Events and Bookings

Please note you are booking to attend all 3 sessions:

• Session 1: 22/09/2026 - Atkins Centre (09:30 - 15:30)

• Session 2: 17/11/2027 - Online (15:00 - 16:45)

• Session 3: 14/01/2027 - Online (15:00 - 16:45)

 

Target Audience:

Headteachers, Senior Leaders, SENCos

 

Overview:

Session 1 - Setting the Foundations

• This face-to-face launch introduces participants to the critical foundations of mainstream specialist spaces. This will include:
• Clarifying the problem, you are solving and determining if internal, specialist provision is the best, most feasible solution for your setting.
• Defining leadership responsibilities, decision-making processes, and how to enact a clear vision.
• Exploring appropriate curriculum models for cohorts with complex SEND profiles and strategically drawing on specialist sector expertise.
• Teaching skills with high utility and how to focus on skills that have the greatest impact on learning and life.
• Real-world examples of strong practice, including how to use visuals effectively and adapt teaching for individual communication modes, learning pace, and precise developmental stages.
• Principles for effective assessment within a specialist provision in mainstream
• This session will also see the launch of Kemnal’s trust wide self-evaluation and quality assurance documents, to support participants on their school-improvement journey.

Professional Development Group  - Running Effective Support Bases

 

Session 2 - Action Planning with a spotlight focus on working in partnership with families.

Having used the Trust-wide toolkit, participants will collectively review findings and identify next steps.
There will also be a focused discussion on working successfully with families, moving past the ‘what’ of family contact towards robust,
successful and enduring partnerships.

 

Session 3 - Impact and Sustainability with a spotlight focus on pupil experience.

In this final session, Participants will share progress towards actions identified through the toolkit, as part of a community of practice. This will focus on impact and sustainability, ensuring improvements are taking root as intended. There will also be a spotlight focus on pupil experience, and strategies for capturing the lived experiences of our children - moving past tokenistic & “student voice” toward intentional responsiveness. We will discuss how to genuinely decode the needs of our most complex learners and pivot our provision to meet them where they are, not where we expect them to be.

 

Additional Information:

Atkins Centre Visitor Information

PARKING:

Car parking is available for visitors to the Atkins Centre and Centre Staff alike at the front of the school, please enter by the gates from Sevenoaks Way (opposite Cornwall Drive). Please do not park in unmarked spaces, or in marked visitors’ spaces (unless previously booked). Parking is provided on a first come, first served, basis. If there are no spaces available there is alternative parking for Atkins Centre visitors on the roads surrounding the College. Please use the pedestrian access at the front of the College on Sevenoaks Way, if necessary.

Visitors to the Atkins Centre are advised that under no circumstances are they to seek to park/gain access via the rear of the College, to ensure the College maintains its safeguarding responsibilities.

DRESS CODE:

Just a reminder that all attendees are expected to be dressed in a professional and business-like manner unless otherwise stated in the event details. Please also always wear your school ID badge when on the premises.

ULEZ CHARGES:

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