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Our Vision

EQUALS is committed to improving the lives of children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities through supporting high quality education.

Our Mission

To promote, share and reflect best practice in learning and teaching through collaborative working with practitioners and professionals at a national, regional and local level.

Half-Day Conference

Sensory Issues: are they the Key to Unlocking Autism?

Thursday 10th May 2012, University of Manchester.

Dr Wendy Lawson will be sharing her experiences, insights and knowledge.

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EQUALS One Day Conference

Towards Outstanding Governance in Special Schools

Friday 15th June 2012, Manchester Conference Centre.

The Conference will draw on aspects of the new OFSTED publication 'School governance: Learning from the best' and is aimed at school leaders and governors.

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Best Practice Workshops

Spring Term 2012

• Confident Parenting
• Intensive Interaction

Summer Term 2012

• P Scale Moderation Workshops
• An SLD Curriculum for the 21st Century

Autumn Term 2012

Rebound Therapy

Key Stage 3 - Themes

Cross Curriculum Themes

• For teachers working with pupils who are achieving within the P Scales.
• A topic based curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties.
• Linked to the seven cross Curricular Dimensions.

More details will appear here early 2012.

CASPA - Free Presentation Sessions

CASPA is a simple and easy-to-use tool to assist with the analysis and evaluation of attainment and progresss of pupils with Special Educational Needs. CASPA makes available to schools the information that they need for self-evaluation and to drive school improvement.

CASPA can analyse EQUALS PACE assessment scores, and will replace the EQUALS Target Setting Project run in previous years.

You and your colleagues are invited to a presentation and demonstration of CASPA. The events are taking place in London and Manchester in January/February 2012.

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Using P Scales to access
pupils progress

New from the QCDA Qualifications & Curriculum Development Agency)

Guidance for practitioners and
senior school leaders in schools

• What is it about?
• What is it for?
• How can we access these materials?

Become an EQUALS Member

• Help support the work of EQUALS.

Members receive exclusive
information throughout the year and claim discounts on EQUALS publications, conferences and workshops.

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Are you needing a replacement to the old Ofsted Self Evaluation Form (SEF)?

If the answer is yes...

EQUALS has entered a partnership with Derbyshire County Council who have produced an electronic School Self Evaluation Summary (SES) document which is aligned to the new Ofsted Inspection Framework and Evaluation Schedule.

It is a flexible tool and enables you to capture in one place an overview of your school, your evaluation of the evidence and the associated judgements. There is also the opportunity to link this directly to your school improvement plan.

This is available on CD Rom at a price of £50.00 inclusive of VAT.

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New - The EQUALS
Guide to Literacy

Supporting access for pupils working towards Level 1 of the National Curriculum

• presented within P Levels (P1-P8)
• covers EYFS and Key Stages 1-3
• divided into the current twelve primary strategy strands

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14-19 EsSENtials

EQUALS Moving On Scheme
14-19 year students

• Schools adopting this scheme will be able to receive accreditation that will be awarded by EQUALS.
• Support advisors/moderators co-ordinate a regional network for training and external moderation

Globetrotter & Voyager
Two new one year programmes
• New materials for Functional Skills and supplementary resources for
Sex and Relationships Education.
There are also updated versions of Adventurer, Explorer and Traveller.

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Currently in Development

Creative Arts
A team is currently developing some new materials for Creativity.

Aims
• To provide guidance on the Creative Arts to classroom teachers and school curriculum managers.
• To create a 'Learning Community' with best practice schools, via the website and experts in the field.
• To create a basis for future best practice workshops.

It is hoped this will be available to order during 2012.

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