London Curriculum webinars
The Mayor is committed to improving access to high-quality education. These online events have been created to support teachers, students and parents across London schools.
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Webinar recordings
7 July 2021 | The Black Curriculum Teacher CPD: A racially literate mindset in action
We were delighted to collaborate once again with The Black Curriculum for a follow-up webinar exploring concepts such as stereotyping, bias and intersectionality as well as practical applications in the classroom.
Watch the webinar below to gain the ingredients for an impactful action plan that can start making a difference straight away.
10 March 2021 | The Black Curriculum Teacher CPD: Resource Launch
In October 2020, the Mayor announced a partnership with The Black Curriculum to lead an expert review of all three of the London Curriculum's KS3 history units: 'World City', 'Social Reform in Victorian London' and 'London at War'. These refreshed units are now available to download, enabling you to embed Black History across the academic year.
The Black Curriculum hosted a teacher CPD webinar to discuss how the resources have been enhanced and the reasons for this. The recording below will help you feel supported and confident in teaching Black British histories, and embedding racial literacy across curriculum practices. Whilst the resources are KS3, there are insights all teachers will find helpful and our resources can easily be adapted for primary pupils.
24 February 2021 | Using Microsoft Teams to Deliver Remote Learning for Secondary Aged Students
The London Curriculum has teamed up with Microsoft and Tablet Academy to deliver a series of webinars aimed at supporting school leaders and classroom educators to further embed and benefit from features provided by Microsoft tools. The focus of these events is to help institutions looking to develop their in-class delivery and remote programmes.
This webinar will address how to get the most out of the technology available to you when using Microsoft Teams and other freely available tools to facilitate remote (or hybrid) learning. Specifically for seconary aged students.
10 February 2021 | Using Microsoft Teams to Deliver Remote Learning for Primary Aged Students
The London Curriculum has teamed up with Microsoft and Tablet Academy to deliver a series of webinars aimed at supporting school leaders and classroom educators to further embed and benefit from features provided by Microsoft tools. The focus of these events is to help institutions looking to develop their in-class delivery and remote programmes.
This webinar will address how to get the most out of the technology available to you when using Microsoft Teams and other freely available tools to facilitate remote (or hybrid) learning. Specifically for primary aged students.
11 Nov 2020 | Fashion London | Secondary Teacher CPD Webinar
Written by London College of Fashion, the Mayor's latest London Curriculum resource features free lesson plans, student workbooks and presentations to lead students through the complete design process - from brand concept through to product manufacture and retail.
During this webinar, the London College of Fashion will help you explore ways you can use the new resource in your teaching. The resource is aimed at KS3 but can easily be adapted across year groups, for after school clubs and for remote learning.
A summarised version of the slides used in this webinar is attached below.
Download Fashion London CPD Summarised Slides
4 Nov 2020 | #FutureCareersinFashion | Explore creative futures with industry experts
Did you know:
- The UK's Fashion industry is worth £26 billion and employs 800,000 jobs, making it the UK's largest creative industry
- Each year there's been a 25% increase in social media use by fashion brands - largely driven by Instagram
- 45% of apparel companies are looking to use more sustainable, bio-based materials in their manufacturing
At this live event you will discover the diversity of jobs in fashion and understand what future skills are needed for a successful career.
You will hear from our industry expert panel who represent five major sectors in fashion - sustainability, journalism, design, retail and manufacturing.
16 Oct 2020 | Careers with Impact: Meet the Programmers who #CodeTheWorld | Live Event
Many people associate computing with phones, games or a subject in school. But did you know that it also plays a big part in transport, healthcare, environment, sustainability, education and human rights?
This Ada Lovelace Day, you will get the chance to hear from real-life programmers and computer scientists who #CodeTheWorld on a daily basis and ask them your questions. What do they really do? Can they make the world a better place? And how can you become one?
The slides and a recording from this session are available below.
12 Oct 2020 | Breaking the Gender Barriers in Computing | Ada Lovelace Day CPD
A significant gender gap exists in computing at schools, with more boys than girls pursuing computing-related subjects at both GCSE and A-level, with the result that fewer women than men go on to work in the computing and digital technology sectors. How can teachers of computing help remove the barriers girls face in computing?
The session explored the social and cultural barriers to participation in computing and offer strategies to encourage more girls to participate in computing, both in primary and secondary.
The slides and a recording from this session are available below.
23 September 2020 | Teaching Science Through English and Maths - Primary Teacher CPD
Following the disruption to children’s education caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government stated that, for pupils in Key Stages 1 and 2 in the coming year:
“School leaders are expected to prioritise identifying gaps and re-establish good progress in the essentials (phonics and reading, increasing vocabulary, writing and mathematics)”.
To achieve this, time for teaching the Science curriculum may get squeezed. However, the Government’s guidance also requires that
“the majority of pupils are taught a full range of subjects over the year, including sciences”.
This webinar explored how primary teachers can integrate aspects of the Science curriculum into English and Maths to create the time to teach all three core subjects.
A recording and slides from the session are available below.
8 July 2020 | Re-building Pupils' Practical and Enquiry Skills in Secondary Science | CPD webinar
During school closures most pupils will have had little opportunity to engage in practical science. How can teachers give pupils a boost in developing these skills and increase their confidence in refining and applying them? In this session, we discussed what next year's secondary science curriculum could look like with a focus on building pupils' confidence in practical and enquiry skills.
The slides from the event are available below. Unfortunately something went wrong during the recording of the event, so this is not available.
24 June 2020 | Careers with Impact: Meet the Engineers who #ShapeTheWorld | Live Event
What do engineers do? How can they make the world a better place? At this live careers event, students got the chance to hear from real-life engineers who #ShapeTheWorld on a daily basis and ask them anything they were wondering about engineering.
The slides from the event are available below. A video recording of the event will be available here shortly.
17 June 2020 | Key Stage 3 Computing for Non-Specialist Teachers: CPD Webinar
Computing is a national curriculum foundation subject and a vital aspect of a broad and balanced curriculum for all learners. This webinar allowed new or existing teachers of Key Stage 3 computing to explore the subject knowledge required to teach the Key Stage 3 programme of study.
A recording and slides from the session are available below.
20 May 2020 | Differentiating Effectively in Science: Primary Teacher Webinar
During school closures, children will have had very different learning experiences, so the future teaching of science topics is going to require even more careful assessment of prior learning and differentiation where gaps in learning are identified.
This webinar looked at how to translate the results of assessment of learning into effective differentiated teaching to support all learners to achieve the expected outcomes.
A recording and the slides from the session are available below.
13 May 2020 | Intro to Primary Computing: CPD webinar for Primary Teachers
Computing is a practical and creative subject covering computer science, information technology (IT), and digital literacy. It encourages invention and resourcefulness, and the ideas of computing are applied to understanding systems and creating products for the real world.
Primary school computing focuses on helping pupils to build foundational skills such as computational thinking, and gain an understanding of the technological world in which they live.
This webinar explored the computing curriculum for Key Stage 1 and 2 in England and the support, resources and free CPD that is available for teachers and schools.
A recording and the slides from the session are available below.
22 April 2020 | Plan now. Assess later? CPD webinar for Primary Science Teachers
As a result of the closure of schools due to coronavirus, we know that most children will have lost months of teaching. Some children will have been supported at home to continue to learn, and others not, resulting in a greater than usual disparity between children and gaps in prior learning that will need to be addressed by teachers when schools reopen.
Now is a good time for schools and teachers to start to think about whether their current planning meets the requirements of the National Curriculum and the particular needs of the pupils in their schools. Assessment is a critical part of this. This session provided teachers with advice on how to do this successfully and some resources that might help with the task.
A recording and the slides from the session are available below.
23 March 2020 | Primary Teacher CPD: Supporting child-led science investigations
A central aim of primary science education is to nurture children so that they become independent, self-motivated scientists. An essential part of this is giving children opportunities to take the lead in their own learning and ask questions that they are interested in and know about. Letting go and allowing children to make decisions about what and how they investigate can be daunting, however it shouldn't be scary if we manage it well.
This CPD webinar shared best practice and aimed to help teachers support children to develop their own questions that they have the capacity to investigate and share with others.
A recording and slides from the session are available below.
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