What will you learn? Compare common myths with actual data on school attainment levels of multilingual learners. Explore how embracing linguistic diversity enriches students’ educational experiences and wellbeing as well as contributes positively to their academic achievements. Effective strategies to support multilingual learners and promote an inclusive educational environment. Hear real-life examples of putting this into practice. Our speakers Professor Roberto Filippi Professor at the UCL Institute of Education in London Roberto's research primarily explores multilanguage acquisition and its impacts on cognitive control, memory and metacognitive processes, using behavioural and neuroimaging methods. He is particularly focused on the developmental and educational implications of multilingual environments for both typically developing children and those with neurodivergent profiles. He investigates how multilingualism across the lifespan can confer cognitive and metacognitive benefits, aiming to uncover potential advantages for lifelong learners. Additionally, he has multiple publications in high-impact journals, has edited online collections on multilingualism and established valuable international collaborations in the field. Soofia Amin Assistant Head Teacher at Kensington Primary School and Specialist Lead in Education for Multilingualism Soofia empowers educators with strategies that foster a whole-school approach to multilingualism, ensuring that every learner’s linguistic background is recognized as a valued asset. She has worked with the Department for Education in Priority Areas, supporting schools to enhance provision for multilingual learners. She collaborates with academics and researchers to develop evidence-based best practices, ensuring multilingualism is embedded effectively within her practice. Her work bridges policy, practice, and research to create sustainable and impactful change in schools nationwide Lusine Nalbandyan-Andreke Customer Success Executive - International at FlashAcademy® Lusine brings a unique blend of legal expertise and a lifelong passion for languages. Fluent in English, Armenian, Russian and French (and currently learning Lithuanian), she deeply understands the challenges faced by both learners and educators in multilingual environments. She is committed to supporting schools and students in overcoming EAL (English as an Additional Language) barriers. She believes that multilingualism empowers learners by broadening their opportunities and boosting their confidence.
A one-day workshop on sabre coaching led by Truro Fencing Club's head coach, Balázs Kurucz. This workshop will focus on how to create a competitive training environment for sabre fencers and look at exercises for individual lessons. It is suitable for coaches who are already used to giving individual lessons (minimum British Fencing Level 2 or equivalent). Balázs leads the sabre programme at Truro Fencing Club, developing fencers from as young as 6 years old through to Junior and Senior World Cup levels. He has a wealth of World level experience in sabre in Hungary, Singapore and Mexico, and joined Truro in the Autumn of 2012. Balázs has produced many top fencers including a Senior World Cup medallist and Junior World Championship Gold Medallist and many GB champions. Spaces for this workshop are available to coaches and fencers but the primary focus for the day will be to help the coaches develop. Fencers are welcome to attend to take part in any demonstration group activities and to take lessons from coaches.
This retreat is based on the teachings on Inner Fire or Tummo in the Tantric meditation manual ‘Clear Light of Bliss.’ In this book, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso reveals the profound practices of the ancient yogis and yoginis and makes their blissful experience accessible to the modern world.
The course will start by defining dignity and privacy within the healthcare sector, and will explain how the two are quite often linked. It will then go on to give you a range of useful professional tips about setting up the right working relationship with your service users, and discuss some of the issues that can arise when dignity and privacy are not respected.
This course explains, in brief, why fires occur and what actions you must take to help prevent them starting and the actions you must take when they do. By completing this course you will be making your workplace a safer environment. This course is a variation on the Basic Fire Awareness course that contains information that is specific to employees of care and residential homes.
This course covers some of the different ways of communication, how to identify barriers to communication and how to reduce these, making sure the person you are communicating with understands what you are communicating, how to get help with communication issues and much more.
This course will start by defining the various terms used when talking about nutrition and hydration in care environments, the basic elements of nutrition and eating a healthy balanced diet, identify the reasons why vulnerable people might suffer with dehydration and the tools you can use to identify people that are at risk of malnutrition and the steps you can take to deal with this condition.
This course explains the difference between mental health and mental illness. It covers the symptoms of a number of the most common mental illnesses so you will know what to look out for or what to expect if you are working with someone with one of these conditions. As well as providing some practical advice on how you can work effectively with those affected by these conditions.
This course describes in detail the many facets and procedures of the Mental Capacity Act. This includes who the act affects, when it applies, how to assess capacity and the procedures that can be put in place in the home or workplace to ensure best practices are followed and people are treated fairly at all times.