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CONFERENCES
Each year, NAHHT Members, guests and
specially invited speakers meet up to share their knowledge
and experiences.
The latest Conference Report
is below, together with links to all of the
presentations, and any other documents or websites that we think might
be of interest. If you cannot find what you want, or if you
can suggest any other information that might be of interest to our
colleagues and friends, please contact The Secretary.
Links to previous
conferences can be found at the
foot of this page.
2009 Conference
Back on Track: Stay on Track
Taking the opportunities and rising to the challenges
This year’s
conference was held in Bristol
in the South West of the country. Disappointingly, we had
fewer delegates than previous years but knew that some people found the
travelling too much, some were at the PRU conference and some had
budget restrictions placed on their training. However, the evaluations
show overwhelmingly how much the conference is valued not only as a
training opportunity, but also as a chance to network with other
colleagues doing the same job.
We have received some very encouraging
feedback from our delegates, together with many ideas for our next
conference. Please take a look at the Comments,
and if you have any ideas for topics to be included next year, please
let The Secretary know.
The conference opened with Dr Esther
Crawley, who gave us an inspiring talk on her work and research with
children and young people with CFS/ME. Lots of sound
practical advice with some new ideas to take home and use made this one
of the most highly rated keynote speakers from recent years.
Esther has kindly agreed to us having her presentation.
It is a large document, therefore it is split into two sections:
CFS Presnetation Part 1
CFS Presentation Part 2
 Susan
Morris King is one of our link HMI and she spoke on ‘Back on
track – stay on track. Taking the opportunities and rising to
the challenges’.
She updated us on the expectations and vision for the 21st Century
school and from the Back on Track document and challenged us to rise to
the new legislation within our settings. For some, it was
affirmation that we are on the right track, and for others, something
to go back and put into their improvement plans!
Link
to Susan’s Power Point
After lunch, delegates had a choice of 6 workshops: Cognitive
behavioural therapy, eating disorders, pastoral care for pupils with
cancer, science without a lab, manager's discussion forum, community
cohesion discussion, anxiety and autistic spectrum disorder.
Pastoral
care for pupils with cancer
This workshop was run by Bette Peterson-Broyd who is the Lead Teacher
of Hospital Education in Sutton for The Royal Marsden Hospital and
Queen Mary’s Hospital at St Helier. As well as teaching on the wards
and providing outreach support to schools, Bette has been working as
principal researcher on studies into how best to support the education
of young patients treated for brain tumours or cancers.
She outlined the principles of good practice around working with
children and young people with cancer and how to encourage schools to
better support their return to education.
She has recently published the excellent booklet ‘Pupils with Cancer – A Guide for
Teachers’ which can be downloaded at www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/teachersguide
Science
without a lab
This workshop was run by Keith Gibbs who was a physics teacher in
school for many years. He was inspired to start his website www.schoolphysics.co.uk
when confronted by a young person who told him that all physics was
boring, so this is his way of proving its not! If his
workshop is anything to go by, it certainly is not!
Keith showed us a variety of experiments that could be carried our
using everyday materials but which proved with spectacular effect the
principles of physics.
From his website, you can access his physics animations examples and
purchase a CD rom of 100 animations covering a wide range of topics for
11-19 year olds explaining the physics principles. He also
produces a book called ‘The resourceful Physics Teacher’ with
accompanying CD rom. Keith did say that he would offer a
discount to people from NAHHT ….. certainly worth a discussion with him.
Why not contact him for more details at keithagibbs@schoolphysics.co.uk
Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) is an approach to help people
experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties. The
basis of CBT is that what people think affects how they feel
emotionally and also alters what they do. During times of mental
distress, the way the person sees and judges themselves and the things
that happen to them alters. Things tend to become more
extreme and unhelpful. This can worsen how the person feels
and causes them to act in ways that keeps their distress going.
This workshop outlined the principles behind CBT and how it can be used
to support young people with mental health difficulties.
Link to
CBT Power Point
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and sometimes we have to say Thank You and Goodbye
Well, perhaps not goodbye, but certainly a big Thank You!
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