MIDSHIRE CUSTOMER TO HOST CONFERENCE FOR SCHOOLS LINKING NETWORK

Stockport based Midshire Business Systems is supporting their customer, Schools Linking Network, as they host a conference to explore ‘how to build cohesive learning communities in our schools’.

The conference is aimed at primary and secondary school leaders in the North West, and across the country, to help create a highly cohesive learning community in schools.

The pioneering charity Schools Linking Network (SLN) is hosting a ‘Vision for Learning Conference’ at Bradford City Football Ground on Wednesday 26 March 2014. The event will address the crucial challenge of how to build cohesive learning communities in our schools.

Dr Joyce Miller, Chair of SLN, comments:

“The conference will provide an invaluable opportunity to consider and explore how to create a cohesive learning community in a school. It will outline strategies for promoting pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development, and explore other important areas such as links to the new curriculum, understanding context, and handling sensitive issues.”

The conference is aimed at headteachers; senior leaders; community engagement officers; governors; lead members for children and young people’s services; lead members for equality services, and senior staff from external agencies who work in and with schools to support cohesive learning, across the UK.

Sir Keith Ajegbo, Leadership Development Advisor from Future Leaders, and Patron of SLN, will address the conference, along with other speakers: Sharon Lambert, Headteacher and Additional Inspector for Schools working for CfBT; Helen Barnard, Programme Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Joe Hallgarten, Director of Education at the RSA, and Dr Mark Chater, Director at Culham St Gabriel’s – a charitable trust dedicated to educational work in support of religious education.

SLN Advisors will host sessions covering: handling sensitive issues in the classroom; analysis of Ofsted and SMSC development and the new curriculum; evaluating impact; understanding context; secondary dialogue; sharing of resources, and classroom practice.

SLN works with teachers and senior school leaders nationwide to develop successful and sustainable education programmes that influence students in a positive way and contribute to the achievements of the school.  Their work brings together schoolchildren from different social, cultural and economic backgrounds, helping them to explore issues surrounding identity, diversity, equality and community.

The conference is also being supported by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Pears Foundation, RSA and Culham St Gabriel’s. Delegates interested in attending should contact SLN on 01274 385 470 or email info@schoolslinkingnetwork.org.uk.  For more information visit www.schoolslinkingnetwork.org.uk