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'Progress through Partnership'

'Progress through Partnership'
With Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Tuesday 21 May (2-4pm)
Westminster
This is an Invitation only event - contact Marc Rowland for more information.
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Primary Mathematics Conference 2013
"Making Warwickshire Count"

Friday 22 March 2013
Warwickshire Primary Improvement Team in partnership with the National Educational Trust
Presentations:
Every Child Counts: Edge Hill University
John D. F. Martin: Castle Hill Junior School
Rachael Horsman: Mount Grace School
St. Joseph's Catholic School
Paul Bennett Director, Primary School Leadership

Turning up the Volume on Pupil Voice Wednesday 20 March 2013
The Nobel School, Hertfordshire
Dr Maggie Atkinson
Alison Peacock
Amy Urso
Chaired by Marsha Carey-Elms

Education Innovation Exhibition and Conference 2013
Education Innovation
Friday/ Saturday 8/9 March 2013
NET Presentation: Collaboration not competition in primary schools

Closing the Achievement Gap
Thursday 28 February 2013
Westminster
Alex Cunningham MP
Kate Atkins Headteacher, Rosendale Primary School
Liz Bramley Headteacher, Oakdene Primary School
Juliette Jackson Headteacher, St Eugene’s RC Primary School
James Turner Director of Projects and Policy, The Sutton Trust
Robbie Coleman Research and Communications Manager, Education Endowment Foundation
Chaired by Pat Jefferson National Education Trust Trustee
Juliette Jackson: Closing the Attainment Gap
Liz Bramley: 'Share our journey!' Closing the Achievement Gap
James Turner and Robbie Coleman: Closing the achievement gap: How can evidence help?
Kate Atkins: Closing the Achievement Gap - Rosendale's story

Leading Your Children's Centre Inspection
Tuesday 26 February 2013
A course led by Roy Blatchford, Director of the National Education Trust and Lucy Sumner, NET Head of Early Education.
New North Academy, London, N1 8SJ

Creative Possibilities!
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Chelsea Open Air Nursery and Children's Centre, London, SW3 5JE
An afternoon at an outstanding setting with a rich history and international reputation. Attendees learnt about pedagogy, practice and creative leadership in the Early Years from Kathryn Solly, Head Teacher and Head Learner at Chelsea Open Air
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Tony Little Headmaster, Eton CollegeIf GCSE is broke, how should we fix it?
Tuesday 20 November 2012
Eton College
Tony Little Headmaster, Eton College
Sally Coates Principal, Burlington Danes Academy
Peter Hyman Headteacher, School 21
Joan McVittie President, ASCL
Chaired by Roy Blatchford
'Victorian-style' exams harm children's education

Following our highly successful event If GCSE is broke, how should we fix it? at Eton College, The National Education Trust plans to publish a collection of short essay on the future of GCSE, how it might be reformed or replaced. The Trust will lead and shape this debate into 2013.
If you would like to be involved, please send contributions of no more than 750 words to as soon as possible.

Making Britain Count
Friday 9 November 2012, Keystone Development Trust, Thetford Norfolk
Speakers include:
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare, Elizabeth Truss MP
Pamela Matty
Rachel de Souza
A renaissance in maths - Elizabeth Truss MP

Developing Your Primary Curriculum: A Journey to Outstanding
Wednesday 7 November 2012 3
Red Oaks Primary School, Swindon

Closing the Achievement Gap
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Oakdene Primary School, Stockton on Tees
Liz Bramley, Pat Jefferson, Ger Graus (The Children's University)
How do you choose a washing machine? – Creating meaningful research tools for schools: Dr Jonathan Sharples
Children’s University facts, figures and other bits... 2012: Ger Graus
Closing the Achievement Gap - Sharing the story of Oakdene Primary School

NImage courtesy of Wordleational Education Trust Third 'Annual Gathering' of Trustees, Associates, Leading Thinkers and Advocacy Schools
O Brave New World: What Kind of Leaders do Our Children Deserve?
National Education Trust - A brief history
Geoff Barton Headteacher, King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds
Wednesday 17 October 2012

The Future of the Past - The Importance of School History Teaching
In Partnership with the Wiener Library
Thursday 4 October 2012, London
Dr Nick Tate, Dr Toby Simpson & Penny Wild
Event presentations:
The Future of the Past - Nick Tate
How to Teach the Holocaust - Penny Wild
Why is history teaching in schools so important for The Wiener Library? - Toby Simpson

Curriculum Innovation in Primary Schools
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Park Primary School, Wirral CH44 5RN
Alison Peacock, Hilary Ryan, Paul Bennett & Pat Jefferson
Paul Bennett - The implications for leadership during curriculum change
Children, their World, their Education:
Cambridge Primary Review - Towards a new primary curriculum
Curriculum Innovation in Primary Schools Curriculum Innovation in Primary SchoolsCurriculum Innovation in Primary Schools

Creating an Outstanding Curriculum
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Red Oaks Primary School, Swindon, SN25 2AN
Terri Menham
Roy Blatchford
Delivering Education’s Progressive Promise: Using the Pupil Premium to Change Lives
Delivering Education’s Progressive Promise: Using the Pupil Premium to Change Lives
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg delivered the speech 'Delivering Education's Progressive Promise: Using the Pupil Premium to Change Lives’ on 14 May 2012.
Deputy Prime Minister: click to read the full text
The Independent: Nick Clegg defends pupil premium policy
News release - Deputy Prime Minister announces £10m to boost literacy for year sevens
Pamela Matty - Headteacher Grove School

Research, Policy & Practice: Redrawing the Boundaries
Part of the Coalition for Evidence Based Education events series
Supported by The Wellcome Trust
Thursday 3 May 2012 - 12.30pm-4.00pm
The Wellcome Trust (Gibbs Building) NW1 2BE
Baroness Estelle Morris,
Professor Kathy Sylva
Professor Derek Bell
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Organised by the National Education Trust, in conjunction with the Coalition for Evidence-Based Education (CEBE), this event explored effective working between research, policy and practice. Recent developments call for a fresh examination of the interface between these groups. Baroness Estelle Morris, former secretary of State for Education, talks about the political realities in using research evidence in policymaking.

What are schools doing with the Pupil Premium?
Thursday 22 March 2012
The New North Academy, 32 Popham Road, Islington N1 8SJ
David Laws MP
Gerard Doyle, Department for Education - Deprivation and the Pupil Premium
Pam Matty, Headteacher, Grove Primary School, Birmingham
Amanda Jennings, Headteacher, John Bramston Primary School
Peter Collins (Deputy HT), Slough and Eton Church of England Business and Enterprise College
Chaired by
Mike Gorman, Bath & NE Somerset LA
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Sixth Annual Lecture Sixth Annual Lecture
'From Downing Street to Free School'

Peter Hyman, Headteacher of School21, author of 1 Out Of 10 and formerly head of Prime Minister Tony Blair's strategic communications unit.
Wednesday 14 March 2012
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HL.
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The Future Use of Technology in Schools
Thursday 8 March 2012
With Dr Chris Yapp
Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School, Tower Hamlets
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Quality and Standards in Early Years
Thursday 1 March 2012
The New North Academy, 32 Popham Road, Islington N1 8SJ
Kath Townsley HMI
Caroline Sharp, NFER Research Director
Anne Nelson, National Early Years Education Consultant
Roy Blatchford
Louise Jackson
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Sixth Oxford Education Debate
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Oxford Brookes University
'Recruiting, training and retaining the best teachers'
Keynote by Andy Jones
Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University Vice Chair UCET
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Patterns in Play
Thursday 23 February 2012
Chelsea Open Air Nursery School and Children's Centre
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'School Wars' with Melissa Benn, Fiona Millar, Sally Coates and Roy Blatchford.
Thursday 9 February 2012
The New North Academy, 32 Popham Road, Islington N1 8SJ
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School Wars: NET invite

NET in association with Inner Temple: The Schools Project Open Day
Friday 11 November 2011
Inner Temple, London
Read Vivienne Watson's review of this event

Developing Values Education
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Revoe Primary School, Blackpool
The Impact of Values Education

Closing the Achievement Gap
Oxford
Thursday 13 October 2011
Keynote speaker: James Turner, the Sutton Trust


Attracting, Training and Retaining the Best Teachers
The Wellcome Trust, London
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Attracting, Training and Retaining the Best TeachersAttracting, Training and Retaining the Best Teachers
A submission to the Education Select Committee from the National Education Trust
October 2011

Roy Blatchford and Dr Tony Ashmore

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Dare to be Different: Curriculum Innovation through Art
The National Gallery
Friday 30 September 2011
Visiting a work of art - how do schools maximise the potential?
Ali Mawle, Head of Schools, National Gallery (click to see the presentation)
Art and Design at the Crossroads - Ways Forward
Dr John Steers, General Secretary for National Society for Education in Art & Design (click to see the presentation)
Curriculum Innovation & Curriculum Change - what works?
Philippa Cordingley, Chief Executive of Centre for the Use of Research in Education (click to see the presentation)

Dare to be Different: Curriculum Innovation through Music
The Wroxham School, Potters Bar
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Speakers include Alison Peacock and Dan Earley

What do you call a group of 50 (or so) music teachers banging on oil drums, upturned saucepans, a battered kitchen sink and sundry other metal objects? Read Sara Liptai's review of this event.

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