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Supporting you to maximise the impact of
technology for learning

Provision 2015/16

About chrismayoh.com
The newly updated chrismayoh.com is the home of the consultancy services of Chris Mayoh, award-winning
educational technologist, international keynote speaker and independent consultant. Alongside a number of
strategic partners Chris works with schools, colleges and other organisations to inspire students, teachers and
senior leaders to embrace new technologies to revolutionise learning opportunities in and out of the classroom.
As well as providing expert consultancy, curriculum and technical support to schools in the UK and internationally,
Chris also works part time as Computing Leader at Fagley Primary School, Bradford. This allows Chris to ensure
the support he provides to other schools is based upon sound evidence of success in a current education setting;
he is not preaching theories, but spreading excellent practice.
Chris has previously been a Head of ICT and Student Leadership Coordinator at a large international school in
Russia, a Curriculum Innovation consultant for Bradford Local Authority, an ICT Coordinator and E-safety Leader
at primary, secondary and special schools and both a primary and secondary school governor.
This brochure outlines some of the ways chrismayoh.com can support you or your organisation.
To request more information or to make a booking visit: chrismayoh.com/contact

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Core Provision

chrismayoh.com
Supporting you to maximise the impact of
technology for learning

Core Provision
Digital Strategy Visits
A highly flexible and totally bespoke Digital Strategy Visit is a great way to ensure your school is maximising its
use of new technologies for learning. A Digital Strategy Visit could comprise:
Meetings with Senior Leaders, Curriculum Coordinators and Governors to explore ways of successfully
embedding the use of technology across school, avoiding unnecessary expenditure and ensuring a seamless
execution of the school's Digital Strategy
Coaching sessions with Computing Leaders, other Curriculum Coordinators and teachers to support with the
integration of technology in the classroom and building capacity for sustained improvement, and could involve
joint lesson observations and feedback sessions, strategic planning or curriculum planning
Mobile device project planning and implementation to ensure your school can successfully integrate new and
emerging mobile technologies across the curriculum, from practical management to ideas for day-to-day
classroom use, whether choosing iPads, Android Tablets, Windows Tablets, Chromebooks or other devices

Available Nationwide (Full Day - 495, Half Day 295)

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)
Whole School INSET
All Whole School INSET is totally bespoke and agreed with the school in advance of delivery to ensure maximum
impact. Whole School INSET could comprise:
Practical training on how to deliver the Computing Curriculum in an engaging way
Training sessions about how to use technology as a cross-curricular tool for learning
Workshops to help members of teaching and support staff to understand key e-safety issues such as Digital
Professionalism, Cyberbullying and Online Grooming in the world today
Sessions about successfully embedding a whole school e-safety strategy
Training about how to protect students from the dangers of radicalisation and extremism

Available Nationwide (Full Day - 495, Half Day 295,

Twilight 225, After School Staff Meeting 195)
(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)
Subscriber Discount and Priority Assistance
Schools signing up to a Bronze, Silver or Gold Digital Development Subscription Package automatically
receive a 10% Subscriber Discount on any future purchases (in the same academic year), as well as Priority
Assistance, which guarantees schools a response to all queries within 24 hours via their preferred contact
medium - email, phone or Twitter (during term time).

E-safety Audits
The issue of e-safety has long been a challenging one for schools and other organisations to tackle, particularly
considering that technology develops so rapidly and that children and young people have near universal access
to internet enabled devices.
E-safety Audits provide a great, cost-effective way to ensure primary schools, secondary schools and colleges
are doing all they can to protect pupils and members of staff from the risks associated with new technologies,
along with preparing for inspections by Ofsted, HMI or ISI.
E-safety Audits last one full day, take place in school and are conducted by an Auditor who has received a
Naace Impact Award for his work in the field of e-safety. "Chris has been formally recognised for revolutionising
opportunities for independent learning and for developing rigorous processes for e-safety training." Naace, 2013.
E-safety Audits include:
- A whole school policy and practice review
- An evaluation of the schools e-safety curriculum
- Group interviews with members of teaching, support and administrative staff
- One to one and group interviews with pupils
- A review of e-safety and cyberbullying monitoring and reporting procedures
- An evaluation of the impact of staff training
- A strategic support meeting with the schools ICT/Computing Coordinator, Safeguarding Officer or Senior
Leadership Team representative
- A full report including recommended actions for improvement

Available Nationwide - 525

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)

To book your E-safety Audit visit: chrismayoh.com/esafety

Digital Development
Subscriptions 2015/16
The most cost effective way to access support to improve a school's use of technology is to sign up for a
Digital Development Subscription package.
All support accessed through a Digital Development Subscription is fully bespoke and is negotiated with each
school or organisation in advance of delivery to ensure maximum impact on pupils and members of staff.
Three different levels of Digital Development Subscription are available:

- Bronze
- Silver
- Gold
Bronze Subscription
- 1 x Digital Strategy Visit (half day)
- 1 x After School INSET
- 10% Subscriber Discount on additional support purchased in 2015/16
- Priority Assistance via phone, email and Twitter

Available Nationwide - 445

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)

To book your Bronze Subscription visit: chrismayoh.com/subscriptions

Silver Subscription
- 2 x Digital Strategy Visits (half day each)
- 2 x After School INSET
- 1 x Full Day INSET
- 10% Subscriber Discount on additional support purchased in 2015/16
- Priority Assistance via phone, email and Twitter

Available Nationwide - 1325

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)

To book your Silver Subscription visit: chrismayoh.com/subscriptions

Gold Subscription
- 3 x Digital Strategy Visits (half day each)
- 2 x After School INSET
- 2 x Full Day INSET
- 1 x E-safety Audit
- 10% Subscriber Discount on additional support purchased in 2015/16
- Priority Assistance via phone, email and Twitter

Available Nationwide - 2495

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)

To book your Gold Subscription visit: chrismayoh.com/subscriptions

Technical Support
In addition to offering curriculum and strategic development support, chrismayoh.com now
offers a range of technical support options for schools through a range of partners.
All support is carried out by industry professionals with experience of improving schools'
hardware, software and infrastructure requirements.
Discounted Digital Strategy Visits and Whole School INSET are available for schools choosing
to access technical support through chrismayoh.com

Technical Support Services:

- Annual ICT Support Contracts
- SIMS Support
- Remote Backup
- Networking and Wireless Installation
- Hardware Procurement and Installation
- Server Support
- Software Licensing
- Website and VLE Support

Available in the North West and

Yorkshire and the Humber
To find out more visit: chrismayoh.com/contact

Impact Projects

chrismayoh.com
Supporting you to maximise the impact of
technology for learning

Digital Leaders Programme

What is the Digital Leaders Programme?
The Digital Leaders Programme is a world renowned pupil leadership initiative that has a proven impact on pupils
and teachers. Digital Leaders are pupils who are given responsibility for helping adults to improve and embed the
use of technology for learning throughout schools. Through a comprehensive training programme Digital Leaders
quickly become invaluable members of any school community.
What do Digital Leaders do?
- Meet regularly to learn new skills and explore different hardware and software
- Support other pupils to use technology in class
- Teach members of staff how to use new technologies effectively in the classroom
- Run assemblies, workshops and drop in sessions to raise the profile of technology across school
- Lead sessions for other pupils on important issues such as e-safety
- Attend events with other technology leaders to share their ideas and to learn from others
What support is available?
Digital Leaders Programme for Primary Schools
Digital Leaders Programme for Secondary Schools
Bespoke Digital Leaders Programmes to suit 'all through' schools, local clusters and TSAs

Available Nationwide
To find out more or to book a place on a
Digital Leaders Programme visit: chrismayoh.com/digitalleaders

Digital Leaders Programme

for Primary Schools
The Digital Leaders Programme for Primary Schools offers teachers and pupils a great degree of support,
as schools participate as part of a small, local cluster.
Teachers and pupils from the schools within each cluster attend events jointly, allowing many opportunities
for sharing ideas and experiences, presenting information to a real audience and collaborating with people
in the real world.
Term 1
- Initial training and planning meeting for the lead teacher(s) - half day
- Initial training for new pupil Digital Leaders - half day
Term 2
- Follow up training for pupil Digital Leaders - half day
- Off site event for pupil Digital Leaders (working with industry/applying skills in the real world) - full day
Term 3
- KidsMeet 'conference' for pupil Digital Leaders to celebrate and share their successes - full day
Ongoing
- Access to three-weekly Digital Leader Challenges
- Access to a collaborative blog for teachers and pupil Digital Leaders
- Full email, phone and Twitter support for the lead teacher(s)

Available Nationwide - 375 per school

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)
(N.B. a minimum number of four schools per cluster is required for the Programme to run)

To find out more or to book a place on the Digital Leaders Programme for
Primary Schools visit: chrismayoh.com/digitalleaders

Digital Leaders Programme

for Secondary Schools

The Digital Leaders Programme for Secondary Schools allows a great degree of flexible support for both
teachers and students, with the Programme being specifically tailored to the needs of the individual school.
The focus of the Digital Leaders Programme is entirely at the discretion of the school, as all training and
support is bespoke, but could include:
- Supporting the integration of mobile devices (e.g. iPads) across the curriculum;
- Developing the use of the VLE, school website or blogging platforms;
- Supporting the transition to the new Computing curriculum.
Term 1
- Initial training and planning meeting for the lead teacher(s) - half day
- Initial training for new student Digital Leaders - half day
Term 2
- Planning and evaluation meeting with the lead teacher(s) - half day
- Off site event for student Digital Leaders (working with industry/applying skills in the real world) - full day
Term 3
- Planning and evaluation meeting with the lead teacher(s) - half day
- End of year skills sharing and evaluation event for student Digital Leaders - full day
Ongoing
- Access to a collaborative blog for teachers and student Digital Leaders
- Full email, phone and Twitter support for the lead teacher(s)

Available Nationwide - 1895

(plus expenses for schools outside Greater Manchester)

To find out more or to book a place on the Digital Leaders Programme for
Secondary Schools visit: chrismayoh.com/digitalleaders

Night Zookeeper
The World's Number 1 Writing Improvement Tool

"My students were able to make a

year's worth of progress with their
writing in one term, as a result of
their involvement with and
enthusiasm for Night Zookeeper"
- Emma Cotton, Class Teacher,
Langham Village Primary School

Night Zookeeeper is a beautiful digital platform dedicated

to supporting children to become better, more
creative writers.
Children are encouraged to write at school and at home as
they battle through a series of adventures in the Night Zoo,
collecting Mystical Animals and defeating monsters on their
travels.
Teachers can assign writing challenges or simply allow
children to write freely across a wide range of text types, all
of which are easy to assess against English National
Curriculum objectives with the Online Assessment Toolkit.

Write
The writing tool suggests age appropriate vocabulary for children to include in their stories. It also provides objectives
and helpful tips in order to provide structure to their creative writing.

Assess
All writing produced by your
students appears in your Online
Assessment Toolkit. This tool
allows you to send comments to
your students and assess
against National Curriculum
objectives.

To find out more or to set up your FREE trial visit:

nightzookeeper.com
or contact me at chrismayoh.com/contact

Compete
Students are motivated to raise
their writing levels, as they
compete in exciting Writing
Leagues. You can join multiple
leagues throughout the
year. There is also a full calendar
of exciting competitions.

"I had a look at the

website and it is a
wonderful piece of
enterprise"
- Sir Quentin Blake

100 Word Challenge

Working in partnership with Night Zookeeper
100 Word Challenge is a FREE creative writing challenge for
children, which harnesses the power of the Night Zookeeper
writing platform.
Each week, retired Headteacher Julia Skinner posts an
interesting writing prompt to ignite children's curiosity and to
inspire them to write creative responses. The prompt could be
an image, a sentence or just a few words.
Children are challenged to submit their written responses in
just 100 words.
A group of adults, known as Team 100WC, provide
constructive feedback on their writing each week, so there is
ongoing motivation for them to write for their truly global
audience.

To find out more or to sign up for FREE visit: 100wc.net

or contact me at chrismayoh.com/contact

Courses and Events

chrismayoh.com
Supporting you to maximise the impact of
technology for learning

TeachMeet The Study @ Manchester Museum is a FREE informal CPD event for all adults interested in
education, regardless of subject specialism or Key Stage; everyone is welcome to attend. Come along to deliver
a 10-minute workshop or presentation on a topic of your choice, or simply attend to be inspired by others ideas.
Make: practical demos - the positive effects of hands on learning
Share: topics that lend themselves to whole school learning
Wonder: moments that make you think
Discover: new ways to capture the imagination of children and young people
As well as a range of presentations on a number of education topics, there will also be FREE food and drink to
keep you going throughout the evening.

Manchester - Thursday 17th September 2015

4.00-8.45pm
To find out more or to book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/TMTheStudy

TeachMeet Rochdale is a FREE informal CPD event for all adults interested in education, regardless of subject
specialism or Key Stage; everyone is welcome to attend. Come along to deliver either a 5 minute or 2 minute
presentation on a topic of your choice, or simply to be inspired by others ideas.
As well as a range of presentations on a number of education topics, there will also be FREE food and drink to
keep you going throughout the evening.

Rochdale - Tuesday 6th October 2015

4.00-7.00pm
To find out more or to book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/TMRochdale

Practical Pedagogies 2015

Digital Leaders: Harnessing the power of students and technology
Practical Pedagogies 2015 is a high impact training conference for classroom teachers by classroom teachers. It
takes place over two days and features inspiring keynotes, over 70 workshops covering all curricululm areas and a
number of networking activities.
Featuring workshop
Digital Leaders: Harnessing the power of students and technology
This workshop will support Computing subject leaders and those responsible for student leadership in primary and
secondary schools to better understand how to deploy students in the important role of Digital Leader.
Delegates will learn how to successfully implement a Digital Leaders project, from initial conception, to its launch
and day-to-day running, from a course tutor who has been responsible for introducing over 85 schools to student
Digital Leadership in Key Stages 1 to 5.

Toulouse, France
Thursday 15th October & Friday 16th October 2016
To see the full conference programme and
to book your place visit:
chrismayoh.com/practicalpedagogies

TeachMeet Manchester NFM is a FREE informal CPD event for all adults interested in education, regardless of
subject specialism or Key Stage; everyone is welcome to attend. Come along to deliver either a 7 minute or 3
minute presentation on a topic of your choice, or simply to be inspired by others ideas.
As well as a range of presentations on a number of education topics, there will also be a selection of FREE
alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in the venues on site bar from 4.00-8.00pm. Nibbles will also be available
throughout the evening.
N.B. The event is suitable for football fans and non-football fans alike. There will be an optional Penalty Shootout
competition at some point during the evening, with the winner bagging one of the evenings raffle prizes.

Manchester - Wednesday 25th November 2015

4.00-8.00pm
To find out more or to book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/TMManchesterNFM

Media Literacy
Improving reading and writing through innovative use of
film in the primary classroom
This full day CPD event will support senior leaders, English/Literacy Coordinators and primary school class
teachers to improve the reading and writing skills of their pupils by harnessing the power of using film in the
classroom.
Delegates will learn how to best use visual texts to help children to master complex skills such as inference and
deduction to support their understanding of key places, characters and events, by analysing still and moving
images, sound and through exploration of professional film techniques.
The course will provide many hands on opportunities for delegates to engage with sample materials and to take
part in activities to support the teaching of reading and writing, including a specific focus on spelling,
punctuation, grammar and improving childrens vocabulary.

Course content
1. Developing imagination, vocabulary and broadening experiences through the use of high quality film
2. Books vs. films comparing and contrasting media and learning how to read films
2. Selecting the right films for your pupils introducing a wide range of resources
3. Cs and Ss understanding and analysing the building blocks of film and visual texts
4. Developing deduction and inference skills the place of books vs. other media
5. Using film to develop spelling, punctuation and grammar
6. Hands on planning how to make it all happen in your classroom

Manchester - Tuesday 24th November

London - Thursday 3rd December
To book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/medialiteracy
To find out more about the course presenter visit: chrismayoh.com

Maximising the Impact of

Pupil Digital Leaders

This course will support Computing subject leaders and those responsible for student leadership in primary and
secondary schools to better understand how to deploy students in the important role of Digital Leader.
Delegates will learn how to successfully implement a Digital Leaders project, from initial conception, to its launch
and day-to-day running, from a course tutor who has been responsible for introducing over 85 schools to student
Digital Leadership in Key Stages 1 to 5.

Course content
1. Understanding the role of a Digital Leader
2. Top tips for recruiting: from launch to appointment
3. How Digital Leaders can support learning in the classroom
4. Practical tips for day-to-day project management
5. Ensuring the sustainability of the project
6. Measuring the impact: research and case studies
7. Question and answer session: what do you still want to know?

Online - Thursday 28th January 2016

4.00-6.00pm
To book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/digitalleaders
To find out more about the course presenter visit: chrismayoh.com

How to Teach Computer Science

at KS1 and KS2

This is a new twilight online CPD event. The online event will support Computing Leaders and class teachers to
understand how to better teach the computer science strand of the new Computing curriculum across Key
Stages 1 and 2.
Delegates will learn how to deliver the new National Curriculum in an engaging and exciting way by harnessing
the use of new technologies in all areas of the curriculum using a variety of devices and online tools.

Course content
1. Understanding the expectations in new Computing curriculum
2. What is KS1 computer science and how you should teach it?
3. What is KS2 computer science and how should you teach it?
4. Resources to support the delivery of computer science
5. Computer science and able, gifted and talented pupils
6. Question and answer session: what do you still want to know?

Online - Tuesday 23rd February 2016

4.00-6.00pm
To book your place visit: chrismayoh.com/computerscience
To find out more about the course presenter visit: chrismayoh.com