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Take a look at the Primary Leadership learning opportunities available to book:
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Summer Term 2026
Price: Sub £420 / SLA £310 / Full £504
Keyword Search: Deputy Network
Deputy Headteacher, Assistant Headteacher and Head of School Network 2026-27
This network is a six session course designed for deputy headteachers, assistant headteachers and heads of school to develop their skills and understanding and to network with peers.
Each session will be led by Primary Phase inspectors on a subject that has been selected by the group. The subjects are designed to help develop and support senior leaders in their role.
The course fee is for two attendees from each school
Fareham and Gosport
Basingstoke and Deane
Winchester and Eastleigh
New Forest
Test Valley
Hart and Rushmoor
2026
29 April
24 June
16 September
8 November21 May
11 June
1 October
5 November19 May
15 June
16 September
17 November28 April
1 July
24 September
24 November5 May
30 June
23 September
25 November21 April
1 July
8 October
26 November2027
20 January
10 March21 January
4 March26 January
9 March13 January
8 March12 January
10 March4 February
11 MarchAutumn Term 2026
Dates:
15 September, 20 October, 17 November 2026, 10 February and 9 March 2027
Price: Sub £475 / SLA £405 / Full £570
Keyword Search: Headteacher Toolkit
The Effective Headteacher Toolkit 2026-27
The Effective Headteacher Toolkit (formerly 5 Fundamentals of Effective School Leadership) is a well-established LA approach to enhancing and refining the skills and effectiveness of experienced headteachers. The training has, to date, been attended by over 100 headteachers from across Hampshire and beyond.
This series of workshops for experienced headteachers looks at five fundamental aspects of successful school leadership. The sessions explore how to be a highly effective headteacher in a period of competing pressures on your time and resources.
The course fee is for two attendees from each school.
Dates:
17 September, 30 September, 18 November 2026, 19 January, 10 February and 3 March 2026
Price: Sub £485 / SLA £375 / Full £582
Keyword Search: OAP 26-27 cohort 1
Embedding Ordinarily Available Provision (OAP) within High Quality Inclusive Teaching - 26-27 Cohort 1
This programme aims to ensure best practice of high-quality inclusive teaching in all classrooms, all of the time. Exploration of the published HIAS guidance: Ordinarily available provision and special educational needs and disabilities support will be a key thread of this programme as we explore approaches to implementation across different settings.
Sessions will provide opportunities to reflect on current practice, identifying strengths and next steps for your school to ensure effective implementation of high-quality inclusive teaching and ordinarily available provision. Throughout the programme, there will be opportunities to hear from experts from across educational services in Hampshire related to the specific needs of your school.
The course price entitles each school to bring up to two delegates to the sessions. The aim is that the leader of teaching and learning, who has strategic oversight, attends with a classroom teacher to facilitate an open dialogue about the school’s specific context and to enable change at both classroom and whole school level.
Dates:
Part 1 17 September, 12 November 2026, 21 January and 11 March 2027
Part 2 19 April and 17 June 2027Price:
Part 1 Sub £420 / SLA £390 / Full £504
Part 2 Sub £210 / SLA £195 / Full £252Total: Sub £630 / SLA £585 / Full £756
Keyword Search: Effective Leader
Becoming an Effective Leader
This six-part course provides delegates with a sound understanding of the process of effective middle leadership, giving delegates knowledge and skills to fulfil the role. There will be opportunities to reflect on core purpose and an insight into holding supportive conversations, ensuring leaders have clarity around the process of identifying, managing and evaluating change are also included.
Dates:
17 September, 22 October 2026, 22 January, 18 March, 22 April and 11 June 2027
Price:
Part 1: Sub £310 / SLA £210 / Full £372
Part 2: Sub £155 / SLA £110 / Full £186
Total: Sub £465 / SLA £320 / Full £558
Keyword Search: Developing Curriculum
Developing an Irresistible Curriculum
Creating a culture of inclusion through effective curriculum design. This course will offer participants the opportunity to reflect upon and develop the curriculum offer within their own school, with the aim of making it truly irresistible.
We will consider what makes an irresistible curriculum and what are the core principles which need to be in place to make this happen. What are they? Are they really in place? How do we know?
Leaders will have time to think strategically about ‘what’s next’ and ‘why’ for their own settings and learn from other settings and their approaches.
Dates:
Fareham and Gosport
18 September, 13 November 2026, 14 January, 4 March, 23 April and 17 June 2027Havant and East Hants
16 September, 18 November 2026, 20 January, 3 March, 28 April and 16 June 2027Hart and Rushmoor
24 September, 19 November 2026, 28 January,18 March, 29 April and 24 June 2027Basingstoke and Deane
22 September, 17 November 2026, 19 January, 9 March, 27 April and 22 June 2027Winchester and Eastleigh
24 September, 19 November 2026, 14 January, 18 March, 29 April and 24 June 2027Test Valley
17 September, 19 November 2026, 21 January, 4 March, 29 April and 17 June 2027New Forest
17 September, 19 November 2026, 21 January, 4 March, 29 April and 17 June 2027Price: Sub £375 / SLA £325 / Full £450 * split over two financial years
Part 1
Sub £250 / SLA £220 / Full £300
Part 2
Sub £125 / SLA £105 / Full £150Keyword Search: Safeguarding Network
Primary Safeguarding Networks 2026-27
This network focuses on the practical leadership and oversight of safeguarding and child protection in schools.
The district network is facilitated by the local LLPR with some input from Cindy Pritchard (HIAS Lead Safeguarding Adviser).
These sessions are aimed at senior leaders and are designed to enable effective oversight of safeguarding. Each session focuses on a different aspect of the leadership of safeguarding. There will also be opportunities for participants to discuss local contextual safeguarding issues, problem solve and share best practice.
Please note, this network is the continuation of existing networks that have been running in Fareham and Gosport and Havant and East Hants but is now offered across the county at a district level. Sessions run concurrently across other districts, meaning attendees can attend alternative group sessions should dates clash.
Important: This network does not replace statutory DSL training and is separate to any existing DSL networks.
The course price entitles a school to two places
Dates:
21 September, 23 October, 26 November, 7 December 2026, 19 January and 2 March 2027
Price: Sub £430 / SLA £315 / Full £516
Keyword Search: Subject Leadership
New to Subject Leadership (Primary)
This course is designed to support subject leaders by exploring the range of knowledge and skills required to address the specific challenges faced when leading a subject. Spanning six sessions, new subject leaders will have opportunities to focus on all aspects of strategically leading their subject within the context of their school.
The course fee is for two attendees from each school.
Dates:
29 September, 14 October, 10 November 2026, 20 January and 15 March 2027
Price: Sub £620 / SLA £465 / Full £744
Keyword Search: Five Fundamentals 2026
Five Fundamentals of Effective Classroom Practice 2026-27
A series of whole-day training sessions for headteachers and leaders of teaching and learning.
The new Ofsted framework has identified leaders’ impact on the development of teaching as a key area of focus. This training will develop school leaders’ instructional leadership capacity and their effectiveness in developing the quality and consistency of teaching across all classes.
The course fee is for two attendees from each school.
Date: 1 October 2026
Price: Sub £315 / SLA £145 / Full £378
Keyword Search: Ofsted Renewed
Ofsted Briefing - Renewed Education Inspection Framework 2025
These termly briefings aim to deepen the knowledge and understanding of headteachers and chairs of governors in respect of the current Ofsted inspection framework. The sessions are particularly targeted at schools who are likely to be inspected within the next 6 months.
There will be opportunities to review information relating to the latest national and local inspection trends and patterns and consider implications for their own school. Additional input will be provided by headteachers of schools that have been recently inspected under the current framework (2025) and members of the Primary Phase Inspector team who support schools through the process.
A senior leader and chair of governors are invited to attend but do not need to book a place. Headteachers who have booked a place will receive the course details, which they should share.
The course price entitles a school to three places at the briefing (the headteacher, senior leader and chair of governors).
Dates:
2 October, 19 November 2026, 18 January and 8 March 2027
Price: Sub £685 / SLA £600 / Full £822
Keyword Search: Collaborative Curriculum
A Toolkit for Collaborative Curriculum Development: Empowering Subject Leaders
This course is designed for headteachers, senior leaders and those responsible for curriculum or subject development in school.
This course will equip you and your subject leaders to reflect on and evaluate your current curriculum offer, enabling you to accurately articulate and evidence its impact, while identifying clear next steps for development, all with the new inspection toolkit in mind.
Key areas covered include:
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Reviewing and refining your curriculum offer to ensure that:
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- the planned curriculum is the taught curriculum with a focus on strong foundations
- barriers to learning across the wider curriculum are reduced.
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How to maximise the impact of subject leaders.
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Creating a cost-effective monitoring and evaluation schedule.
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Effective monitoring documentation to evidence your impact.
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How to coach in having difficult conversations.
The course fee is for two attendees from each school.
Dates:
Part 1
8 October, 5 November, 3 December 2026, 21 January, 25 February, 18 March 2027Part 2
22 April and 13 May 2027Price:
Part 1 - Sub £342 / SLA £150 / Full £410
Part 2 - Sub £113 / SLA £50 / Full £136
Total Price: Sub £455 / SLA £200 / Full £546Keyword Search: Making Headway 27
Making Headway 2026-27
A Leadership Programme for aspiring deputy headteachers, assistant headteachers and heads of school.
Aims of the Programme are to:
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prepare delegates for the role of senior leader
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challenge, motivate and inspire delegates to become future educational leaders
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ensure delegates have a clear and pragmatic understanding of the role of the senior leader and the challenges and tensions of school leadership
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support delegates in understanding their own strengths and identifying areas for future personal development
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prepare delegates for the interview and selection procedure
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develop delegates' confidence in their own ability to provide leadership that will make a positive difference to the lives and life-chances of children.
Date: 15 October 2026
Price: Sub £160 / SLA £50 / Full £192
Keyword Search: Curriculum Conference
Hampshire Primary Curriculum Conference 2026
A full-day conference offering the opportunity to explore and share effective approaches to curriculum design, drawing on practice from across Hampshire and beyond.
The programme combines a mix of morning presentations with afternoon workshop sessions, providing both strategic insight and practical application. Delegates will be able to select up to two workshop sessions during the afternoon.
This year’s keynote speaker is Emma Turner, who has over 28 years’ experience in primary education, including roles in teaching, headship and system leadership across multi-academy trusts. Now an independent consultant working nationally and internationally, Emma is the author of six bestselling books on curriculum, cognitive science and leadership, and co-host of the “Mind the Gap” podcast with Tom Sherrington. She is a highly regarded speaker on curriculum design, research-informed practice and staff development.
Emma will also lead an afternoon workshop session, with a focus on curriculum planning in mixed-age classes offering a further opportunity to engage with her work in more depth.
Spring Term 2027
Dates:
Part 1
12 January, 26 January, 9 March 2027Part 2
22 April, 25 May and 23 June 2027Price:
Part 1: Sub £243 / SLA £190 / Full £291
Part 2: Sub £242 / SLA £185 / Full £291
Total Price: Sub £485 / SLA £375 / Full £582
Keyword Search: OAP Cohort 2
Embedding Ordinarily Available Provision (OAP) within High Quality Inclusive Teaching – 26-27 Cohort 2
This programme aims to ensure best practice of high-quality inclusive teaching in all classrooms, all of the time. Exploration of the published HIAS guidance: Ordinarily available provision and special educational needs and disabilities support will be a key thread of this programme as we explore approaches to implementation across different settings.
Sessions will provide opportunities to reflect on current practice, identifying strengths and next steps for your school to ensure effective implementation of high-quality inclusive teaching and ordinarily available provision. Throughout the programme, there will be opportunities to hear from experts from across educational services in Hampshire related to the specific needs of your school.
The course price entitles each school to bring up to two delegates to the sessions. The aim is that the leader of teaching and learning, who has strategic oversight, attends with a classroom teacher to facilitate an open dialogue about the school’s specific context and to enable change at both classroom and whole school level.
Date: 29 January 2027
Price: Sub £315 / SLA £145 / Full £378
Keyword Search: Ofsted Renewed
Ofsted Briefing - Renewed Education Inspection Framework 2025
These termly briefings aim to deepen the knowledge and understanding of headteachers and chairs of governors in respect of the current Ofsted inspection framework. The sessions are particularly targeted at schools who are likely to be inspected within the next 6 months.
There will be opportunities to review information relating to the latest national and local inspection trends and patterns and consider implications for their own school. Additional input will be provided by headteachers of schools that have been recently inspected under the current framework (2025) and members of the Primary Phase Inspector team who support schools through the process.
A senior leader and chair of governors are invited to attend but do not need to book a place. Headteachers who have booked a place will receive the course details, which they should share.
The course price entitles a school to three places at the briefing (the headteacher, senior leader and chair of governors).
Summer Term 2027
Date: 29 April 2027
Price: Sub £315 / SLA £145 / Full £378
Keyword Search: Ofsted Renewed
Ofsted Briefing - Renewed Education Inspection Framework 2025
These termly briefings aim to deepen the knowledge and understanding of headteachers and chairs of governors in respect of the current Ofsted inspection framework. The sessions are particularly targeted at schools who are likely to be inspected within the next 6 months.
There will be opportunities to review information relating to the latest national and local inspection trends and patterns and consider implications for their own school. Additional input will be provided by headteachers of schools that have been recently inspected under the current framework (2025) and members of the Primary Phase Inspector team who support schools through the process.
A senior leader and chair of governors are invited to attend but do not need to book a place. Headteachers who have booked a place will receive the course details, which they should share.
The course price entitles a school to three places at the briefing (the headteacher, senior leader and chair of governors).
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