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The School and Academies Event 2021

Online Event 23 March 2021, 8:00am - 25 March 2021, 3:45pm

Day 1
8:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
David Wells, Head of Teacher Education, School of Education and Communities, University of East London
9:35am
Keynote Address: The Future Of Schools And Academies
Richard Harty, Dean of School of Education and Communities, University of East London
9:55am
Questions And Answers Session
10:05am
Business, Bench-Marking and Financial Management
  • Ensuring effective oversight and governance
  • Using resources efficiently to improve educational outcomes for pupils
  • Commissioning and procurement– supporting schools to achieve great value for money
  • Effective and efficient financial reporting
  • What happens after Covid 19?
Tanya Arkle, Deputy Director, Schools Resource Management Division, Education and Skills Funding Agency & Non-Executive Director, Diocese of Bristol Academies Trust
10:25am
Case Study: SD-WAN – Choosing the Right Path with Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN

SD-WAN helps you deliver a more efficient and cost effective WAN for multi-branch networks, whilst implementing application driven WAN policies and performance. Not all SD-WAN solutions are equal however. Join us to discuss the evolution of SD-WAN, the need for security, and the extension of SD-WAN concepts into the branch itself.


David Nicoll, Business Development Manager, Fortinet
10:45am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
Special Keynote: “Regularity of Funding: Why We Care”Education

Delivering Value For Money Across Education  

Colin Wilcox, Financial Audit Director, Department for Education, National Audit Office
11:55am
Case Study: Empowering youth to manage their own mental health and wellbeing
  • Key challenges facing children and young adults
  • Why youth are best placed to find solutions to poor mental health
  • The role of technology and innovation in supporting students
  • Reaching hard-to-reach young adults
  • How to measure progress; what does success in wellbeing look like?
Nathalie Richards, CEO and Founder of EduKit
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:25pm
Lunch And Networking
1:25pm
Afternoon Keynote: Connecting And Supporting Executive And Governance Leaders
  • Giving children a better future
  • Helping our local communities thrive by giving children the best opportunities to learn inside and outside the classroom
  • Improving and maintaining high educational standards
  • Advancing education for public benefit
  • Understanding what is the future shape of the education system in England
Leora Cruddas, Chief Executive, Confederation of School Trusts
1:45pm
Special Keynote: The Future Of Governance
  • Effective school governance in challenging times
  • Learning lessons from a pandemic
  • Embedding ethical and accountable governance
Emma Knights, Chief Executive, National Governors Association
2:05pm
Questions And Answers Session
2:15pm
Networking Break
2:45pm
Case Study: The life-long benefits of physically active learning
  • What does active learning look like?
  • The inextricable link between physical & mental health
  • The power of active learning in enhancing engagement, attitudes & self-esteem
  • The impact of an active curriculum on outcomes across the school
  • Some examples of how we deliver physically active learning at Holy Family
Steve Tindall, Headteacher, Holy Family Catholic Primary
3:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:25pm
Chair's Closing Remarks
Day 2
8:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair’s Welcome Address
David Wells, Head of Teacher Education, School of Education and Communities, University of East London
9:35am
Keynote Address: The Central Role Of Technology In Schools And Academies
  • Levelling up digital capability in education and care
  • Addressing the barriers to the good use of technology
  • Learning from the impact of covid-19 on teaching and learning
  • Understanding the latest Government investment in Technology in education
Katherine Moulds, Digital and Remote Education Strategy, Department of Education
9:55am
Questions And Answers Session
10:05am
Case Study: Realistic and Practical EdTech Use / Strategy for Schools post-Covid
  • Empowering Schools to make well-informed, independent, practical choices
  • Implementing technologies that genuinely enhance teaching and learning processes for children and staff who are not tech-specialists
  • What do schools need to focus on as the use of digital technologies in schools accelerates?
Giles Hill, Digital Learning Lead, Aspire Academy Trust, DfE EdTech Demonstrator School
10:45am
Questions And Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
The Role Of EdTech In Education
  • What will the future of digital learning look like?
  • Accelerating digital transformation across Schools
  • Developing online learning and strategy in Schools
  • Creating virtual learning systems to close the widening educational gap
Dr Neelam Parmar, Director of Educational Technology, Digital Learning and Innovation, Ashford School, United Learning
11:55am
Case Study: iPresence
Chris Christophers, Remote Presence Specialist
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:25pm
Lunch And Networking
1:25pm
Ensuring The Best Value For Money For The Taxpayer And Best Outcomes For Schools
  • Delivering new, world-class schools and creating thousands of good school places for future generations of children.
  • Supporting improvements and efficiencies in the wider school estate.
  • Understand the scale of the challenge and the property landscape
Will Attlee, Associate Director of Development, LocatED
1:45pm
Remote Working – How Do you Maintain Privacy?
  • A privacy perspective on the benefits and pitfalls of remote working, from keeping your private life private, to making sure that your staff and pupils’ privacy is respected. Sometimes this is an interesting balance to achieve.
Lesley Holmes, Data Protection Officer, MHR
2:05pm
Questions And Answers Session
2:15pm
Networking Break
2:45pm
Case Study: 2021 Vision: The Necessity of Technology for the Catch-Up Curriculum and How to Select Edtech, which Delivers Results

Abdul will share his thoughts on what should happen in 2021 as the necessity of technology for the catch-up curriculum grows. Also, how to select edtech which delivers results in every classroom, including:

  • How EdTech helps with consistency: good schools are consistent and outstanding schools are consistently good.
  • The impact of collaboration and shared learning.
  • The importance of non-negotiables when selecting EdTech.
  • How to reap the considerable benefits that a move to EdTech can bring.
  • Abdul will also include his five top tips for a successful shift to EdTech and some useful apps to try.
Abdul Chohan, Vice President of Learning at Showbie Inc
3:05pm
Case Study: Creating a Rich Learning Environment
  • How improved parental engagement have increased attainment scores by 30%.
  • How they try to maximise progress in the short time children are at their school
  • The role parents play in improving attainment
  • How technology helps them communicate to parents who speak 33 languages
  • How they use technology to help parents support their children at home
  • The use of tech to help ease the pressure on teachers and reduce workload
  • Examples of the difference a positive education experience makes to the pupils
  • What changes teachers can make to improve parental engagement in their classroom
  • The technologies available to help and how teachers can use them.
Andrew Sharp, Headteacher, Pear Tree Junior School
3:25pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:40pm
Chair’s Closing Address
Day 3
8:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
David Wells, Head of Teacher Education, School of Education and Communities, University of East London
9:35am
Keynote Address: Building A School System Of High Excellence, In Which Teachers And Pupils Flourish
  • Improving standards by continuing to strengthen the knowledge, collaboration and expertise of our teachers
  • Building a system that benefits teachers
  • Giving our teachers and leaders the tools to develop, to confidently hone their skills of pedagogy, curriculum design and assessment
  • Enabling schools to drive excellence based on the knowledge and confidence of what works for their setting
  • Shaping the future of teaching by confident, informed teachers as part of a rapidly changing expert profession
Dame Professor Alison Peacock, Chief Executive, The Chartered College of Teaching
9:55am
Panel discussion: Improving student opportunities by Investing in Innovation

Red Kite learning trust panel discussion

Terry Guy, Interview Co-ordinator and Public Sector Account Director, Nviron, Dave Noble, Director of Operations, Red Kite Trust, Dave Burns, IT Director, Red Kite Trust and Adam Daly, Principal, Crawshaw Academy
10:15am
Returning To Routine Inspections
  • Learning from interim visits and monitoring inspections – our experiences so far
  • Returning to the education inspection framework (EIF) post-COVID-19
  • Raising standards and measuring the quality of education
Lee Owston HMI, Programme Director, School Inspection Improvement, Ofsted
10:35am
Case Study: One Team Logic
Mike Glanville, Co-Founder and Director of Safeguarding Services
10:55am
Questions and Answers Session
11:05am
Networking Break
11:35am
Special Keynote: School Improvement through People Development
  • Leading for effective teaching quality and collaboration across schools
  • Using professional development and appraisal as effective school improvement tools
  • Creating a culture that supports success and teamwork within and across schools
  • Selecting and partnering with the highest quality CPD providers using Quality Assurance (QA) principles
David Weston, Chief Executive Officer, Teacher Development Trust
11:55am
Building An Education System Where Every Child Can Thrive
  • Closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers
  • Championing the role of professional development in closing the gap
  • Challenge thinking about educator development
  • Applying academic rigour to our learning design, along with frontline insights into what works
  • Building a sustainable, high-impact career that is right for each educator as they develop
  • Embedding teaching and leadership expertise in our education system to help end the inequality that still faces many young people from disadvantaged background
Katy Patten, Dean, Learning Design, Ambition Institute
12:15pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:25pm
Lunch And Networking
1:25pm
Special Keynote: Fighting For Deep Social Justice
  • Working with schools and partners to shape a fair and world-class education system
  • Developing opportunities for young people from deprived backgrounds
Sue Williamson, Chief Executive Officer, SSAT, the Schools, Students and Teachers Network
1:45pm
Afternoon Keynote: Social Mobility And Education
  • Ensuring disadvantaged students are not left behind
  • Addressing the widening gap that Covid makes inevitable
  • Address the impact of poverty on children and the lifetime issues that it creates
  • Increasing participation in elite education by those from disadvantaged and marginalised background


Sammy Wright, Commissioner - Leads for the Commission on Schools and Academies
2:05pm
Questions And Answers Session
2:15pm
Networking Break
2:45pm
Supporting Our Most Vulnerable Students to Thrive in Mainstream Schools
  • Identifying trends for vulnerable students
  • Trauma-informed practice and accessible mental health support
  • Recovery and reintegration after lockdown
Jack Reynolds, Co-Director and Head of Safeguarding Football Beyond Borders
3:05pm
Digital Access for All
  • Ensuring that every individual, family and school child has the access they need at home to the digital world to support and enhance their learning and their lives
  • Understanding what’s needed and by who in eliminating the digital divide
Paul Finnis, Chief Executive, Learning Foundation
3:25pm
Questions And Answers Session
3:40pm
Chair’s Closing Address
3:40pm
Consultation

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