The Exeter Consortium Partnership meeting took place on Wednesday 13th November 2019 at the Westbank Centre, Exminster.

The afternoon included:

An insightful and engaging presentation by Gareth Rein, Headteacher at St Joseph's RC Primary School in Penarth, Wales.

Gareth and staff members at St Joseph’s have integrated some of the key findings of cognitive science into their pedagogy and practice and the school is developing a knowledge-rich curriculum that opens minds and broadens horizons. St Joseph's is a Curriculum Pioneer School helping the Welsh Government to write its new Curriculum for Wales and is now a Curriculum Innovation School.

You can view a copy of Gareth's presentation HERE. ​

Suzie Winter, Performance Data Analyst for West Country Schools Trust provided an analysis of the 2019 results for Primary, looking at reported KS1 and KS2 headlines for 2019 and any trend information available.

You can view a copy of Suzie's presentation HERE.

Rebecca Cosgrave, Primary English Team, Babcock LDP provided feedback on the 2019 moderation process for KS1 and KS2. 

You can view Rebecca's presentation HERE.
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Martin Smith, Director of Exeter Consortium and Teaching School Alliance and Dawn Chapman, Primary ITT Programme Lead provided an update on services for schools including CPD, ITT and our partnership with Teaching Schools SW.

Please contact Dawn if you would like more information about the salaried route to QTS or any other information about our Teacher Training programme.

You can view the presentation HERE.

​They began working with a few Exeter schools over the last couple of years but are keen to reach out to more. 

In the first instance they are keen to set up some one hour Dementia Friends sessions with the children, and/or staff and parents. The sessions are interactive with resources for 6-16 year olds and can be integrated into a number of lesson plans creating greater understanding of dementia. The feedback from the children and teachers has been incredible and has made a real difference. 

The alliance have been honoured to deliver a number of sessions, most recently reaching 70, 8-11 year olds over 3 separate 45 minute slots at Cranbrook Education Campus.

For further details and to learn more contact Gina Awad at exeterdaa@outlook.com or call 07941459439. 

Exeter Consortium organised an 'Effective Use of SIMS' course for their member schools which was led by Jane McFall, Education Product Specialist for SCOMIS. The training was FREE for member schools and delivered in partnership with SCOMIS.

Jane's presentation can be found HERE

The objectives of the course included:

• Making the most of SIMS in your school
• Achieving efficiencies in the school office

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​The session focused on:

• Configuring the homepage
• Pupil Teacher View
• The quick tool bar
• Using quick letters and notes
• Adding pupils
• Adding staff
• Importing and Exporting CTFs
• Pupils/Groups of Pupils Leaving
• Registers
• Systems Manager
• Housekeeping
• Reports
• SIMS Discover
• SIMS Parent Lite
• GDPR
• and much more...

32 people attended the training and the feedback was extremely positive. Comments from delegates included:

If you would like to attend more training on effective use of SIMS then please contact info@exeterconsortium.com or phone 01392 927171.

Oxford University Press are excited to announce their Partnership with Teaching Schools South West, please read on to find out what this means for member schools…

• If groups of schools use or purchase from OUP you will benefit from preferential offers
• Access to our Oxford experts at your events – Ruth Miskin will be attending the Literacy Conference at Exeter Racecourse on the 29th November 2019 sponsored by Oxford University Press. Please link here to book: Literacy Conference SW 2019
• Dedicated Partnership Manager – Prem Hirani and OUP consultants supporting our Subject Leader meetings
• Opportunities to get involved with impact studies/new product free trials and much more…

On Wednesday 9th October, Exeter Consortium and TSA hosted the most recent edition of the Teaching & Learning Symposium at St James’ School, Exeter. Symposiums are cross phase and wholly inclusive with a choice of workshops presented by colleagues for colleagues of primary, secondary and FE phase.

Over 70 colleagues from Exeter Consortium’s member schools attended the hour-long event, with each choosing three different 15-minute workshops to attend out of a possible seven, supporting a range of learning conversations and dialogues.

9th October Workshops

• Ready, Steady, PE - Exeter City Community Trust
• Confidence with Maths - Neil Vincent from The Woodroffe School
• Science Starters to prompt Thinking and Observation - Lyndsey Kerswell from Abbotskerswell Primary School
• Growing Devon Schools - Annkatrin Hendry & Melissa Harvey from Growing Devon Schools
• The Development of skills in Art - Kate Harvey from South Molton United Primary School
• Time to Move! - Chloe Sharland from ROCK Chiropractic Health Centre
• COMMITTED to Life - Rebecca Hooker from Committed Clothing Company

The event proved to be popular with lots of positive feedback gathered from colleagues:

If you wish to present your own workshop at future symposiums please email your idea/title and description to robin@exeterconsortium.com, along with which date you would like to attend.

Future Symposium dates

• Wednesday 22nd January 2020
• Wednesday 6th May 2020