Achieving Excellence with your Gifted & Talented Pupils - SOLD OUT - London

Programme

09:00 – 09:45		Registration, refreshments and exhibition
09:45 – 10:00		Chair’s Introduction and Welcome John Senior, Education Consultant and Author
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote 1		Identifying G&T pupils: ensuring your school’s identification strategy is a continuous, whole-school process to ensure no student is forgotten Ian McNiff, Director of Education, Clifton Diocese
10:30 – 11:00 Keynote 2		Differentiation: practically embedding gifted education within your school, and tailoring it to meet the needs of individual students Ian Warwick, Senior Director, London Gifted & Talented
11.00 – 11.10		Questions
11:10 – 11:40		Morning refreshments and exhibition
11.40 – 12.10 Keynote 3		Gifted and Talented Education in England Today Tim Dracup, Independent Consultant in Gifted and Talented Education
12:10 – 13:00		Streamed sessions
1A				1B	1C	1D
Differentiating learning in the classroom: practical strategies for adapting schemes of work to the level and pace of your very able students Ian Warwick, Senior Director, London Gifted & Talented				Identifying underachieving pupils: help your more able students make better progress to improve your value added scores Mike Herrity, Assistant Headteacher, Twynham School	Placing creativity at the heart of G&T education to raise aspirations and promote divergence amongst your students Zoe Elder, G&T Learning Manager, The Learning Team, North Somerset Council	Engaging with families: getting parents on board to provide valuable support for their very able child John Senior, Education Consultant and Author
13:00 – 14:00		Lunch and exhibition
14:00 – 14:30 Keynote 4		The new Ofsted framework: achieving ‘outstanding’ in G&T education Peter Limm HMI, Specialist Adviser for Gifted & Talented, Ofsted
14:30 – 15:20		Streamed sessions
2A				2B	2C	2D
Differentiating learning in the classroom: practical strategies for adapting schemes of work to the level and pace of your very able students Zoe Elder, G&T Learning Manager, The Learning Team, North Somerset Council				Using Personal, Learning and Thinking skills to increase the creativity and resilience of your very able pupils Jackie Beere OBE, AST, SIP and Former Headteacher	Enrichment activities: develop the leadership skills of gifted students to promote self awareness and proactive attitudes (secondary only) Liz Hague, Creative Associate, MakeBelieve Arts	Enrichment activities: develop the leadership skills of gifted students to promote self awareness and proactive attitudes (primary only) Alice Edwards, Creative Projects Coordinator, MakeBelieve Arts
15:20 – 15:40		Afternoon refreshments and exhibition
15.40 – 16.30	Streamed sessions
3A				3B	3C	3D
Practical strategies to ensure sufficient challenge for G&T pupils in the classroom (secondary only) John Senior, Education Consultant and Author				Practical strategies to ensure sufficient challenge for G&T pupils in the classroom (primary only) Robert Cox, Education Consultant	Using the ‘pupil voice’: tap into the talents of your very able students to ensure they contribute to school improvement Jackie Beere OBE, AST, SIP and Former Headteacher	Leadership at all levels: the role of middle and senior leaders in developing and sustaining G&T provision Ann Bridgland, Education Consultant
16.30			Conference close