Twilights
All Briarwood Twilights are booked via Eventbrite.
Safeguarding Learners with Complex Needs
This session provides a practical and theoretical understanding of safeguarding in the context of complex SEND. Learners will explore the specific vulnerabilities faced by children and young people with complex needs, understand signs of abuse or neglect, and learn how to respond appropriately to safeguarding concerns. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Phonics for Pupils with SEND
This session will focus on exploring the importance of a systematic phonics reading programme in developing early reading skills. It will look into the research behind phonics, the prerequisite skills and how phonics can be differentiated for varied learning styles and needs as students move through the levels. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Implementing Positive Behaviour Support: A Comprehensive Guide
This session will provide a detailed introduction to Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). Learners will look into PBS as an evidence-based approach to supporting behavioural change. By the end of this session, you will understand the research and rationale that makes PBS a universally accepted best-practice model and why its successful implementation is considered key to supporting behaviours that challenge. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Practice & Principles: Maths through play for students with SEND
This session will inspire ideas for supporting children to explore and understand mathematical concepts through independent play-based learning, using a variety of resources such as Numicon. It aims to help all staff within a setting understand how to scaffold this learning, to support the best outcomes for students. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Building & Maintaining Staff Resilience in SEND Settings
This session will focus on research-based techniques to build and maintain your resilience and that of your team. It aims to develop an understanding of:
- Growth mindset
- Physical and emotional wellbeing
- Strong social networks
- Effective Communication
- Positive habits
- Collaboration and teamwork
This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Relationships & Sex Education in SEND
Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) is a complex and sensitive subject that requires high-quality, meaningful teaching approaches. This session will reflect on the importance of RSE, explore the approach to teaching this subject with SEND pupils and how we differentiate across cohorts to ensure the content is accessible and relevant. We also cover the importance of using clear language, as well as differentiating complex subject content themes. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Briarwood Techie Awards
The Briarwood Techie Awards are only offered internally and in-person. They are run in an informal way to allow staff to improve their IT skills generally or more specifically, if there's an area/programme you require specific support with. There are three levels of award, all of which run concurrently in each session.
The Bronze Award is focused on learning how to use a phone, device or laptop to access school systems and cover the basics, including:
- login to almost everything we use, including emails and other web based software (SeeSaw, BehaviourWatch etc)
- Find, run and change PowerPoint on Teacher's Drive.
- Print something
- Take photos on a school device and transfer to the PC
- Learn how to run some simple games on HelpKidzLearn
The Silver Award is about learning how to better support the children, including:
- Create an "ICT Profile" for a child in your class - learn about their skills, motivators and next steps
- Make some Boardmaker symbols to support them
The Gold Award has four sections:
- Make an Interactive Boardmaker activity
- Make a "Choose It Maker" resource for your class
- Add Boardmaker symbols to a Twinkl powerpoint
- Disconnect all the leads and dongles from a smartboard and plug them back in again.
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Trauma Informed Practice: Protecting Childhood Wellbeing
This session aims to help you understand the definition of trauma, how trauma can impact a pupil's emotional and physical wellbeing and what can be done to create a supportive school environment that is trauma informed. This will help you to develop a trauma informed perspective that will guide your practice and interactions with the aim of reducing the negative impact of trauma within school. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Anti-bullying & SEND
This session will look to develop your understanding of:
- The prevalence of bullying of disabled children and young people and those with SEN
- What the factors are that mean these children and young people specifically are more likely to experience bullying
- Disablist language
- How to embed a proactive anti-bullying curriculum
This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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From Research to Practice: Cognitive Science in SEND teaching
This session will look into the role and significance of cognitive science, linking to research compiled by the Education Endowment Fund (EEF) in the context of SEND. We will look into how cognitive science translates into quality teaching. The training will reflect on the seven aspects of cognitive science including:
- spaced learning
- interleaving
- retrieval practice
- managing cognitive load
- working with schemas
- multimedia learning
- embodied learning
This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Maths Mastery for Complex Learning Needs
This session explores the question of what Maths Mastery looks like for students with complex and severe learning difficulties. Linking to current research and the reasoning behind mathematical teaching approaches, the aim is to equip participants with an understanding of best practice and a skill set to better engage students with the subject. We will look into the use of representations and scaffolding techniques to support memory retention. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Creating Capable Learning Environments
This session will explore different ways to create learning environments that are conducive to the needs of learners with SEND. We will examine elements such as classroom layout, sensory considerations, and resource management. By the end, you will understand how to design adaptable learning spaces that promote engagement, independence, and positive outcomes. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Quality Observations for Learning Assessments of SEND Students
This session will support all staff in improving and developing the writing of high-quality learning observations. This will make them more effective within monitoring progress, help with clarifying next steps and reducing workload overall by embracing a quality over quantity approach. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Understanding Multi-Sensory Impairment
This introductory session explores the various ways we can support students with multi-sensory impairment (MSI). We will focus on how MSI impacts pupils' access to learning, as well as the use of differentiated teaching strategies across the curriculum as a way to combat this. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Sensory Processing in Practice: Impact & Inclusion
This is an introductory session exploring sensory processing difficulties, including how individuals perceive and respond to sensory information in different ways. We will cover the impact of sensory differences on behaviour and learning, as well as discuss practical strategies to support individuals with sensory processing needs in various settings. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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My World in Focus: History & Geography in the SEND classroom
The 'My World' curriculum at Briarwood encompasses both historical and geographical learning skills, differentiated across a range of learning levels within SEND. In this session we will reflect on what makes highly effective practice, meaningful subject content and research-driven fundamentals underpinning effective teaching and learning. We will also look at how this applies to a variety of settings. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Introduction to Autism: Building Knowledge for Better Support
This session will provide an overview of autism, including key characteristics, strengths and the challenges associated with the condition. Participants will gain a better understanding of how autism may present in different individuals and explore strategies for effective support. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Diversity & SEND: Understanding, Supporting & Engaging
This session looks at the different ways we can teach diversity and inclusion to students with SEND. By the end, you will have a better understanding of diversity within a SEND setting, best practice approaches to supporting diversity and a greater confidence to have challenging conversations with students around the topic. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Implementing Positive Behaviour Support: A Comprehensive Guide
This session will provide a detailed introduction to Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). Learners will look into PBS as an evidence-based approach to supporting behavioural change. By the end of this session, you will understand the research and rationale that makes PBS a universally accepted best-practice model and why its successful implementation is considered key to supporting behaviours that challenge. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Not Just Play: the Importance of Outdoor Learning in SEND
In this session, learners will explore outdoor learning's holistic benefits for children and how we can most effectively plan to use the outdoors to develop learning across the curriculum. Through understanding how children are learning outside, we can consider how adults can best support them and discover how this can inform assessment of progress and next steps for the benefit of all children. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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Total Communication Approaches in SEND
This session will begin by discussing and exploring what communication-friendly classrooms look like for students with SEND. We will then look in detail at the various communication methods and how these can support students with learning and behaviour. There will be an opportunity to recap core Makaton signs, develop an awareness of SCERTS and focus on the importance of clear verbal instructions. This session combines essential theoretical knowledge with practical strategies and attendees' learning will be assessed through applied tasks at the end of the session.
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