After the Bell

Welcome back to a brand new series of After The Bell; your weekly education podcast from Connex Academy.

Today we continue our brand new series of After the Bell podcasts on The Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants brought to you by Connex Academy. As a learning provider for training and CPD for schools, we are critically aware of developing all staff in the workforce, not just teachers.

The Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants are split into four themes which each contain several standards. The first of these is Personal and Professional Conduct.

In order for teaching assistants to provide effective support to teachers and pupils, they need to be clear about their role and responsibilities and how these fit within the wider structure of the school. In this podcast, we discuss what best practice in this area looks like.

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Welcome back to a brand new series of After The Bell; your weekly education podcast from Connex Academy. Today we continue our new series of After the Bell podcasts on The Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants. As a learning provider for training and CPD for schools, we are critically aware of developing all staff in the workforce, not just teachers.

We are all very aware of the importance of the Teacher Standards, but the Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants are much less well-known. In this series of podcasts, we will explore these standards, consider what they are and how they can be used, and explore how schools can support TAs to meet these standards, allowing TAs to thrive in their career and have the biggest possible impact on the students they work with.

The Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants are split into four themes, each containing several standards. The first of these is Personal and Professional Conduct. For teaching assistants to provide practical support to teachers and pupils, they need to be clear about their roles and responsibilities and how these fit within the wider structure of the school. In this podcast, we discuss what best practice in this area looks like.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to ensuring that schools and their staff are supported with as much training as possible to ensure children in their care are kept safe and are supported. The latest updates for Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance were published on 6th June outlining new changes and requirements for schools to their safeguarding duties ready for September 2023.

Our guest today is Ella Savell-Boss our guest expert and Ella will be walking us through the updates and changes.

Ella delivers safeguarding training sessions, keynotes, and chairs national safeguarding conferences. She also supports schools internationally Ella is always passionate about safeguarding and child protection and ensures she helps to provide effective training and advice and guidance.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate.

Today we are joined by Jon Bull, the CEO and founder of The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust. The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust aim to provide stories and resources from schools and parents to help support their children to learn about staying safe in a fun and age-appropriate way in their day-to-day lives and in their local community. Another new existing project they are involved in is

'The Digital Media Detectives Project'.

Connex Academy is proud to partner with The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust, you can find out more by visiting our partner's page on Connex-academy.com. Thank you for listening to our series of podcasts focusing on social value and the levelling-up agenda.

You can pick up our After the Bell podcasts are released on a weekly basis and provide quick tips and discussions with our experts around all things educational on your daily commute, on your treadmill or as your focus for the day.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate.

In today's episode, Georgie is joined by Jon Bull, CEO and founder of The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust. The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust aim to provide stories and resources from schools and parents to help support their children to learn about staying safe in a fun and age-appropriate way in their day-to-day lives and in their local community. Their most recent project is called The Ask Series.

Connex Academy is proud to be partnering with The Dog, Duck and Cat Trust, you can find out more by visiting our partners page on Connex-academy.com. Thank you for listening to our series of podcasts focusing on social value and the levelling up agenda.

You can pick up our After the Bell podcasts are released on a weekly basis and provide quick tips and discussions with our experts around all things educational on your daily commute, on your treadmill or as your focus for the day.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate.

In this week's podcast, we are joined by Jenny Bailey, Co-Founder and Author at Tales from Mother Earth. An eco-publishing company is producing children's audio/picture storybooks. In response to the climate crisis, the impact on our wildlife and to boost children's mental health, their work aims to ignite the conservationist in all of us, especially children (3 -10 years) all told from the point of view of Mother Earth. Let’s meet Jenny and some of her characters including Spike the Hedgehog and Stanley the Water Vole.

We all need to be raising awareness among the young, around the threats our wildlife is facing. I love how Tales from Mother Earth is reconnecting and empowering children with the natural world in a positive way. Connex Academy is proud to partner with Tales from Mother Earth, you can find out more by visiting Connex-academy.com.

Thank you for listening to our series of podcasts focusing on social value and the levelling-up agenda. You can pick up our After the Bell podcasts are released on a weekly basis and provide quick tips and discussions with our experts around all things educational on your daily commute, on your treadmill or as your focus for the day.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. We are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate.

In April 2022 the Department for Education published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. Part of the climate change focus also looks at the environment and how we educate our families and children to care for and protect their surrounding environment for future generations. In our series of podcasts, we meet with organisations that are investing in our children by educating them about climate change and how they can make a difference.

I am joined today by Giles Doland, Chair of Green Roof Organisation and Jenny Bailey, Co-Founder and Author at Tales from Mother Earth. We all need to be raising awareness among the young, around the threats our wildlife is facing. We love how Tales from Mother Earth is reconnecting and empowering children with the natural world in a positive way. It’s also wonderful to hear how GRO members are positively promoting the need for living green roofs that support nature and generate solar energy.

Connex Academy is proud to be partnering with Tales from Mother Earth and supporting World Green Roof Day on 6th June, you can find out more by visiting or Connex-academy.com.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate.

In April 2022 the Department for Education published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. Part of the climate change focus also looks at the environment and how we educate our families and children to care for and protect their surrounding environment for future generations. Last week’s podcast looked at the environmental education initiative, Our Classroom Climate.

There is no Planet B, As part of our commitment to the strategy, we have also partnered with Bee1 which is an organisation established to increase awareness and educate everyone about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our natural ecosystem. I am joined again today by Mark Douglas, founder of Our Classroom Climate and also Bee1. Mark joins us today to share about Bee1 and their story.

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Welcome back to After the Bell brought to you by Connex Academy. Here at Connex Academy we are committed to using our business to create positive social change in the communities in which we operate. Levelling Up is at the heart of everything we do. We are driven by the principle that people have basic fundamental rights, irrespective of postcode. The Six key areas of our social value policy are:

• Quality of education
• Social Mobility
• Health & Wellbeing
• Environment
• Equal Opportunities and Inclusion
• Accountability

In April 2022 the Department for Education published its Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy. They identified that it was critically important that teachers have the appropriate knowledge, skills and resources in climate education to educate our children. And equally important that our children are educated from an early age. As part of our commitment to the strategy, we have partnered with Our Classroom Climate and Georgie is joined today by Mark Douglas, the founder of Our Classroom Climate.

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Welcome to this special edition episode of 'After the Bell' podcast series, where we delve into the critical topic of safeguarding.

**Please note that the content discussed may be triggering, and we urge listeners to seek support if necessary**

Our guest, Debbie Innis Turnill, brings 30 years of teaching experience and is also an independent safeguarding consultant and lecturer at Birmingham University.

Join us as Debbie shares insights from the NSPCC education report, "Learning from Case Reviews."

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