junior, Croyland Primary, All Saints Primary, Victoria Primary, Redwell Junior, Our Lady’s Junior and Weavers Secondary School. The project will run from January 2012 to December 2012.
Posted on 15 December 2011, submitted by Claire Bicknell
The School of Education entertained guests with mince pies and mulled wine this week, with the chance to have a look around the brand new reception and building of Sulgrave at Park Campus.
Posted on 9 December 2011, submitted by Emma Sims
The University is delighted to launch a new opportunity for students to contribute to the local community and enhance their own employability prospects. University ambassadors: Aspiration and Achievement (Word 169KB) will be employed to work with local primary schools on a range of exciting projects. Full training will be given and successful applicants will be paid £6.84 an hour for a guaranteed 40 hours (March to July). Applications are now open and full details are available on the jobs section of the University website. www.northampton.ac.uk/jobs
Posted on 8 December 2011, submitted by Claire Bicknell
Congratulations to Eunice Lumsden, Senior Lecturer in Early Years, who has been invited by Jane Hayward, the Chief Executive of the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC), to become a member of the external reference group being established to support the review of the EYPS (Early Years Professional Status) standards. The EYPS standards were launched in 2007 and are the basis for the assessment and accreditation for the award of the EYPS. The government’s policy statement ‘Supporting Families in the Foundation Years’ announced that CWDC has been asked to commence a review of the EYPS standards.
Posted on 1 December 2011, submitted by Claire Bicknell
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer in Education and Early Years Jane Murray who has been appointed to the national executive of TACTYC (Association for the Professional Development of Early Years Educators). TACTYC advocates and lobbies on issues relating to the Early Years workforce across the UK and encourages high quality international research in the early years field, disseminated through its in-house journal Early Years.
Posted on 28 November 2011, submitted by Kyffin Jones
Students from the School of Education recently participated in a Q&A discussion with 18-year-old Dominic Hyams, the subject of an award-winning Channel 4 documentary described as an “intimate observation of disability.. Dominic has brittle bones – but that’s not going to stand in the way of a European adventure with his gang of able-bodied mates…”. …continue reading Disability in the media – students meet Dominic Hyams
Posted on 25 November 2011, submitted by Ken Bland
The Higher Level Teaching Assistant programme recognises teaching assistants who are working at a higher level. The programme has been running since 2003 at UN and the School of Education is the sole provider of assessment for this status in the East Midlands and has trained and assessed over 3700 candidates in that time. …continue reading Did you know…over 3700 Higher Level Teaching Assistants in the School of Education
Posted on 24 November 2011, submitted by Ken Bland
Ken Bland, Head of Continuing Professional Development, School of Education, recently gave a presentation on the CPD needs of the Wider Schools Workforce at a regional CPD conference at Kegworth. The audience included new National College Associates, TDA regional leads, representatives of the Teaching Schools in the East Midlands and LA officers. The presentation covered the current number of wider school staff in the East Midlands (30,000) compared to the number of teachers (37,000) and the number of HLTAs in the region (3700) and the current policy vacuum for this group of staff. The detail of the new remit for the Teaching Agency is currently being finalised by the Department and there was strong support from the audience for a higher policy profile for TAs.
Posted on 24 November 2011, submitted by Ken Bland
The Education, Children and Young People Division of the School of Education has been working closely with the Council of British International Schools (COBIS), building links with international schools. Estelle Tarry has just returned from Numont International School, Madrid, having delivered training sessions to both Teachers and Teaching Assistants. Numont International School has approximately 320 children from 48 different countries and follows the National Curriculum. The conference will hopefully provide more opportunities to deliver training and the new Certificate for Teaching Assistants in an International Context (CTAIC) being developed by the School of Education.
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