Conference

 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for our LDBS schools to attend
 
A Professional Development day with Gary Wilson:
Breaking Down the Barriers: Raising Boys’ Achievement
 
Venue: Laycock Professional Development Centre
Laycock Street
London
N1 1TH
 
Thursday, 8th March, 2012
09.15 – 3pm (refreshments from 8.45am)
Gary is a freelance consultant who talks about tracing under achievement from Pre School to 16 and what we can do to prevent it.  He explains about how to interact with boys to optimise learning and overcoming barriers to achievement.
Gary has been a teacher for 26 years in Huddersfield and has spent a great deal of that career specializing in raising boys’ achievement. He is a fantastic speaker – providing his audience with real tried and tested methods to break the boundaries of boys’ under achievement and bring about significant whole school improvement. He is the author of several books on the subject and is used extensively by several LAs and organisations to implement his ideas on closing the gender gap. He has appeared on the radio and teachers’ tv on numerous occasions and acted as consultant to the BBC during last year’s School Week.
(For further information : www.garywilsonraisingboysachievement.co.uk
For free PD support and video clips of Gary go to www.oxfordprimary.co.uk and click on Professional Development/Boys Achievement
 
Primary schools are invited to send 1 or 2delegates to the PD session (Headteachers, Literacy Co-ordinators, Senior Management). There are 70 places available and early registration is advised - an agenda is attached for further information. Please reply to carolyn.brenta@ldbsscitt.org  by 18th February 2012.
There will be an opportunity to network and discuss with other colleagues on issues around boys reading in your school. It would be helpful to bring any information that you feel is relevant to the workshop to support this conversation.
The event is sponsored by The London Diocesan Board of Schools and Oxford University Press and the training is free to our primary schools. A £20 charge for refreshments will however be made to delegates to cover tea/coffees and a light lunch.
There will be an opportunity during the day to review the Project X reading materials that Gary will refer to during his training. Project X is a new resource that has been researched, developed and designed to raise boy’s literacy standards.