Inclusion Support Service Kent training

EAL Strategies to Accelerate Progress and Increase Access to the Curriculum in Primary Schools

Session 1 (9:30am-12:30pm) will provide strategies to ensure that your:

• new arrivals are able to engage in learning within your classroom
• EAL learners are accessing the curriculum
• EAL children’s acquisition of English is accelerated.

SEN or EAL - Identifying Special Educational Needs in Children with EAL

Session 2 (1pm-3:30pm) will:

• raise awareness of differences between EAL and SEN
• develop an understanding of  the complexities surrounding effective identification of SEN in children with EAL
• explore effective identification procedures.

Venue: Innovation Centre Medway, Maidstone Road, Chatham, Kent, ME5 9FD
Date: Tuesday 31 January 2017
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm
Cost: Free to Medway LA Primary (KS2) Schools receiving Greenshoots funding and Kent schools with an ISSK SLA. All other academies, free schools, Infant, Primary and Special schools: £130

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Recognising, dealing with and preventing racist incidents

Delegates will examine what constitutes a racist incident and examine the steps necessary to deal with it. Curriculum initiatives aimed at preventing racist incidents will also be highlighted.

Aims - Delegates will:

• be able to recognise and respond appropriately to racist incidents
• be more confident to positively prevent discrimination through the development of whole school policy and practice.

Venue: Lenham Community Centre, Groom Way, Lenham, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 2QF
Date: Thursday 2 February 2017
Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Cost: £75. Free to schools with ISSK SLA.

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Details of all upcoming ISSK training courses can be found here

ISSK Contacts

For further information regarding ISSK, please contact issk@kent.gov.uk.

Gillie Heath, Manager
Telephone: 03000 41 70 93
Mobile: 07880 784528
Email: gillie.heath@kent.gov.uk