Events
Coding family night
Date: Thursday, 18th October 2018 Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: St Bede's Catholic Primary School, Wortley Road, Rotherham S61 1PD
Families and local teachers will have an opportunity to explore the Coding curriculum with stimulating and exciting hands-on activities for primary pupils.
Attendees will visit a range of stations each featuring a different activity. Each station will demonstrate how coding education is preparing our pupils to succeed in future careers. These will be hands-on activities, many of which will be led by pupils from St. Bede’s.
Recommended for local primary teachers and families. Refreshments will be provided!
ISA Autumn Study Conference 2018
Date: 8th - 9th November 2018 Time: 10 AM - 1 PM
Location: Holiday Inn, Hinckley Road, Coventry CV2 2HP
Discovery Education will be attending ISA Autumn Study Conference as a Gold Preferred Supplier to all ISA members, offering exciting digital learning resources, professional development solutions and innovative networking opportunities.
Come and see us to find out what’s new on Discovery Education Espresso and Discovery Education Coding. Hear about our latest classroom contests and challenges, and get a live demo. With over 23,000 digital media resources for all subjects across Foundation to Key Stage 2, our curated learning service can be used flexibly within lessons, to suit any teaching style.
Recommended for: ISA Members and Senior leaders of their schools, School Associates, Life Associates.
Special Educational Needs Conference
Date: Wednesday, 14th November 2018 Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: AJ Bell Stadium, Manchester M30 7EY
Discovery Education will be attending the Special Educational Needs Conference. Come and visit our stand to hear how Discovery Education Espresso can develop more powerful communication, promote wider lesson accessibility and accelerate learning through digital media.
At 12:30 PM Chris Nash, Discovery Education’s Head of Community will be running a ‘A Window to the World – enhancing learning opportunities through digital media and tools workshop. This session explores powerful teaching strategies for using digital media to develop and enhance communication and social interaction skills.
Visit the event website to purchase your ticket (starting from £99+ VAT) or email discoveryeducationUK@discovery.com to claim your FREE guest pass.*
Recommended for Special Education Providers, SEN teachers, SENCOs, and Head Teachers. *Limited numbers available
teachIT Education Conference: Computing in the classroom
Date: Tuesday, 20th November 2018 Time: 8:45 AM - 4 PM
Location: The Pear Tree Inn & Country Hotel, Worcester WR3 8SY
Discovery Education will be attending Rivers Teaching Alliance’s upcoming Computing conference, designed to share best practice and for you to discover innovative, effective new ways to integrate IT into the classroom in a cross curricular way and enhance pupil progress.
At 11:45AM (Bartlett Suite): James Massey, Discovery Education’s Head of Professional Development will be running a “Think like a coder” workshop. This session will explore using online and offline activities to develop skills in logical reasoning, problem solving, communication and collaboration on projects.
You can also visit Stand 2 to hear about our curriculum-matched resources on Discovery Education Espresso.
Visit the event website to purchase your ticket (£75 per delegate)
Recommended for Head Teachers, Senior Leaders, IT Co-ordinators, Teachers and Teaching Assistants.
Day of Discovery (London)
Date: Wednesday, 21st November 2018 Time: 9 AM - 4 PM
Location: Alexandra Palace, Alexandra Palace Way, London N22 7AY
Join us at the iconic home of television broadcast, Alexandra Palace in North London, for a day of workshops and activities, designed to engage and motivate young learners and help infuse the news throughout your curriculum.
Delegates will leave with practical examples of how pupils can use news articles to develop inference and deduction skills, distinguish between fact and opinion and explore writing for different viewpoints. This FREE of charge day of professional development will inspire and excite every educator.
Recommended for primary school literacy co-ordinators, computing co-ordinators, teachers, teaching assistants & support staff.
An introduction to online safety
Date: Monday, 10th December 2018 Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: ISA House, Great Chesterford, Essex CB10 1PF
Schools play a key role in promoting how to keep young learners safe online. Join us for an evening workshop exploring how to embed good practice in online safety.
This FREE workshop will;
- ensure you are familiar with the key elements of online safety
- provide an overview of the online safety requirements within the curriculum and how this may transfer to policies and procedures within school
- showcase a range of resources from Discovery Education Espresso that are available to subscribers to assist in the delivery of online safety in the classroom
Refreshments will be provided. Recommended for all primary school-based staff.