Continuous Professional Development

Whatever your role in school, our courses are designed to deepen understanding, build inclusive practice and support meaningful outcomes for all learners.

Our Courses

We offer a range of central training opportunities led by our specialist team. Our course menu is informed by the ever changing landscape of SEND and inclusion. All of our courses can also be personalised and delivered directly within your setting. 

our courses

Explore our diverse range of training modules below.

6 November 2025 – 9:30 am to 3:30 pm – Delivered by Emma Yates & Lou Holmes. Cost £120

Topics:

  • The range of complex needs present in schools.
  • The challenges around providing for children with complex SEND in mainstream schools.
  • A clear step by step process on how to create your own bespoke curriculum for SEND learners.
  • How to track progress and monitor SEND provision.
  • Quality assuring your additional provision.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, 5 and 6

4 June 2026 – 9:30 am to 3:30 pm – Delivered by Emma Yates & Ruth Lue Quee. Cost £120

Topics:

  • Child Development back to basics. 
  • The benefits of play for SEN learners.
  • Using play schemas for learning and language development.
  • Making learning visible through play.

Teacher Standard Links: 2, 5 and 6

Whole Package Price: £315

Includes the following courses:

  • SEND and the Law
  • SEND: Preparing for Ofsted
  • All Six SEND Briefings

26 September 2025 9:30 am to 3:30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes & Emma Yates. Cost £120

Topics:

  • The Children and Families Act (2014)
  • An Introduction to the Disability Equality Act (2010)
  • Duties applicable to schools and local authorities
  • Education and Health Care Needs assessments, the need for specificity and annual reviews
  • Exclusions 
  • Disability discrimination
  • Mental capacity
  • Mediation 
  • Transport

Teacher Standard Links: 8

17 October 2025 – 9.30 am to 12.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes & Emma Yates. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Understanding the OFSTED framework for Inclusion.
  • Quality assuring your own practice, provision and procedures.
  • Inclusion specific school development.

Teacher Standard Links: 8

Delivered by Beccie Hawes & Emma Yates. Cost £35 each or all six for £160

From 1.30 to 2.30 pm on the following dates:

  • 19 September 2025
  • 21 November 2025
  • 23 January 2026
  • 6 March 2026
  • 8 May 2026
  • 3 July 2026

Inclusion focused coverage of the latest research, policy, guidance and law to support you in interpreting and applying it to your setting.

Teacher Standard Links: 8

Whole Package Price: £320

Includes the following courses:

  • Developing Early Language and Communication
  • Developing Language and Communication Skills in Key Stages 2 and 3
  • Supporting Pupils with Developmental Language Disorder
  • Gestalt Language Processing
  • Supporting the Development of Speech Sounds
  • Creating a Communication Friendly Environment: Universal Support

24 September 2025 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Amirah Hussain & Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Appropriate for EYFS and KS1:
  • Intervention approaches to secure and develop expressive and receptive language and wider communication skills.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

8 January 2026 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Amirah Hussain & Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Appropriate for KS2 and KS3:
  • Intervention approaches to secure and develop expressive and receptive language and wider communication skills.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

3 February 2026 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Nicky Clark & Amirah Hussain. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Identification of needs.
  • Potential barriers to learning.
  • Supportive strategies for universal support and intervention.
  • Identifying progress.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

7 May 2026 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Amirah Hussain & Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is GLP?
  • The stages of GLP development.
  • Supportive strategies.
  • Identifying progress.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

25 June 2026 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Amirah Hussain & Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Input.
  • Clarity.
  • Production.
  • Fluency.
  • Impact upon spelling.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

9 July 2026 – 1.15 to 3.50 pm – Delivered by Amirah Hussain & Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Develop the physical environment so that it is communication friendly for all.
  • High quality visual supports.
  • Explore how social skills can be developed in every day classroom activities.
  • Targeting subject specific vocabulary.
  • Give perfect instructions.
  • Develop learning opportunities to allow pupils to develop and practise their communication skills.

Teacher Standard Links: 2 and 5.

Whole Package Price: £350

Includes the following courses:

  • Supporting Pupils Through Bereavement
  • Emotional Based School Avoidance
  • Identifying and Supporting Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs
  • Self-injurious and Risky Behaviours: Supportive Approaches
  • Play and Sand Based Therapy Approaches

9 October 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes & Emma Yates. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Supporting pupils who may be preparing for a bereavement.​
  • Supporting pupils who have experienced a bereavement- sudden and expected loss, trauma and suicide.​
  • Understanding the different ways in which pupils may experience grief.
  • Dealing with potentially difficult conversations.
  • Supportive resources.​
  • Developing a supportive whole school policy and approach.
  • Remembering – long term support.

Teacher Standard Links: 8.

20 November 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is EBSA?
  • Early identification and intervention.
  • Breaking the cycle – supportive approaches and strategies.

Teacher Standard Links: 8.

4 December 2025 – 09.30 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Emma Yates & Jordan Jacks. Cost £120

Topics:

  • How to identify emerging and existing social, emotional and mental health needs.
  • How these needs may manifest themselves and become barriers to learning and accessing wider school life.
  • Developing a pupil led response to social, emotional and mental health needs.
  • What you can do to meet the needs of learners with social, emotional and mental health needs as part of your adaptive classroom teaching.
  • Ideas for additional provision.
  • Signposting.

Teacher Standard Links: 8.

22 January 2026 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is self-injurious and risky behaviour?
  • Early identification and intervention.
  • Signposting.

Teacher Standard Links: 8.

13 February 2026 – 09.30 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes & Emma Yates. Cost £120

Topics:

  • What are play and sand tray therapies?
  • How can we use these approaches to support children to explore their wishes and feelings and to tell their story?
  • How can play and sand tray therapy approaches be used help children to heal from trauma?
  • Resources and activity ideas.
  • Setting up a play and sand tray therapy based approach in your setting.

Teacher Standard Links: 8.

Whole Package Price: £250

Includes the following courses:

  • Adaptive Teaching and SEND
  • Identifying and Supporting Maths Anxiety
  • Dyscalculia – Supporting Mathematical Development
  • Executive Functioning and Working Memory: Identifying Needs and Practical Support
  • Supporting Children to Master Phonics: A Range of Approaches

17 September 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Lou Holmes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What does adaptive teaching look like for pupils with SEND?
  • Responding to formative assessment in the moment.
  • Matching your adaptions to the four broad areas of need.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, 5 and 6.

14 November 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Bridget Mather-Scott. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is maths anxiety?
  • Early identification and intervention.
  • Supportive intervention approaches.

Teacher Standard Links: 2, 3 and 5.

21 November 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Bridget Mather-Scott. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Identification.
  • Barriers to learning.
  • Supportive strategies.

Teacher Standard Links: 2, 3, 5 and 6.

29 November 2025 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is executive functioning and working memory?
  • Adapting classroom teaching to promote task organisation, execution and completion.
  • Additional interventions.
  • Measuring progress

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, and 5.

23 April 2026 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Beccie Hawes. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What to do when your usual phonics approach doesn’t work.

Teacher Standard Links: 2, 3 and 5.

10 March 2026 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Emma Yates, Callum Ballinger and Lewis Collins. Cost £65

Topics:

  • Fine motor skill development.
  • Gross motor skill development.
  • Motor skills for learning.
  • Intervention ideas.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, and 5.

Whole Package Price: £155

Includes the following courses:

  • Identifying and Supporting Sensory Needs
  • Sensory Circuits: The What, When and How

13 February 2026 – 09.30 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Lou Holmes. Cost £120

Topics:

  • Eight senses.
  • Sensory Regulation.
  • Sensory Diets.
  • Auditing sensory needs.
  • Sensory management tools.
  • A sensory friendly environment.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, 5 and 7.

26 March 2026 – 1.15 to 3.30 pm – Delivered by Lou Holmes & Lewis Collins. Cost £65

Topics:

  • What is a sensory circuit?
  • Implementing a sensory circuit.
  • Measuring impact.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, 5 and 7.

Delivered by Lou Holmes & Lewis Collins. Cost £220

Day One: 17 April 2026 – 09.30 to 3.30 pm

Day Two: 22 May 2026 – 09.30 to 3.30 pm

Topics:

  • Neurodiversity and neurodivergence.
  • Disability equality.
  • ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, OCD, Tourettes, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyscalculia, PDA.

Teacher Standard Links: 1, 2, 5 and 7.