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- Regarding the future, if we are opening the symposium to external participants, would parents also be able to sign up to workshops? Giving the international character of our school, lots of parents might not be able to access local workshops about parenting, stimulating a child's development, etc. Perhaps this could be a good opportunity for the school to meet some of those needs through organising specific workshops for parents. For instance workshops about anxiety and stress management, brain development, stimulating a child's language development, how to approach multilingual language development, what is a speech and language delay, etc.

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Do you have any other positive CPD experience from elsewhere to share?

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Do you have any other positive CPD experience from elsewhere to share?

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- I have joined a 'forum' of European school nurses and we communicate and share knowledge via a group g mail account and e mail. School nursing in Europe is a very isolating occupation generally as the nurses are often alone or in a very small group at each school without any other members of a multi discipline team. It is often difficult to share ideas and knowledge with others. Sadly there is only one school among the group I know, that offers a formal course for CPD each year.
It may be that we need to think in the same way as the latest PL idea and invite other nurses in with a guest speaker?
- It would be nice to have the opportunity to follow specific training outside of BSB. In the past this type of request has been systematically rejected. We are clearly not a mainstream group at school and have to face the fact that, being a minority, our needs are not necessarily met during the global CPD days, in that case it would be nice to know that our needs for professional development are also understood and met.

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Would you be interested in sharing your knowledge and leading a session?

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Would you be interested in sharing your knowledge and leading a session?

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- Yes absolutely, the question is how to engage colleagues so that the knowledge sharing goes beyond a 25-minute session. We have the feeling that most of the school has no clue about what our job entails. There is also a lack of understanding about our level of expertise and we are systematically kept out of the teaching loop. If the content of our job was better known, we could provide more added value to the school (and feel more appreciated, obviously).
- In the future nurses will have to deliver yearly First aid awareness training for staff during PL days. In a way this is where nurses can contribute to teaching, but it would mean that they would be unable to attend any other sessions.
- Yes absolutely... but...when there are two of us, we discuss cases and shadow each other throughout the year, so one of us offering a workshop for the other one on a PL day does not have a lot of added value for each other.

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- Longer sessions
- Less choice so that the subject can be properly discussed.
- Some topics in Dutch.....particularly very important issues like child protection and emergency aid.
- Hands on workshops e.g. fire safety, 1st response

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- Finance: Feel like a lost day of work, they get behind
subjects are ok, interesting, but not useful for work
they feel stress that work is behind
- Finance: Have no time to do the basic, no need for learning
- Holidays cannot be booked at those times but can be actually be taken at other times of the year, not just school holidays. And these do not always coincide with Belgian schools.
- Was everyone following sessions, was there a control?
- Language issue for some groups (bus supervisors, maintenance) - don't speak English for instance
- OP staff should not be expected to do their work on PL days but LT has to enforce that idea, lead by example, include people in other things, people can't be asked to work in other things
- Have PL days off campus
- What does management/LT do - LT together, leadership?
- HR wKristin, and all together - finances, hr, campus ops, admissions, enrichment, counsellors +nurses
- Should not be expected to work!!!!
- Don't overkill of information
- Working as 'whole school' means we are a very small group of specialists who have specialist needs in terms of training.
- A downside, or "danger" of the new style, is that the school might no longer invite external specialists to run workshops or CPD days. I do not feel that the workshops on these PL days can fully replace external specialists, courses or conferences. CPD should be a balance between sharing knowledge amongst colleagues (to broaden your knowledge or give you fresh ideas/new techniques) and training sessions offered by an external specialist or an external organisation (for more advanced or complex training). We have to consider our own CPD needs (in terms of legal requirement that allows us to work, for instance) and for our knowledge and practice to be up to date. Management seemed to understand the importance of our CPD and agreed to help, to enable us to meet our legal requirements. It might mean that we have to search out relevant courses etc for ourselves, but they would help where possible to enable us to attend or bring the training to us.
- The PL days as they are currently organised, offer us the opportunity to share our expertise/knowledge with teachers, (which is great and  we are very happy to do this!) but it does not really offer us any CPD opportunities in our specific fields.

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What did you like about the ‘former style’ CPD days?

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What did you like about the ‘former style’ CPD days?

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- We didn't have to attend and were able to carry on with our identified roles.
- Relevant training (ie BD5 electrical regulations) were held throughout the year.
- Fire fighting training

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What did you like about the ‘new style’ PL days?

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What did you like about the ‘new style’ PL days?

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- The new style is more self-directed. Everybody can decide what workshop is most interesting to them, or most appropriate, and sign up for the workshops that are most tailored to their wishes/areas they wish to develop, rather than "one workshop/CPD fits all".
- It was nice to have some recognition for the talent already available at school, there was a lot of interest to present
- The former CPD days often did not 'include' our type of staff at all (ie most subjects were teaching/learning based). The new PL days don't do this specifically either, but we can at least select something of interest to us either personally or professionally.
- The new style PL days give you the flexibility to choose what you would like to attend - previously, we were told what we had to do and it was often not relevant to our role at all. The choice means we can plan the day and fill in gaps with prep work etc to suit us and our workload.
- Even if not specific for HR, they found it interesting
- A feeling of fairness
- Diversity and choice
- Being given the choice of what to attend, some workshops more directed towards their (maintenance team) roles in school.

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- Programming specific pieces of equipment used by the pupils,
- Machinery safety
- Finance: to develop skills with specific programmes they use
they need more concrete topics
- Finance request sessions with specific departments (e.g. admissions or new teams), they get wrong info because they didn't talk with finances; or they would like to have information about other departments
- Finance: Excel, but specific to their needs, and to their level, or Word, or other programmes - follow up on previous workshops; more IT related subjects; powerpoint
Procure is more specific, but also important
- More of the same from last year's sessions
- Chemical safety regulations,
- Electrical safety,
- Radioactive safety,
Machinery safety,
Reporting accidents/near misses,
-  Waste disposal (particularly chemical) all with the emphasis on Belgian law.
- Psychological tactics.....how to deal with pupils who are stressed/panicking and or self other staff
- Call coaches from other schools (e.g. Erin Marshall)
- Internal speakers (Olga and Beth very useful, voice, etc).
- Specific in sports: inspirational
- Communication with parents
- Mental preparation
- Psychologist
- Inspire athletes intrinsic motivation
- To enhance school life knowledge
- Would like to participate with other departments
- Team building: later, maybe they would moan
- There is a lack of understanding of what departments do
- 'poster presentation'
- Wouldn't wait for CPD for meetings with other people
- Role meeting
- Inclusion
- Brainstorm sessions
- ellness staying healthy....healthy diet etc....this could be shared with pupils at the right opportunity.

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– What did you like about the ‘new style’ PL days?
– What did you like about the ‘former style’ CPD days?
– Do you have any other positive CPD experience from elsewhere to share?
– Would you be interested in sharing your knowledge and doing a session or Teach Meet slot?
– What are your thoughts/expectations of the PLPs?