EDEAS (formerly EMTAS) inset day and key twilight training (online)

We are delivering training on key inset and twilight dates, to support schools in allocating time to improve their awareness and skills regarding multilingualism, Traveller support and equality, diversity and inclusion.

These training sessions are fully funded (free) for Devon maintained primary and secondary schools (excluding Plymouth) and Early Years settings (attached to maintained schools - excluding Plymouth and Torbay).  

There will be 3 x 1 hour sessions on each INSET day and schools can book onto one or more of the sessions. Schools only need to book one place on each session for their whole school.  

There will also be some key twilight training sessions on offer, these will take place between 15:45 - 16:45pm.

The Inset day and key twilight training will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams.

The sessions will cover the following topics:

Bullying, prejudice, and racism training
This whole school interactive training session initiates the discussion of staff’s understanding of bullying, prejudice and racism, whilst supporting the use of our BPRI guidance.

Closing the word gap
Vocabulary is one of the key building blocks in learning a new language and multilingual learners of all ages and at all stages of English language proficiency need additional support to increase their vocabulary. This workshop is aimed at KS2 and KS3.

Supporting multilingual children with writing
This is a workshop for teachers working with multilingual children who struggle to write despite being able to communicate. It considers recent research (2015,Victoria Murphy) which illustrates that multilingual children, even when matched on language skills to native-speaking children, still show key differences on their written compositions in relation to native-speaking children.

Improving support for multilingual children
An introduction to understanding a multilingual learner and how best to support them in the classroom.

Equality, diversity and inclusion awareness
An introduction to raising awareness of equality, diversity and supporting your setting to be fully inclusive.

Supporting multilingual children in the Early Years
An increasing number of children in Early Years settings are multilingual. There is no doubt about the importance that language plays in the lives of children.  Language develops rapidly in the early years and all young children, including multilingual children, benefit from good quality provision which focuses on interaction and the development of communication skills.  This training session is aimed at Early Years practitioners working with multilingual children.

Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and Showman (GRTS) Awareness training
Have a better understanding of the barriers which effect Traveller families in accessing education and have an improved awareness of how to engage effectively with these communities.