Training events
All Mill Wharf Training events focus on practical solutions to specific professional development issues. Courses are held in a variety of formats for maximum flexibility.
Training programmes
Dates and further information on our courses are available in the training programmes below:
Art and Design
- Art and Design - Training programme 2009/10
- Exploring creativity and using ICT in Art: A hands-on course
- Individual approaches to Art and Design: A hands-on course
- Leading a successful Art department
- Pop-Up! A hands-on approach: Simple techniques for making complex paper mechanisms
- Working with an artist: Painting and the art of sketchbooks
- Working with an artist: Sculpture and the art of 3 dimensions
Business and ICT
- Business and ICT - Training programme 2009/10
- Effective Business Studies for NQTs
- How to use Cubase (SE, SL, SX, Studio)
- Intermediate Photoshop: A hands-on course
- Introduction to Photoshop: A hands-on course
- Maximising your students' potential in OCR GCE Applied ICT Unit G048
- OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT: Using Dreamweaver to enhance delivery
- OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT: Using Flash to enhance delivery
- OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT: Using Fireworks to enhance delivery
- OCR Level 2 Nationals in ICT: Using Photoshop to enhance delivery
- Progress and change in ICT at Key Stages 3 and 4
- Strategies for effective delivery of ICT at Key Stages 4 and 5
- Techniques for raising achievement in Business Studies at GCSE, AS and A2
- The finance module in Business Education
Centre Development
- Centre Development - Training programme 2009/10
- The new School Evaluation Form (SEF) - effective self-review and preparation for Ofsted 2010 New
- Achieving excellence in Customer Service within schools and colleges
- Assertive teaching to manage challenging behaviour
- Behaviour management for the Learning Support/Teaching Assistant
- Bullying in schools: Developing more effective strategies to reduce bullying in all its forms
- Dealing with disruptive classroom behaviour
- Developing counselling skills
- Developing more effective liaison with challenging and demanding parents to promote achievement
- Embedding employability skills in teaching and learning strategies for vocational education
- Exams invigilating: From clueless to clued up!
- Implementing assessing pupil progress (APP) using assessment for learning (AFL)
- In a class of your own: Managing pupils' behaviour
- Inclusion: More effective management of the hard to teach
- Introducing counselling skills
- Maximising learning in lessons
- Maximising your students' study skills and exam techniques
- Meeting challenging behaviour in your classroom
- Motivating learners
- Pastoral tutoring and working with parents
- Personalised learning: A whole-school perspective
- Raising achievement of disaffected, disengaged and challenging 14-16 year olds
- Raising student performance using assessing pupil progress (APP) and assessment for learning (AFL)
- Raising the profile of pastoral care managers to become more effective
- Reducing truancy and absenteeism : Practical strategies to improve attendance
- The principles of collaborative working: Smoothing the path for Diplomas
- Understanding loss and grief
- Winning strategies to improve boys' achievement
- Successful internal verification of non-NVQ programmes
- Successfully assessing non-NVQ programmes
- Departmental self-evaluation: Effective practical approaches
Centre Support
- Centre Support - Training programme 2009/10
- Assertiveness confidence and clear communication for support staff
- Being an effective cover assistant
- Effective cover assistant management
- Leadership skills for support staff
- Managing performance for support staff
- Teaching assistants: Maximising your role in the classroom
Critial Thinking
Design and Technology
- Design and Technology - Training programme 2009/10
- Designing, building and programming electronic circuits using PIC devices and technology: A hands-on workshop
- KS3 Resistant Materials: Basic skills and projects to improve pupil motivation
- Leading a Design and Technology department
- Putting the food back into Food Technology
English and Drama
- English and Drama - Training programme 2009/10
- Embracing creativity - how to implement the APP approach in English at Key Stage 3 New
- Teach outstanding English at Key Stage 3 and 4 - raise your game! New
- Developing Functional Skills (English) across the curriculum for 2010
- Drama as a preparation for writing: Using Drama approaches to engage students and develop confidence and enjoyment in writing
- Improving boys' performance in English at KS3
- Improving students' performance in GCSE English Literature
- Making Shakespeare accessible and engaging through Drama
- Teaching Drama effectively: Practical approaches for NQTs, non-specialists and returners
- Teaching the techniques of learning to spell
- Dyslexia: The diagnosis and remediation of dyslexia - an introduction
- Teaching reading: What teachers and teaching assistants need to know
Humanities
- Humanities - Training programme 2009/10
- Assessment for learning in Geography
- Assessment for learning made easy and enjoyable in Religious Studies
- Developing Citizenship within the Humanities faculty
- Engaging pupils actively at Key Stage 3 Religious Studies
- History for NQTs: Preparing you for the practical demands of secondary History
- How to be a successful and innovative Humanities faculty in assessment for learning/assessing pupils' progress
- How to be a successful non specialist teacher of Citizenship
- How to be successful at co-ordinating and managing the new Citizenship curriculum at Key Stage 3
- How to be successful in supporting the gifted and talented students in Humanities
- Improving literacy skills in Humanities in Key Stages 3 and 4: 10 key ideas in developing writing, reading, speaking and listening skills in Humanities
- Leading the Geography department
- Managing the Humanities faculty: Geography, History and Religious Education
- Managing the new Geography curriculum at Key Stage 3
- Managing the new Humanities curriculum At Key Stage 3
- Maximising performance of Key Stage 4 Geography in the new specifications
- Practical ideas for implementing the new national curriculum in History
- Raising achievement for all students in A Level History
- Raising achievement in AQA GCSE Modern World History
- Raising achievement in GCSE History: How to get the best out of all students
- Raising achievement in GCSE Modern World History: International History - Germany, Russia and the USA
- Raising achievement in GCSE Religious Studies at Key Stage 4
- Raising achievement in SHP GCSE History: Medicine through time and Germany 1918 - 45
- Raising achievement in SHP GCSE History: Medicine through time and the American West
- Teaching the new Geography curriculum at Key Stage 3 for the non-specialist
- Teaching the new History KS3 curriculum for the non-specialist
- Using ICT for 'Next Generation' learning in Geography
- Becoming a highly effective Faculty Co-ordinator: Successful senior middle management
Maths
- Maths - Training programme 2009/10
- Effective strategies to deliver AS Level Maths
- Effective strategies to deliver higher tier GCSE Maths
- Leading your Maths department
- Lively Maths at Key Stage 3
- Practical strategies for stimulating the Maths underachiever
- Promoting Mathematics in the department and across the curriculum
- Teaching Key Stage 4 Maths for the non-specialist
- The essential guide for non-specialists teaching Mathematics at Key Stage 3
MFL
- MFL - Training programme 2009/10
- Asset Languages in action: Crossing the phase divide in MFL from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3
- Asset Languages in action: Integration into the curriculum
- Text appeal: Adding stimulus and variety to your sixth form MFL teaching
- Using technology to motivate and engage students in the MFL classroom
Music
Physical Education
Professional Development
- Professional Development - Training programme 2009/10
- Becoming a highly effective Faculty Co-ordinator: Successful senior middle management
- Creating a smooth transition for Year 7
- Developing lesson observation skills for Team Leaders
- Effective lesson observation: Practical approaches
- Effective mentoring of your teacher trainees and NQTs
- Essential skills for the school leadership group
- From 'dipping' to 'buzzing': Winning ways to transform Year 8
- How to be a successful PSHE Co-ordinator
- How to lead your diverse team to success
- Maximising your effectiveness as a Staff Development Co-ordinator
- Middle management : Survival and success
- Personalised learning: How to make it happen in your classroom
- Preparing for middle management
- Resolving problems through effective staff management
- Stretch and Challenge: Meeting the challenges of the new A Level specifications
- Stretch and Challenge: Planning inspirational lessons to promote personalised learning
- Successful internal verification of non-NVQ programmes
- Successfully assessing non-NVQ programmes
- The Change agenda: How to implement new initiatives and still maintain your sanity!
- The new Head of Department: Essential skills for success
- The secrets of success for NQTs - revealed!
- Transforming results through effective peer coaching, observations and feedback
- Using online forums for enhancing interactive teaching and learning
- Using performance data to develop a raising achievement plan
- Meeting challenging behaviour in your classroom
Science and Social Science
- Science and Social Science - Training programme 2009/10
- Science teaching via a VLE - a hands on workshop geared to successful use New
- Developing subject knowledge at Key Stage 4: Electricity
- Developing subject knowledge at Key Stage 4: Forces and astronomy
- Developing subject knowledge at Key Stage 4: Waves, radioactivity and energy
- Developing subject teaching at Key Stage 5: AS Physics (new specification compatible)
- DNA and Gene Technologies: A hands-on course for KS4 and KS5 Biology teachers
- Psychological Investigations: Practical strategies for implementation in the OCR GCE specification
- Structuring and delivering a course in GCSE Astronomy: A guide for teachers and subject leaders
- Teaching Science to the reluctant learner
- Teaching the 2009 A2 Physics specification: A course for first time and non-specialist teachers
- The best bits of Biology - bringing your lessons to life at all Key Stages
- The essential guide for non-specialists teaching Science at Key Stages 3 and 4
Special Education Needs
- Special Education Needs - Training programme 2009/10
- Disability discrimination and inclusion
- Dyslexia: The diagnosis and remediation of dyslexia - an introduction
- Effective use of the on-site unit for pupils at risk of exclusion: Developing a centre for re-engagement, inclusion and success
- SEN: Getting to grips with the Code of Practice
- Teaching pupils with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms
- Teaching reading: What teachers and teaching assistants need to know
- Behaviour management for the Learning Support/Teaching Assistant
- Teaching assistants: Maximising your role in the classroom
Twilight
Topics and formats:
- Non-curriculum CPD issues
These one-day courses cover Centre development, Professional development, Centre support staff and SEN. These courses are suitable for senior managers, teachers at all levels, teaching assistants, special needs assistants and support staff. - Curriculum-specific CPD courses
These one-day courses cover essential CPD issues across ten key subject areas. Suitable for teachers at all levels. These are generic courses not tied to any specific awarding body or specification (unless otherwise stated). - Twilight events
A selection of our courses have been condensed into convenient after-school sessions which run from 16.30 to 19.30.
In-house events
A full range of Mill Wharf courses can be delivered as 'in-house' events. You can join forces with neighboring schools or train all your staff in one session, keeping the costs-per-head to a minimum.
The courses are delivered at a date, time and venue to suit your needs. Reduce travel time and transport costs by holding your own CPD event.
In-house events can help with the 'rarely cover' issues by reducing the time teachers are away from the classroom.
Contact us now to find out more about in-house training from Mill Wharf. Phone 0845 409 4570 or submit a contact form.
Training features
All courses are interactive, share best practice for learning and are designed to be applied and cascaded down to colleagues at your school/college.
- Courses focus on current education issues providing relevant, practical and up-to-date solutions.
- Training at high quality venues in convenient locations across England and Wales.
- All courses are delivered by industry-leading trainers, each with a background of significant teaching experience.
- Comprehensive resources issued on the day which can be used as informative reference material.
- Competitively priced courses exempt from VAT.
Testimonials
"Clear explanation of aims of Asset Languages, very well delivered... inspirational!"
Brian Collins, HOD French, Asset Languages in Action Event
"Interaction between delegates was encouraged and was very fruitful"
Julie Machin, SENCO, Effective Use of On-site Unit Event
"Lots of great resources; very friendly; good practical activities"
Shane McCrink, Teacher, Lively Maths at KS3 Event.
