Young People and Mental Health - 1 day workshop

Barriers to learning: Identifying and supporting pupils with mental health difficulties

Date: 27 June 2013
Times: 10:00 - 15:30
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

The conference is particularly relevant to the work of secondary school teachers, support staff, counsellors and mental health professionals.

Aim: To promote better and faster identification of student difficulties and understanding of how to negotiate patterns of support.

Preparing Your Dissertation Towards Publication

Dates: TBC
Venue: Chelmsford Campus
Time: all day
Costs: TBC
For more information or to book: Contact Emma Fawcett on emma.fawcett@anglia.ac.uk or 0845 196 4355

One day publication workshop including:

• Identifying publishing opportunities
• Mentored writing sessions
• Specialist and customised individual library session

Group sizes will be small to ensure personal support from our experienced and published academics. We already have interest in a social sciences/ professional development /education group, and can add others as needed.

MFL Summer School

Dates: 29 July - 2 August 2013
Venue: Chelmsford campus
Time: Full time for 5 days
Cost: £550
How to book: contact Emma Fawcett on emma.fawcett@anglia.ac.uk or 0845 196 4355

Primary PGCE Graduates- Compulsory foreign languages at KS2 from September 2014 - are you ready?

According to CfBT Education Trust research published in March 2013, 1 in 10 primary schools believe they are unlikely to be able to deliver on the Government's pledge to make learning a language compulsory for all seven-year-olds from next year.

Anglia Ruskin University is pleased to offer courses in teaching French, German and Spanish languages, aimed at KS2 teachers.

Through these quality and focused courses, participants will:

• Develop increased levels of knowledge, skills and understanding of their chosen language
• Be able to effectively develop pupils' language learning at KS2
• Develop practical strategies, hints and tips to prepare for the unique challenges of language teaching

One day Computing at School workshops

Senior Lecturer Sue Sentance will be leading a series of computing at schools workshops about different subjects in June and July. Please click on the links below to find out more information about each of the workshops.

Wednesday 5th June (Introductory) Introduction to Python programming
Wednesday12th June (Intermediate) Programming a database in Python/understanding SQL
Wednesday 19th June (Intermediate) HTML and CGI Scripting - dynamic web programming in Python
Friday 28th June (Advanced) Programming server-side databases (Python and MySQL)
Friday 5th July (Advanced) Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in Python
Friday 12th July(Advanced) Developing a user interface using PyQT
Wednesday 17th July (Advanced) Algorithms and data structures with Python

Teaching Computing to GCSE level with Python

This course is for ICT teachers who would like to prepare to teach GCSE Computing or Computer Science. It covers the theory you would need to teach at GCSE as well as Python programming.

Venue: Saffron Walden County High School
Dates: 23rd April - 18th June (8 weeks)
Time: 5pm - 7.30pm
Cost: £170.25

To book, and for more details, visit Eventbrite.

CAS/NOE Teaching Computing to KS3

This course is for ICT teachers who would like to prepare to teach Computing at Key Stage 3, in preparation for the new National Curriculum. It covers programming in Scratch and Kodu, some simple programming in Python, and a range of theory topics including binary and how the computer works.

The course is 8 weeks long (excludes half-term) and runs for 2 hours on a Tuesday evening. This course is based on the Computing At School curriculum at KS3 and leads into our Teaching Computing at GCSE Level with Python.

Venue: Anglia Ruskin University
Dates: 23rd April - 18th June (8 weeks)
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Cost: £133.15

To book, and for more details, visit Eventbrite.

Arts and Wellbeing Seminar Series

There is a growing body of evidence that active involvement in creative activities provides a wide range of benefits, including the promotion of wellbeing, quality of life, health and social capital. This short series of seminars will present research evidence from academics and practitioners from across different disciplines currently working in the field of arts and wellbeing.

The seminars are open to all and will be of particular interest to those working in Music and the Arts, Mental Health, Social Work and Education.

Tuesday 20th November 1-2pm Rivermead: MAB 008
Hilary Bungay, Senior Lecturer, Interprofessional Learning Programme, Anglia Ruskin University: Researching arts and health: some methodological issues

Tuesday 4th December 1-2pm Rivermead: MAB 008
Kerrie Margrove, Research Fellow in Mental Health, Anglia Ruskin University: They never asked about my mental health: Developments in arts and health research at Anglia Ruskin University & the South Essex Partnership Trust