Strategies from Alternative Education Conference 2018

The Forgotten Majority and the Invisible Minority:

Strategies from Alternative Education

Keynote: Summerhill Democratic School, Suffolk

Date: 11th July 2018

New Place Hotel, Shirrell Heath, Hampshire

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As a key priority for local authorities, strategic responses to inclusion and special educational needs have been the focus of a range of training and conference events in recent years. Despite this, relatively few cohesive curricula for delivery of education, care and support to children outside of mainstream settings currently exist. As a provider of alternative education, Releasing Potential works with young people who have been excluded from mainstream settings, and we have developed a Department-for-Education-approved curriculum for delivery through bespoke educational models.

Our Alternative Education Conference 2018 brings together a range of voices to consider practical approaches to improving delivery to young people in a range of alternative and mainstream education and care settings. Featuring workshops, case studies and training sessions, this event offers learning, development and networking opportunities for teachers, classroom assistants, inclusion leaders, social workers, SENCOs and other commissioners and providers of care and/or education. We hope to share challenges and best practice, and to create collaborative networks for supporting young people in a variety of contexts. We welcome delegates from education, children’s services and social care, the health sector, parents’ groups, charities and local government.

A draft programme of speakers can be found below:

09:00-09:30	Arrivals, registration and breakfast		Arden Suite
09:30-09:40	Welcome and introductions		Arden Suite
09:40- 10:45	Keynote 1 Henry Readhead (Summerhill Democratic School, Suffolk)	‘A.S. Neill’s Summerhill – The Original “Free School” – One Hundred Years On’	Arden Suite
11:00-12:15	A. Special Educational Needs ‘Communication – the Key to Success in SEN’	Zoe Berry & Emma Wicks (The Ashley Academy, Lowestoft)	Warwick Room
	B. Health & Wellbeing ‘Optimising Education – An Alternative Approach’	Nicholas Alp (The New Forest Small School)	Classroom 1
	C. Barriers to Engagement ‘Teaching Sexually Exploited Young People: Two Case Studies’	Tom Belcher & Ashleigh Stocks (Releasing Potential)	Classroom 2
12:15-13:30	A. Special Educational Needs ‘Engaging the New Generation: The 21st Century Child’	Dr Heather Green (University of Chichester)	Classroom 1
	B. Health & Well-Being ‘What Does Putting the Child First Actually Look Like in Education? Synthesising the Tensions’	Graeme Cooper (Common Thread Residential Care)	Classroom 2
	B. Health & Well-Being ‘ Emerging Risks and Alternative Approaches to Educating about Substance Misuse’	Julie Poling & Sarah Green (Catch 22)	Warwick Room
	C. Barriers to Engagement ‘A Relational Pedagogy: Re-Engaging Excluded Students with their Learning’	Dr Simon Edwards (University of Portsmouth)	Arden Suite
13:30-14:15	Lunch (Hot, sit-down meal)		Manor House
14:15-15:15	Keynote 2 Dr John Crosbie (Institute for Outdoor Learning/ University of Derby)	‘Inclusion and the Outdoors: Some Reflections’	Arden Suite
15:30- 16:45	A. Special Educational Needs ‘The ACE Model: A Healthy Curriculum’	Elizabeth Swan (Catch 22 Education – The Everitt Academy Trust)	Warwick Room
	D. Environment/ The Outdoors ‘The Activation Model’ (Title TBC)	Wayne Peters (Releasing Potential)	Classroom 1
	E. Technologies ‘Children Telling their Stories of Care and Adoption: Co-Designing a Technologically Enhanced Memory Box’	Dr Debbie Watson (University of Bristol)	Classroom 2
16:45-17:45	A. Special Educational Needs ‘At Risk of Permanent Exclusion: Social Pedagogy and Alternative Education’	Dr Kieron Hatton & Dr Catherine Brennan (University of Portsmouth)	Classroom 1
	D. Environment/The Outdoors ‘Can Social Enterprise Really Deliver Education and Training to Vulnerable Young People?’	Charlie Adie (Motiv8)	Arden Suite
	E. Technologies ‘Telling Better Stories: The Data Question in SEND Provision’	Niall Gray & Mike King (Huis Technologies / Releasing Potential)	Classroom 2
17:45-18:00	Closing remarks and goodbye

Early Bird tickets are available for just £45 until the 28th Feb 2018, £65 until the 1st June 2018, and £75 thereafter. Tickets are inclusive of breakfast on arrival and a hot sit-down lunch in the Manor House – book now to avoid disappointment!