Finance Team // Room

Target Audience: All Staff  // Capacity: 30

Join members of our Finance Team for a practical session designed to support both teaching and non-teaching colleagues who are budget holders, or who want to understand what is expected of budget holders. The session will guide staff through using the PSF Finance System, including the requisition and reporting portal, to help manage departmental budgets more effectively. The team will provide advice, tips and practical demonstrations.

Fiona, Pip and Karen (CHSG) // Room

Target Audience: All Staff  // Capacity: 30

Working in a school can be busy and demanding, with an emotional load that often goes unseen. This warm, interactive breakout session provides time to slow down and reflect on how we support each other day to day. The session will explore noticing when colleagues are struggling, checking in with care, and listening without needing to fix. Grounded in research on healthy team cultures, it offers practical, school-appropriate approaches to peer support.

Sotonye (CHSG) // Room

Target Audience: All Staff  // Capacity: 30

Difficult conversations can drain energy and create anxiety. This session uses the Japanese martial art of Aikido – the way of blending and harmonising with energy – as a framework for practising difficult conversations. Through centred response, harnessing energy, non-resistant leading and scripting, participants will learn to adapt to challenge and unexpected circumstances.

Barclays // Room

Target Audience: All Staff  // Capacity: 30

Come along to explore practical tools and ideas to support your financial wellbeing. Colleagues from a range of backgrounds will be attending, with interests spanning ISAs, mortgages, savings, and more. This session is designed to be accessible and relevant for everyone in our school community.

Cloud Design Box // Room

Target Audience: Support Staff // Capacity: 30

This session explores how SharePoint and Teams features can be used to work efficiently and communicate effectively. It will explain the difference between communication sites and collaboration (Teams) sites, alternatives to email for sharing information, how to share good practice and praise colleagues, and how to manage Teams to work for you. The session will also explore how Copilot can be used to speed up tasks and workflows.

Quilter // Room

Target Audience: Support Staff // Capacity: 40

A session to help support staff understand the value of the Local Government Pension Scheme and how it works. Topics include how pensions work (including the State Pension and LGPS), when pensions can be taken, options for pensions from previous employers, ways to increase future income, and how pensions protect against inflation.

Alexis (NHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Support Staff // Capacity: 30

This workshop introduces practical communication approaches for supporting colleagues who raise emotional or wellbeing concerns. It focuses on listening with empathy, responding sensitively and creating a safe space for open conversation, while recognising boundaries and knowing when to signpost for further support.

Tom (GLT) // Room 

Target Audience: All Staff // Capacity: 30

This session will provide a comprehensive guide to creating a strong business case, essential for securing resources and driving impactful projects in education. Participants will explore why business cases are critical, including their role in funding allocation, strategic and stakeholder alignment, and risk mitigation. Through practical examples and top tips, attendees will learn to avoid pitfalls like vague language, excessive jargon, and lack of data.  This session is suitable for all staff.

 // Room

Target Audience: Support Staff

By prior arrangement, this time will be used as one of two agreed collaboration sessions, alongside a later session, to work with peers from across the Trust.

Peter Foster // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 60

This session explores workload and wellbeing by focusing on the underlying problems rather than quick fixes. Participants will examine attitudes to workload, why boundaries are hard to set, what makes teaching so intense, and why reducing workload is challenging, alongside practical ways to chip away at these pressures.

Luke (WHSG)// Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

A session for teachers who already use Carousel Learning and want to extend its impact. It will explore improving student engagement with homework, the new student dashboard, and using C-scores to plan learning over time.

Ed (WHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

A hands-on session focused on OneNote and how teachers can use it effectively in the classroom to support their practice.

Rachel Rabello (Cognus) // Room 

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

Interactive training to help secondary teachers understand literacy difficulties, including dyslexia, and why pupils’ experiences vary. The session explores the impact of literacy difficulties on reading, writing, spelling and processing, and introduces practical, evidence-informed strategies to reduce barriers and support independence.

Solutions Not Slides // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

This session explores tools and methods for navigating world events in the classroom while protecting staff mental wellbeing. Led by Solutions Not Sides, it draws on over 15 years’ experience supporting difficult conversations through a framework of non-violence, rejection of hatred and equality for all..

Jacqui (CHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

Marking is a crucial but time-consuming part of teaching. This session shares practical tips and strategies to improve efficiency in live, class and exam marking, while supporting swift and effective feedback.

Laura (WHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

A collaborative session bringing teachers together to share effective, low-workload retrieval routines that improve long-term learning. Staff will identify approaches that can be embedded as sustainable everyday practice.

Teresa (WHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

A highly practical session led by WHSG’s Head of Drama, focusing on developing teaching persona to support classroom management. The session includes strategies on presence, voice, gesture and non-verbal communication that can be applied immediately.

Romy and Katie (NHSG) // Room

Target Audience: Teaching Staff // Capacity: 30

This session explores how NHSG has successfully embedded the UpLearn app into teaching, and how this has contributed to raising academic standards