Summer term | 26 May 2023
DSLS Summer Leadership Briefing
28 June 2023 - The Forge, Winslade Manor, Exeter, EX5 1FY
Online Bookings are are open for the DSLS Summer School Leadership Briefing on Wednesday 28 June 2023.
We are delighted to announce we will be welcoming Mary Myatt as a Keynote Speaker at the Summer Briefing.
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Mary Myatt
Education adviser, writer and speaker
Mary curates Myatt & Co where she works with colleagues to develop thoughtful work on the curriculum and wider school improvement. She trained as an RE teacher and is a former local authority adviser and inspector. Drawing on her work with pupils, teachers and leaders she writes and speaks about learning, leadership and the curriculum.
She has worked in small schools, for large trusts, national and international organisations. Her education philosophy is underpinned by several principles: that all children deserve rich demanding work, that high quality talk underpins learning, that human beings are curious and that they find deep work very satisfying.
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Mary's visit to Devon is very timely as it coincides with the launch of her new book, SEND Huh, written with John Tomsett.
Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration. He is the deity Mary Myatt and John Tomsett have adopted as their god of the curriculum. Their Huh series of books focuses on how practitioners design the curriculum for the young people in their schools.
The Huh project is founded on conversations with colleagues doing great work across the education sector. In SEND Huh, Mary Myatt and John Tomsett discuss curriculum provision for pupils with additional needs with some of the leading experts in the field.
Mary and John interviewed pupils, parents, teachers, headteachers, CEOs, educational consultants and lecturers. They then edited the transcriptions of those interviews to provide an ambitious, thoughtful, nuanced and challenging vision of what the best possible provision looks like for children with additional learning needs.
The challenging conversations that comprise SEND Huh paint an inspiring picture that is hugely hopeful for the future of SEND curriculum provision in our schools.
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 The Briefing will also feature updates from Donna Manson - Chief Executive, DCC and Rachel Shaw - Interim Head of Education (Delivery), Devon County Council.
In addition, there will be a session on how Ofsted consider SEND as a part of the Inspection process as well as the usual updates from the DSLS team.
We do hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be an informative and inspiring day at the new venue at Winslade Manor.
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