The PTI

The last online CPD course of the year is coming up, and it’s free! 💷

We’ve been working with on a series of courses about delivering financial education in schools. 🚀

Young Enterprise provides young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need for future success. The objective of our series with them is important and long-term – to help teachers provide their students with the education they need to grow into financially secure adults.

This one is designed for Senior Leaders who believe in the importance of a financial education and want to improve financial literacy throughout their school. It will go into the strategies and techniques teachers need to provide students with a thorough financial education.

The course will provide teachers with:

💡Ways to embed financial education into their school

💡Quality Marked resources, including how to use Young Enterprise's Financial Education Planning Framework across Key Stages

💡An understanding of how to use homework and assessment in financial education

It's a great way to prepare for the New Year. To book your place, use this link: https://shorturl.at/T914b

Our first New Teacher Subject Day of the academic year brought nearly 100 teachers together at Pimlico Academy last Saturday for a full day of learning and development!

The day began with an introduction by Carolyn Roberts, our Co-Director, who spoke from decades of experience about what it means to be a teacher and why it's so important. Then, teachers of nine subjects split off to learn more about their subject in-depth 🧠

🧪 Chemistry teachers explored Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy with Professor Claire Vallance, and Magnetic Resonance with Dr. Alice Bowen,

🔌Physics teachers practiced Circuits Modelling with Tips from Mark Fuller, and learned about electricity and lightning with Rhys Philips

🧬 Biology teachers heard a lecture from Pankaj Chandak, Research Fellow at King's College London - and took part in a practical session of dissection!

All subjects also participated in teacher-led workshops, learning resource assignments and reflection.

With help from so many teacher leaders sharing their knowledge and passion, the commitment of so many new and early career teachers to their subject, and a lot of hard work planning behind the scenes, the day has received really lovely feedback. We're looking forward to the next one on the 23rd in Leeds!

🔅 Spotlight Schools: St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School 🔅

We want to share more about the schools we work with and their work delivering exceptional teaching. Every half-term, we’ll introduce a primary and a secondary school demonstrating long-term commitment to subject knowledge – our Spotlight Schools!

Our inaugural Primary Spotlight School is St Thomas of Canterbury RC School. They’ve been a member of the Bolton PTI Primary Hub for over five years 🎉 Currently, they’re focussing on learning about local geography. In October they went on a field trip with Geograohy teacher lead John Wilkinso. Now, they're planning on collaborating with schools within their Hub to share their different school grounds along with activities for the environments 🗺️

If you want to read more about St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary School, there’s a blog post written by their deputy headteacher on our website. You can find it here: https://bit.ly/4fF9HhG

Pictures from a busy week at The PTI 🥳

On Tuesday, we hosted a History Virtual Primary Hub with Christine Counsell who shared her expertise with Primary School teachers, who teach history even when it sits outside their subject specialism.

On Thursday, we returned to history. Our Greenwich Primary Hub discussed object-based learning, local history, and developing an ambitious Primary curriculum with Kate Fowler, School Learning Producer at and Alex O’Halloran, history teacher at Thomas Tallis School.

That same evening, we ran an online computing hub. We were joined by .yaseminallsop.mbe, a lecturer in Early years and Primary education at and co-editor of the International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools. Teachers learned about using unplugged activities to teach computational concepts, and the issues and challenges that arise, using findings from relevant studies.

In the office, we’ve been preparing to run New Teacher Subject Days, the first of which starts tomorrow! Expect lots of pictures to arrive in your feeds tomorrow.

As always, thanks to all our teachers, speakers and participants, bringing experience, knowledge and open minds to our sessions 🧠

Free to all teachers! Thanks to PTIeducation for the invitation to speak.. see you on the 26th June.

Music teachers - unlock your classroom creativity! Transform your ideas for conducting, musicianship and singing and put them into practice 🎶

This in person CPD day will provide you with practical ideas and approaches that can encourage students to enhance rehearsal and classroom practice in order to express themselves: https://bit.ly/3wTtZD9

Is France ready for the Olympics? Bring the Olympics to your classroom to explore this year's host Olympic country through an academic lens to broaden your students' geographic knowledge outside of the classroom...

Geography teachers can sign up now: https://bit.ly/3Vlwx6N

Art teachers - get ready to join us online on Tuesday 18th June and understand more about using software for digital art and online manipulation 🎨💻

Check out the course here: https://bit.ly/3VbiC2U

Science teachers - sign up now for our Online Course "The Future of Energy"! Join us on Monday 17th June and explore current approaches to the subject of climate change solutions analytically and realistically 🌎

Find out more: https://bit.ly/3JTCIsb

Explore Coordinates and Vectors using rich tasks in this online CPD course for Maths teachers!

Join us online on Wednesday 12th June: https://bit.ly/4buTRE1

Art teachers - do you feel yourself sticking to the same systems that are based upon quality of finish?

This course aims to support you overcoming the fear of ‘imperfection’, and how to encourage students to take risks: https://bit.ly/4bclqSO