Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

This is a one day course including theory and practice

Who Should Attend?

New staff whose role directly or indirectly involves the handling of people should attend this course. 

This course will cover a variety of strategies that can be embedded into a mainstream primary classroom to support a pupil/s with autism.
Beginning with establishing routines and adapting the learning environment providing a safe and secure place for pupil/s to learn. Managing transitions will be the next stage of the course, offering detail around visual support and scheduling. Communication is key to all of these strategies being successful, therefore a whole session will focus on understanding all forms of expressive and receptive communication. The ‘Bubbles Ethos’ will underpin all of these sessions and be considered in depth throughout.

The course instructor is Beth Arnold

Online course delivered using Microsoft TEAMs over three 1.5 hours sessions

A virtual link will be sent prior to the course. Please note this is one of three sessions, the second session on 27th April 2021 and the third session on 11th May 2021

Prevent is part of the UK's counter terrorism strategy. This workshop will help participants to identify the issues and preventative measures from the Government strategy aimed at tackling the radicalisation of individuals, both in the UK and elsewhere (stopping people from becoming a terrorist or supporting terrorists or violent extremists).

A course to support teaching assistants in primary schools to work effectively with pupils with English as an additional language. The course consists of self-guided learning (activities, a quiz, reading and reflection etc.) followed by a webinar to recap and address individual school issues.

For the Spring term, training from EMAS continues to be a 'self-guided' offer, with a walk through of reading, reflection and activities to be undertaken independently, followed by a webinar where the key points will be discussed, questions answered and guidance given for individual situations.

The course materials will be sent out to anyone interested.
The webinar is on 23rd March 2021.

Not sure how best to tackle the gaps now appearing in children's Science knowledge? Wondering how to make the most out of the learning time left this year? Pop along to the Portsmouth Primary Science Network to discuss different strategies to make sure children end this year with the key elements of learning they need to move on to the next year. It will also be a chance to share good practice in Science across the city plus ask questions and get advice.
The session will be led by Holly Thompson, Science SLE

 Please note this session will be a Google meet, a virtual link will be sent prior to the meeting.  

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There seems to be a misconception around 'helping people' and a tendency to move towards specific training that is overly complicated, sometimes daunting and often ends up sitting on the 'shelf' - The Healthy Conversation Skills training aims to de-mystify the art of 'giving help' and build confidence in everyone.

This 3 hour, fully interactive virtual training is designed to encourage and support the philosophy behind Making Every Contact Count (MECC) with added peer support, networking opportunities and a desire to implement what they learn in their daily lives

We all have a shared responsibility to be healthy in the conversations we have with our residents/customers and each other. We need to invest time in the development of our skills now while there is a collective consideration of health and inequality made so evident in the current pandemic.

If people are empowered to be proactive and opportunistic in their approach to helping others with more complex issues like mental health and sexual health: they will need to be confident in having a basic conversation; using reflection, open discovery questions and a person centred, asset based approach.

Healthy eating, diet & nutrition: We spend the evening on tailoring conversation around helping someone to make changes in their lifestyle with expert advice on hand from specialist practitioners – limited places, NHS protected

Practical course aimed at teaching correct load handling techniques to staff

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.

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