Covid-19 Support For Schools

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Services For Education offers a wide range of teacher and pupil support to enable you to maximise the impact of catch-up funding and opportunities. We have structured our offer to mirror the EEF Guide to Supporting School Planning which aims to support school leaders with their planning for the year 2021.

We believe that its tiered model that focuses on high quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies provides the best route for enabling children to overcome the impact of school closures and the disruption to learning over the last 12 months.

In their guide to supporting school planning, the EEF indicate that great teaching is the most important lever schools have to improve outcomes for their pupils. The report identifies the importance of having deep subject knowledge and a flexible understanding of the content being taught, alongside the key components of explicit instruction, scaffolding, flexible grouping and cognitive and metacognitive strategies.

Recovery Curriculum Consultancy (Bespoke To Your School)

As a consequence of the lockdown, pupils’ learning and their journey through the curriculum has been massively disrupted.

Services For Education will provide school leaders with support in aligning their thinking and establishing best practice and assessment strategies to enable the identification of strengths and areas for development in learning and progress.

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Recovering From a Pandemic: Managing The Autumn Term In Your School [Free Webinar]

A series of 4 short webinars designed to take the legwork from the vast amount of advice and research aimed at schools around surviving the autumn term, this year.

Each webinar summarises a key aspect of recent guidance, analyses the best evidence so far and signposts you to further helpful information.

Classroom Curriculum Primary Music Teacher

Services For Education have experienced and qualified Primary School Music Specialists who will work across all key stages delivering the primary music curriculum.

Staff can also work alongside your teachers to help upskill the non-music specialist. We can also help to build schemes of work connecting to the wider curriculum.

The EEF report that evidence consistently shows the positive impact that targeted academic support can have, including for those pupils who are not making good progress across the spectrum of achievement. Planning targeted academic support, including how to link one-to-one or small group interventions into classroom teaching, will be a key component of effective planning for this academic year.

The EEF state that ‘Generally, the use of TAs to deliver high quality interventions, which complement the work of the teacher, is a ‘best bet’ and could be a powerful way of mitigating any impacts of time away from school and see positive gains for pupils.’

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Soundtots – Early Years Music Intervention For Development

Soundtots is a musical intervention to help children reach a progressive level of development during their time in EYFS, supporting children’s language development, memory, listening and attention skills.

Services For Education music teachers will foster and model the three ‘characteristics of effective learning’ so that children learn to explore, to be engaged and motivated to develop their thinking skills by making links in their learning through music.

Key Stage 1 and 2 Maths and Reading Interventions

In partnership with Edge Hill University and Oxford University Press we aim to help schools raise achievement in Mathematics and English through consistently high quality professional development and training for teachers and teaching assistants.

1stClass@Number is EEF evaluated as a ‘Promising Project’ finding that pupils who received the programme made, on average, two additional months’ progress in maths.

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SEND Music Specialist

Services For Education have a leading inclusion department. We have specially trained staff that work in all types of settings across the city. Many of our team are specialists in SEMH and work creatively with pupils.

We can provide large group/small group/one to one delivery. Our trained team can also provide vital CPD opportunities to schools, teaching alongside staff or as twilight sessions.

The EEF state that wider strategies relate to the most significant non-academic barriers to success in school, including attendance, behaviour and social and emotional support. These local needs and challenges will be different for every school community.

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Music Tuition in Schools For Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Music education can have a hugely positive impact and we have witnessed a clear increase in confidence, teamwork and focus in the pupils we work with in small group and 1:1 settings. Services For Education provide music lessons on-site, with free loan of an instrument and can support graded music exams like GCSE, BTEC and A-Level.

We provide lessons in every instrument and have an increasing world music provision.

Pupil and Family Support

Our family support team work with pupils referred for a variety of reasons including behaviour, home and school, family breakdown, bereavement, friendship issues, transition and parents in prison.

This is a long term approach and is done by working with young people and their families, using a wide variety of skills and methods to resolve whatever was truly distracting a young person from their education.

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Summer Schools to Boost Learning

Thinking of running summer school activities this year to boost learning? Services For Education can support your school or consortia of schools.

We can provide workshop based activity for pupils to attend including carousel sessions in samba, steel pans, composition/performance and singing, providing a performance opportunity for carers/parents.