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    Conference: Making a Difference for Pupils from Under-Resourced Backgrounds (INT503)

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    Course overview



    Eligibility: This course is open to Headteachers and senior leaders from any infant, junior, primary or secondary school.

    The morning session led by Matt Bromley explores what schools can do to drive social justice, ensuring a child’s birth is not also their destiny. Schools need to take a learner-led not label-led approach and convert the causes of disadvantage into tangible classroom consequences. Then move from equality to equity and do more for those who start with less, including in the form of: · Quality first teaching · Adaptive teaching · Academic interventions · Extra-curricular and enrichment Matt Bromley is CEO of BEE and Chair of the Building Equity in Education Campaign.

    He is a practicing teacher, an education journalist for various education magazines and the Yorkshire Post.  He is an author of numerous best-selling books and co-hosts an award-winning podcast.  He is an advisor with over twenty-five years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and academy principal, further education college vice principal, and multi-academy trust director. Matt is a public speaker, trainer, initial teacher training lecturer, and school improvement advisor.

    During the afternoon session, we will be hearing from colleagues in South Gloucestershire who have been leading work to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils, sharing practical insights and approaches.

    Learning outcomes

    As a result of this course, you will have knowledge and skills in the following areas:

    • Understand why disadvantaged students perform less well on average and the lifelong consequences of this 
    • Understand the importance of moving beyond labels and redefining disadvantage for your setting 
    • Appreciate the importance of taking an evidence-informed approach and understand how to balance external and internal sources of evidence 
    • Know how to take a tiered approach to support, and appreciate the central tenets of quality first teaching, adaptive teaching, and effective additional interventions 
    • Appreciate the importance of inclusion and belonging and have explored some of the push and pull factors of school 
    • Understand the link between disadvantage and attendance and have strategies for reducing absence and persistent absence

    Charges

    This course is free to South Gloucestershire schools and academies.  

    The charge for any other school outside of South Gloucestershire  is: £ 50 per delegate.

    If this course has a cost, your school will be charged via statements or invoicing after the session.  Please ensure you cancel your place if you can no-longer attend as you may still be charged. 

    Please refer to our terms and conditions for more information.

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