Hackney Education Post-16 Summer Conference

Thursday 23 June 2022, 9.30 – 16.30 

New City College Hackney, Falkirk St, London N1 6HQ 

 £150 (+VAT) per delegate

Post-16 Full Package customers can avail of 4 free spaces.
Post-16 Network only customers can avail of 2 free spaces.

Hackney Education Post-16 Summer Conference offers those working with young people in 16-19 education the opportunity to learn from industry experts and share their ideas and experiences.

Speakers on the day will draw on their own current experiences to provide practical strategies and resources to meet the demands and challenges of the 2022/23 Post-16 landscape.

The key themes covered have emerged from national and local strategy, plans and topics, as well as the highly valued Hackney Education Post-16 network meetings.

Workshops build on these morning sessions as well as wellbeing in schools, identified by College and Sixth Form Leads as an area of increasing importance for post-16 students.

Throughout the day, attendees will:

  • explore teaching and learning strategies which meet the challenges of the changing curriculum and assessment
  • learn from current practitioners what creates a positive environment for post 16 students to enable them to achieve their target grades and improve outcomes for post 16 students
  • explore practical next steps which they can adapt for their own school/college context.

Who should attend this conference?

  • School and College Leaders in Post 16 Education
  • Heads and Deputy Heads of school Sixth Forms
  • Managers of 16-19 provision in Colleges
  • Heads of Year 12 or 13
  • KS5 subject/teaching and learning leads
  • Deputy Heads with leadership responsibility for the Curriculum or CPD

Areas covered on the day

  • Key insights from Ofsted
  • Delivering a diverse and anti-racist curriculum
  • Strategies for building an inclusive sixth form and increasing students numbers
  • Levelling up in a post-16 landscape
  • Why parental engagement is key

Programme

09.30 – Registration

09.40 – Introduction and welcome: Anya James, Hackney Education and Katie Stafford, New City College, Hackney 

9.50 – Anti Racist Strategy: Orlene Badu

10.15 – Oftsed: Gayle Saundry, Senior HMI, Ofsted

  • Careers and the curriculum
  • Ofsted and Accountability Changes Ofsted and Accountability Changes
  • Q&A

10.45 – The Ofsted Experience and work experience, and the careers hub: Hannah Potter, The Skinners Academy

10.55 – Stall presentation: Lisa Goodship, Pixl

11.00 – Break

11.15 – Safeguarding students: Cynthia John, Cardinal Pole

11.30 – Decolonising the Curriculum: Hannah Preedy, Stoke Newington School

11.45 – Student voices

  • The Sixth form experience
  • How we prevent racism in schools 

12.10 – Stall presentation: John Phillips, Alps 

12.15 – Lunch break and college tour  

13.30 – Strategies for inclusive 6th forms and maintaining and improving students numbers

  • Parental engagement at Post 16: Debra Robinson
  • Widening the curriculum: Fergus Kirby, City Academy
  • Transitional Programmes: Liam Broom, Bsix
  • Improving student numbers in 6th form and supporting the most disadvantaged to access higher education: Ranjit Pablia St Aloysius

14.20 – Stall presentation: Matthew Lewendon, Circle Collective, and Dr Hugh Monrow, Wadham College

14.30 – Workshop session 1

Reducing accountability workload: Ijeoma Nwankwo 

OR 

Diverse curriculum: Debra Robinson 

15.00 – Break

15.15 – Workshop session 2

Practical strategies that work for A Level: Ijeoma Nwankwo

OR 

Alps student-led analysis your school or college will love: John Philips

15.45 – What does Levelling up mean for Post 16 and Q&A: Eddie Playfair

16:15 – Networking and closing remarks  

16:30 – End of conference 

Workshops

Workshop session 1

Reducing accountability workload: Ijeoma Nwankwo 

OR 

Diverse curriculum: Debra Robinson 

Workshop session 2

Practical strategies that work for A Level: Ijeoma Nwankwo

OR 

Alps student-led analysis your school or college will love: John Philips

Gayle Saundry

Gayle is a Senior Her Majesty’s Inspector of Further Education and Skills in London. Gayle is a qualified teacher and experienced senior leader of specialist sixth-form and further education provision, most recently in the role of principal. Her teaching background is in economics and business. Gayle’s leadership responsibilities have included self-assessment, quality improvement and supporting the establishment of new providers. Gayle has been a governor and a trustee and is an experienced project manager and management consultant.