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Practical course aimed at understanding and completing work-activity risk assessments using the corporate risk assessment forms and guidance document

This course will provide a three year qualification in Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) for staff who are either coming to the end of their existing EFAW qualification or for staff who do not have a EFAW qualification and require it for their job role.

The workplace can be rich with opportunity. It's a place where we can learn and grow, develop and contribute, build our careers, earn our living and provide for our family. It can also be challenging, demanding and exhausting.

Everyone has to cope with the stresses and strains of work and everyday life. Challenges and change are a constant for all of us. Some of these involve taking some degree of risk, while some may be crises or emergencies that demand our immediate attention.

You will have developed coping mechanisms during your life that help you deal with familiar adverse situations and many unfamiliar ones. Some of your coping mechanisms however, aren't so effective and can even make situations worse.

What separates those who can hold their own and keep going in times of adversity is a cluster of habits that centre on resilience. This workshop will explore what resilience is and the habits that strengthen your resilience enabling you to:

• Deal with pressure and handle stress
• Maintain your motivation and engagement
• Develop and sustain self-esteem
• Bounce back from set-backs and disappointments
• Transform your work life

This course requires delegates to be enrolled on the ECDL programme before booking on this course and charges may apply. Please email ECDL@Portsmouthcc.gov.uk for more information.

ECDL Extra is a recognised qualification at Level 2 and is deemed to be equivalent with GCSE grades A* to C.

ECDL Extra builds on the users basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and improves their understanding of Word, Excel and PowerPoint

A 2hr course to enable people to recognise when their posture is not good and how this can cause back pain

Who should attend?

• Staff experiencing back pain
• Staff who want to avoid back pain
• Staff undertaking their handling of people induction programme

Building with Lego bricks is a multi-sensory, open-ended and often very motivating play experience for children.  It harnesses children's motivation for Lego in order to improve their social skills via structured group activities.

This approach can be used with any children with social skills difficulties, including those with Autism.

Lego Based Therapy has a growing evidence base and groups arre now popping up all over the world.  Several research studies in the UK and the USA have found that Lego Based Therapy groups can help develop and reinforce a range of play skills and social skills, such as verbal and non-verbal communication, collaborative problem solving, turn taking, sharing and joint attention skills. 

Over the 2 sessions you will learn the skills needed to run your own Lego Therapy Club in your school.

Practical course aimed at teaching correct load handling techniques to staff

This workshop for PIE QM leads will support schools with the self-assessment process, identify triads for peer moderation and plan the next steps.

An exploration of strategies which help scaffold learning and make the curriculum more accessible for different types of EAL learner, depending on their need.

A 2hr course to enable people to recognise when their posture is not good and how this can cause back pain

Who should attend?

• Staff experiencing back pain
• Staff who want to avoid back pain
• Staff undertaking their handling of people induction programme