I need to think of some training that my Cover Supervisors and I can do. Any ideas??

[MaureenMLove]

We've got an Academic day in January, so obviously there will be no cover requirements that day.

My CPD officer has asked if there is anything we would benefit from, in the form of training, but I'm a bit stumped!

All my CS's have done classroom management, starters and plenaries, behaviour management, child protection, bit of SEN stuff, voice training, ALAN training, but tbh, I'm running out of ideas!

CS's aren't important enough (yet!) to have anything on a national basis that they have to be trained in, so I am looking to you lot, to give me some ideas!

The only alternative is the new initiative that the school has just introduced, which is WellBeing. The CPD officer is trying to inject some enthausiasm in the staff, to get them together as often as possible. Happy, social workforce = happy smiley students, more A*-C, more money!

Your thoughts please, if you wouldn't mind!

Oh, it's also on my birthday, so do you think a Wellbeing CPD in the pub would work!!

Have all your staff had their three-yearly Child Protection training?

Yep! Couldn't be fresher. We did a whole school training on it, at our INSET on Friday!

First Aid course?

Got it! I forgot that one. We are nearly all standby first aiders. Another first aid course is booked for the Spring, for those that missed out last time.

There's nothing left, is there? We must be practically perfect!

Diversity training?

why do cS haev to do all that started and plenary crap?
they arent teahcers

midn you even some of us who are thinkg its shit

if oyu arent a teacher Marueen how are you to know?

Social enhancement - far too much emphasis an academics in schools more work on social areas or how to incorporate them more into curriculum.

our local secondary school did a well being day for staff;
a yoga class, a manicure, a massage, a talk from a dietician, a mini-health check plus as it was Autumn they were all offerd a flu jab.
local PCT provided a lot of it

hth

or if your school is challenging what about restraining training??

Ros Wilson Big writing - fun ideas for supporting pupils with sentence structure, punctuation, connectives etc.

Or try and get them to pay for a guy whose name I've forgotten but is the messiah of classroom management - really, really funny. If you want, I'll find out what his name is. I know you say you've done CM but he is brilliant - better than anything else you will have seen/done on it before, I promise.

ros wilson is making a lot of money out of tarting up the same old same old, no?

Ros doesn't actually train people herself now, which is a shame because, although most of it is fairly common knowledge, she is inspirational in the way she delivers it. She's getting on a bit now I guess and may well have made enough for a comfortable retirement!

Bullying (against the teachers prevention for the children)
Diversity
Signing
Outdoor learning(very very big atm)

yes, she has charisma. I just mean the whole Big Writing thang is making money from a very samey rehash.

goodness, I would disagree that there is an emphasis on teh academic side rather than the social.