Assessment: 2026 KS2 Access Arrangements for SATs (INT542)
Eligibility: This course is open to all Y6 teachers or senior leaders in any junior or primary school.
Pupils with specific needs may require additional arrangements so that they can take part in the KS2 tests. Need advice? Why not book a £20, half hour, 1:1 surgery?
Assessment Leaders Update Twilights 2025-26 (INT441)
This course has already begun - to attend the remaining sessions please email us at ststraining@southglos.gov.uk
As schools we are inundated with information around statutory assessment, so why not come and join the team at three online, twilight sessions, who will give the key messages and actions that you need to take each term.
Assessment Primary Statutory Briefing 2026 for Headteachers and Senior Leaders (INT440)
Assessment: End of KS2 Writing Moderation with Moderators (INT472)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y6 teachers from any junior or primary school.
Support accurate end-of-key-stage writing judgements with confidence. This practical session brings year 6 teachers together to explore nationally benchmarked examples, take part in modelled moderation, and strengthen assessment of writing through professional dialogue with peers and moderators.
Assessment: KS2 Assessment Briefing for 2025-2026 - For Teachers (INT442)
Assessment: Standardisation of Writing at End of KS2 - For Headteachers (INT473)
Eligibility: This course is open to headteachers and senior leaders at any junior or primary school.
A concise, up-to-date overview of how writing is assessed at the end of Key Stage 2 – designed specifically for busy headteachers. Ideal for those with little prior training or looking to refresh their confidence. Includes new examples and insights for 2025-26.
Assessment: Standardisation of Writing at End of KS2 - for Teachers (INT474)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y6 teachers from any junior or primary school.
This online session supports Y6 teachers to review the teacher assessment framework for writing and apply it with greater confidence and accuracy. Using nationally benchmarked examples, the training offers structured discussion, clear exemplification, and practical guidance to support robust and consistent end-of-year judgements.
Assessment: Y1 Phonics Screening Check 2026 (INT394)
Assessment: Y4 Multiplication Check 2026 (INT395)
AI Conference for School Leaders (INT476)
Eligibility: This course is open to headteachers and school leaders from any school.
This conference will explore the potential of using AI to improve teaching and learning. In addition it will support leadership in reducing workload. Early bird booking is available.
Conference: Headteacher Well-Being (INT504)
Eligibility: This course is open to headteachers and school leaders from any infant, junior, primary or secondary school .
This conference will support Headteachers with managing their well-being especially in challenging times. It will embed well-being into leadership, curriculum and culture and develop whole school approaches to well-being.
Conference: Making a Difference for Pupils from Under-Resourced Backgrounds (INT503)
Eligibility: This course is open to Headteachers and school leaders from any Infants, Junior, Primary or Secondary school.
The aim of the conference is to explore what schools can do to drive social justice, ensuring a child’s birth is not also their destiny and improve life chances and academic outcomes.
English: Early Communication, Language and Literacy Network (INT488)
Eligibility: This course is open to EYs leaders, early lead teachers & TAs, English subject leaders, KS1 phase leaders and KS1 teachers from any infant or primary school.
This network is suitable for teachers who have a commitment to build firm foundations in communication, language and literacy.
English: Exploring Greater Depth Writing in KS2 (INT469)
Eligibility: This course is open to KS2 teachers and writing leaders, English and senior leaders from any infant, junior or primary school.
This course will help you recognise and assess Greater Depth for writing. We’ll explore the role of reading, curriculum, and pedagogy in developing sophisticated writers, offering insights to support and assess Greater Depth effectively.
English: Moderation of Reading and Writing Workshop Y1 & Y2 (INT487)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y1 & Y2 teachers from any infant or primary school
This workshop supports teachers to assess reading and writing with clarity and confidence mid-year with an eye on end of year expectations. Using real examples, teachers will discuss children’s learning and explore age-related expectations to track progress and inform teaching.
English: Moderation of Writing Workshop Y3 & Y4 (INT481)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y3 or Y4 teachers from any junior or primary school.
This workshop supports teachers to assess writing with clarity and confidence mid-year with an eye on end-of-year expectations. Using real examples, teachers will discuss children’s learning and explore age-related expectations to track progress and inform teaching.
English: Moderation of Writing Workshop Y5 & Y6 (INT486)
This practical workshop supports teachers to assess writing with greater clarity and confidence. Using real pupil examples and moderated benchmarks, teachers will explore age-related expectations, apply modelled strategies for peer moderation, and reflect on judgements using their preferred assessment frameworks.
English: Subject Leader Collaboration Group (INT471)
Eligibility: This course is open to English subject leaders from any infant, junior or primary school.
Leading English is a vital role but keeping up-to-date, informed and reflective is challenging on top of the day job! Why not do it in company? Across two online sessions we’ll discuss key research, solve problems and build a supportive community to help you lead English with confidence.
Maths: Core Learning & Assessment in Y2 - Maths Readiness for Y3 (INT386)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y2 teachers in any infant or primary school
This course will focus very much on the core learning in the spring and summer terms of Y2 to prepare pupils for Y3. There will be time to look at planning and some moderation.
Maths: Online Staff Meeting Series - Bar modelling for arithmetic (INT528)
Eligibility: This course is open to all infant, junior and primary schools. The staff meeting format is intended for all relevant teaching and support staff at a school to attend as one.
Not using bar models for additive and multiplicative reasoning? Join us to find out how this could be the way forward in securing arithmetic for all.
Maths: Online Staff Meeting Series - Bar modelling to solve word problems (INT533)
Eligibility: This course is open to all infant, junior and primary schools. The staff meeting format is intended for all relevant teaching and support staff at a school to attend as one.
Staff not confident with bar modelling? Pupils not secure with drawing bar models to solve word problems? Then this is the staff meeting for you!
Maths: Online Staff Meeting Series - Table games to secure number bonds and times tables (INT535)
Eligibility: This course is open to all infant, junior and primary schools. The staff meeting format is intended for all relevant teaching and support staff at a school to attend as one.
Looking for new ways to explore number bonds and times tables recall? Come and explore using dice, dominoes, playing cards and Lego to engage pupils and parents.
Maths: Online Staff Meeting Series - Using manipulatives to teach fractions (INT536)
Eligibility: This course is open to all infant, junior and primary schools. The staff meeting format is intended for all relevant teaching and support staff at a school to attend as one.
Are your staff secure with using manipulatives to model all aspects of fractions, from EYFS to Y6? If the answer is no, book this staff meeting!
Maths: Online Staff Meeting Series - Whole school maths moderation for your school (INT392)
Eligibility: This course is open to all infant, junior and primary schools. The staff meeting format is intended for all relevant teaching and support staff at a school to attend as one.
This is an opportunity to reflect on what you currently do for maths moderation and consider what is best practice and what is a good evidence base to make judgements.
Maths: Subject Leader Collaboration Group (INT363)
Eligibility: This course is open to Maths Subject Leaders from any school.
School life is busy, and it often means as a leader that you don’t have time to keep fully up to date with what is happening in the world of mathematics. So why not come and join our maths advisor, once a term.
Maths: Supporting all Pupils to Reason and Solve Word Problems (INT390)
Eligibility: This course is open to Maths Subject Leaders in infant, junior and primary schools
Do you still have pupils struggling with word problems? Need to look at a whole school approach to problem solving and reasoning? Come and join other schools to share and discuss how to address these topics.
Maths: Unpicking Fractions & Decimals in Y3 & Y4 (INT371)
Eligibility: This course is open to Y3 & Y4 teachers and Y3 & Y4 teaching assistants from any school.
Fractions and decimals are tricky topics to teach. We need to ensure that pupils are secure with the Lower Key Stage 2 knowledge. This course will help you to do this!
Maths: Unpicking Multiplication, Division & Fractions in KS1 (INT382)
Eligibility: This course is open to any teachers or teaching assistants in KS1 from any school.
Ask colleagues the most difficult topics to teach in KS1 and you hear money and time, followed by multiplication, division and fractions, in fact they all link. Why not join us to find out how?
Science Subject Leader Collaboration Group (INT446)
School life is busy, which often means you don’t have time to keep up to date with what is happening in the world of science. Why not come and join us for three, one hour updates over the academic year.
Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) Training (INT466)
Eligibility: This course is open to teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants, SENCos and teachers from any infant, junior, primary or secondary school in South Gloucestershire and close surrounding areas.
The ELSA project aims to help schools to build the capacity to meet the needs of a wide range of emotionally vulnerable pupils.
Mediated Learning Support Asistant/Approach - MeLSA (INT450)
Eligibility: This course is open to teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants, SENCos and teachers from any infant, junior, primary and secondary school in South Gloucestershire and close surrounding areas.
MeLSA provides training to individuals (called MeLSAs) that work directly with children and young people, to assist them to become a more skilled and independent learner.
Preparing for Year End (INT546)
Eligibility: This course is open to business managers and finance staff from any South Gloucestershire maintained school only.
This course will provide both new and experienced staff with all the information needed to prepare their accounts and outline what the Council requirements and deadlines are for 2025-26.
Schools' Finance Bitesize: Creating and Updating a Contracts Register (INT547)
Eligibility: This course is open to business managers and finance staff from any South Gloucestershire maintained infant, junior, primary or secondary school.
Schools' Finance Bitesize: Understanding a school's Funding Certificate (INT548)
Eligibility: This course is open to business managers and finance staff from any South Gloucestershire maintained school only.
The school funding certificate is issued to every maintained school in South Gloucestershire by Corporate Finance. This session will explain what a school’s funding certificate is and how it is calculated.
Schools' Finance: AEF Management Report (INT550)
Eligibility: This course is open to business managers and finance staff from any South Gloucestershire maintained schools only.