Villiers Park Educational Trust
As experts in Gifted and Talented education, we inspire teachers and post-16 students from all backgrounds towards better teaching and learning.
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A Post-16 Gifted and Talented Student Manifesto
School is just a part of life but get it right and the rest will follow
Company of Angels was set up in 2001 by John Retallack to foster and produce innovative theatre for young audiences. The company's mission is to broaden the definition of theatre for young people through experimental projects and new productions of high artistic standard.
How migrants fuel Britain's boom town
At Lea nursery school in Wexham Road, Slough, it's story time. Fourteen children sit on the carpet, attention rapt, as Khairan Nisa reads The Little Red Hen. First, she tells it in English, and then repeats it in Urdu. Finally, her assistant Wioleta Kostecka translates it into her native Polish.
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Exciting new International Programme for Senior School Leaders, Business Managers and Headteachers!
NCSL’s new International Leadership Learning Programme offers a unique opportunity to reflect upon leadership in an international context. This programme is now open to Senior School Leaders and School Business Managers as well as Headteachers and enables school leaders or explore a variety of themes pertinent to schools and system wide development.
The International Leadership Learning Programme (ILLP) not only offers senior school leaders an excellent professional development opportunity, it is also designed to have a positive impact on school and system development. Ideal for those who wish to develop their own leadership capacity and that of others and who are committed to implementing changes to benefit their school/ organisation and sharing their learning to benefit others.
For more information on this exciting and subsidised opportunity please register your interest with David Charlton at david.charlton@ncsl.org.uk or visit our site on www.ncsl.org.uk
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"Six Debates Weekly" is an A4 sheet with some facts and six suggested debates about a current controversial issue in the news. It comes out 38 times a year - not appearing during school holidays. It's sent out as a Microsoft Word attachment to an email on the Friday before the Monday publication date. It works with Years 7 - 13. It costs £110 for a year's subscription. Interested teachers can take four issues free before deciding whether or not to place an order. The latest issue was SDW 385. Back copies are available from the archive on the website www.chweekly.co.uk where chweekly stands for Contemporary History Weekly, the publishers of Six Debates Weekly.
A Key Stage 2 version of the sheet is published every fortnight as Friday Fortnightly Debates aimed at Years 5 and 6.
A Teacher's Guide is available. It describes on two pages of A4 five keys to successful classroom discussion and debate with a group of 30.
Learning to Lead
Learning to Lead is a training and consultancy organisation born out of a concern for the lack of opportunity for genuine student involvement in the life of school communities.
Weston Education Partnership Student Parliament
The Student Parliament receives School Council reports from representatives and identifies key issues for discussion at Parliament level.
http://www.westonep.org.uk/federation/student_parliament.htm
Langleywood School: A Community That Cares
At Langleywood School the individual is nurtured within a strong community environment and equal importance is placed on academic achievement alongside the qualities of the individual.
Click here for more information about the NET Invitation Seminar: English as an Additional Language held at Langleywood School
http://www.langleywood.slough.sch.uk
Somervale School
is a friendly, exciting and forward looking school where each individual is cared for and where staff and students work together to high standards.
Click here for the 'Case Study Super Learning Days Somervale School'
http://www.somervale.bathnes.sch.uk
Thamesview School
Visit the state-of-the-art, newly opened, £1.2m vocational centre which has played its part in providing a first class educational environment at Thamesview.
http://www.thamesview.kent.sch.uk
