Empowering School Leaders for Success
Expert training and consultancy for primary education.
Empowering School Leaders
Our Mission
At Leadership Development, we are dedicated to enhancing the skills of primary school leaders across the UK. Our tailored training programmes ensure that educators are equipped to inspire and lead effectively in their institutions.
CHanges to OFSTED inspections - From September 2025
The Changes...
New Ofsted Report Cards will give better information to parents in a simple format. They include a colour-coded 5-point grading scale to evaluate more areas of a provider’s work at-a-glance,
accompanied by short summaries of inspectors’ findings in more detail.
An overall effectiveness grade will no longer be awarded.
From autumn 2025, it’s proposed that Ofsted will no longer carry out
ungraded inspections of state-funded schools. This means every school will know that its next routine Ofsted inspection will be a full, graded one.
What does this mean for your school?
What will the new grading system measure?
Why is safeguarding now a separate judgement?
What will I need to do to prepare?
Join us for a half-day information session on Thursday 25th June 2025. Follow the link to the right of this panel for more information.
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developing the child's whole mind
Memory and Learning
This is a half- day online course.
Different parts of a child's brain develop at different speeds and understanding these differences can help you turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate a child's brain and educate calmer, happier children.
The course will help your pupils to lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives using twelve key strategies, including:
Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain's affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
Engage, Don't Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child's emotional state.
Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.
Join us for a half-day information session on the 3rd July 2025. Follow the link to the right of this panel for more information.
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Deep dives in early yEARS - INSPECTION READY
Deep Dives in Early Years
This is a half- day online course.
1st July 2025
Ofsted’s inspection framework will still focus on the core subjects as well as the breadth of the curriculum, and although Early Years is not a specific ‘deep dive’ in inspections, but subject inspectors will be interested in diving into it. This is not just early reading and phonics but can be the pre-skills involved in geography, design technology and science, for example. This course will provide EYFS leaders and senior leaders with background information on the deep dive process as well as ideas and tools to use in school to audit and evaluate Early Years against the three I’s – intent, implementation and impact.
Now is the time to audit and evaluate Early Years provision in your school.
The course will:
- Support leaders in their evaluation of the early years curriculum and teaching;
- Develop leadership skills, coaching skills and examine the difficulties of leading a team;
- Help leaders plan for a deep dive so they know their curriculum well and feel prepared to talk about strengths and areas for development with confidence.
The processes which underpin a deep dive can provide additional structure and rigour to your school's own monitoring and evaluation systems across the full range of subjects. This course provides ideas and question prompts for the deep dive process. Suggested sources of evidence; methods of enquiry and sources of evaluation criteria are also provided. The course material can be used by school leaders and subject leaders to complement existing processes, or to provide a structure against which to evaluate current practice. It will also help senior leaders and subject leaders become more familiar with the processes and questions typically used by inspectors.
This training aims to delve deeply into the quality of early years provision and whether the approach is good enough to achieve the desired outcomes.
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Contact us
How can I help?
We have over 30 years of experience in school leadership, including at local and national government levels, as well as acadaemia.
Leadership Development
Tarleton, Lancashire, PR4 6FN
Hours
Open today | 09:00 – 17:00 |
