Andrew Walls from Sidney Stringer Academy presents the journey the trust embarked in transforming and centralising the IT infrastructure across all of its schools.

📎 Case Study: Centralised IT Network and Staffing in a MAT

• Building a centralised WAN so that you can run your MAT IT as if it is a single school
• Cost efficiencies and performance gains from pursuing a centralised MAT IT model
• Centralising staffing structures to provide clear leadership and the best service quality
• Implementing more progressive IT elements, such as G Suite and Cloud Technology, while retaining a familiar environment that makes the transition to the cloud and remote technologies easier for staff

💡 Andrew Walls, Assistant Principal (MAT IT), Sidney Stringer Academy

🏫 This session was recorded live on 14th November 2019 in the Tech Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

What is the best approach to pupil behaviour in class? In his presentation Tom Bennet presents the key findings of the Independent Review of Behaviour in Schools 2017, and discusses the resulting recommendations.

📎 How Can We Raise Standards of Behaviour in Schools?

• Examining the key issues illustrated in the Independent Review of Behaviour in Schools, 2017, and the resulting recommendations
• Discussing how behaviour audits can be utilised to create a data map of school behaviour to compare and benchmark schools over time
• Examining the common characteristics of schools that deal with behavioural issues and enable pupils to thrive in an outstanding learning environment
• An overview of the upcoming £10 million ‘behaviour network’ and its aims

💡 Tom Bennett, Independent Behaviour Advisor, Department for Education

📘 The review Creating a Culture: How school leaders can optimise behaviour can be found at this link.

🏫 This session was recorded live on 14th November 2019 on the Main Stage of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

Sue Wilkinson (AfPE) shares insights on the benefits of Physical Education, sport and Physical Activity on wellbeing of learners in primary and secondary schools. It also reiterates the importance of PE in the school curriculum, what funding is available and how to prepare for an Ofsted inspection.

📎 Improving Student Wellbeing through PE, Sport and Physical Activity

• Sharing the evidence of impact PESSPA 
• Re scaffolding the PE curriculum
• Embedding PESSPA across the whole school
• School culture and workforce issues

💡 Sue Wilkinson MBE, CEO, Association for Physical Education (AfPE)

🏫 This session was recorded live on 13th November 2019 in the School Improvement Summit of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

Stephen Morales (ISBL) leads this week's episode with a talk on how to plan a 5-year school budget. At the core is Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning, as an effort of joined-up leadership - with pedagogy, governance and business working seamlessly together.

📘 The presentation can be found at this link https://saashow.london/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/7.-Stephen-Morales.pdf 🔧 For more information on the ISBL's tool mentioned in the episode, you can visit this page https://isbl.org.uk/training/icfp.aspx

📎 School Budget Mastery: Curriculum Led Integrated Financial Planning 

• A focus on integrated curriculum-led financial planning and resource management in the context of an evolving national funding formula
• How to conduct a school budget review
• What methods to employ to ensure long-term good financial planning
• Why this will reduce practitioner workload long-term

💡 Stephen Morales, Chief Executive, ISBL

🏫 This session was recorded live on 13th November 2019 in the Business & Finance Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

In this episode Jen Persson (Defend Digital Me) shines a light on how schools can fairly collect children's data and the need for awareness on how commercial organisations use them.

📎 Who Needs to Be Told What? What Schools Must Do to Meet Their Duties on Data Protection and Privacy

• What does a day-in-the-life of a datafied child look like at your school, and can you explain it? 
• Do you understand how the National Pupil Database works and what you need to tell families? 
• What impact do emerging technologies have on your data processing duties? 
• Case studies from legal challenges and regulatory enforcement Security and privacy: How not to be the next news story

💡 Jen Persson, Director, Defend Digital Me 

🏫 This session was recorded live on 14th November 2019 in the Schools Improvement Summit of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

In this week's episode Leora Cruddas (CEO, Confederation of School Trusts) presents CST's assessment on the status of academies within society and the civic role they must play. CST believes that, because of high accountability and efficiency, the academy model should be taken as an example for the whole schools system; but at the same time the narrative on academies portrayed by the media needs to be improved. 

Civic Leadership – The Civic Role of School Trusts 

• Why schools and trusts need to be part of a community which is engaged, supportive and shares objectives
• How larger trusts can use their capability and capacity to act with other civic partners, as large employers in an area
• How smaller trusts can work with their local authority to advance education as a public good in their community
• Exploring the new narrative around civic partnerships and civic leadership against the background of deep economic and social changes happening today

 Leora Cruddas, CEO, Confederation of School Trusts 

This session was recorded live on 13th November 2019 in the MAT Summit of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

Listen to Steve Baker's insightful presentation on how brain development influences behaviours and learning, and what educators need to consider when they interact with children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. 

Supporting Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties

• How the brain develops over time and what influence this has on behaviours and learning
• The impact of threat on our behaviours and the importance of positive relationships
• How to use non-confrontational approaches to modify behaviour over the long term

Steve Baker, Executive Headteacher, Kilgarth School 

This session was recorded live on 14th November 2019 in the SEND Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

This week's episode deals with one of the most pressing topic in education: teacher wellbeing. You can hear how both a research paper presented by Dr Bronwen Maxwell (Sheffield Institute of Education) and a case study from Woodland Academy Trust draw very similar conclusions on what is the best way forward. 

Wellbeing as Entitlement - Supporting Staff Wellbeing the WAT way

• Not just workload – improving the culture of support in your school
• The importance of adapting to greater working flexibility, such as ‘wellbeing days’
• Addressing staff retention, particularly why 40% of NQTs don’t make it through the first 5 year

Dan Morrow, CEO, Woodland Academy Trust 

Schools as Great Places to Work: Promoting Early-Career Teacher Wellbeing

A copy of the article Supporting and inhibiting the well-being of early career secondary school teachers: extending self-determination theory written by Prof Andrew J Hobson (Education Research Centre, University of Brighton) and Dr Bronwen Maxwell, can be found at this link http://shura.shu.ac.uk/13860/4/Maxwell%20-%20supporting%20and%20inhibiting%20the%20well-being%20of%20early.pdf

Dr Bronwen Maxwell, Head of Commissioned Research and Deputy Head of Centre for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Sheffield Institute of Education 

These sessions were recorded live on 13th November 2019, in the Recruitment & Workforce Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

What obstacles do women face in the EdTech sector and what can be done to make sure that more women are promoted into leadership roles in the education sector?

Listen to this week's episode where Debbie Clinton, member of the GovNet Education Advisory Board, leads this panel of successful women, discussing their experience:

• Ensure every school leader is a leader of EdTech and innovation
• Highlight the importance of mentoring and networks such as WomenED
• Diversity guidance – what is there available?
• What is the risk of not promoting women leaders?

Chair: Debbie Clinton, CEO, Academy Transformation Trust

Kirsty Grundy, Principal, Shireland Technology Primary & Primary Director, Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust

Jules Daulby, National Leader of #WomenEd, Education Consultant and Writer, Women Edtech 

Bukky Yusuf, Science Lead, Edith Kay School

This panel was recorded live on 13th November 2019 in the Tech Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

What role do schools play in protecting children online? Listen to advice and insights provided by Adam Medlycott (CEOP Education Officer, National Crime Agency) and Alison Watts (Chair e-Safety Safeguarding Board, Children’s Services, Buckinghamshire County Council).

Keeping Children Safe Online with Thinkuknow 

• Gain insight into children’s lives online
• Learn about the evolving online threat, informed by National Crime Agency intelligence
• Get access to resources, support and tools to help education professionals deliver online safety education

Implementing the E-safety Ambassador Programme in Schools

• Involve young people in helping their peers on e-safety matters
• Understand e-safety issues and positively influence online behaviours
• Deliver e-safety message to schools
• Advise young people and direct them to the right resources

These sessions were recorded live on 13th and 14th November 2019, in the Tech Theatre of the Schools & Academies Show at the NEC in Birmingham.