Welcome to Learn Sheffield

The third Annual General Meeting for Learn Sheffield will be held on Wednesday 27 February 2019 at 5.00pm at Learn Sheffield Training and Development Hub, Lees Hall Road, Sheffield, S8 9JP.

The latest Opportunities Bulletin (February 2019) has been emailed out to schools and published online. It contains opportunities for all sectors.

The latest in the research twilight series will take place on Tuesday 12 February. Stephen Foreman (Huntington Research School) will present 'What are the essential ingredients of effective implementation in schools?'.

Create Sheffield has been successful in securing significant funding from Arts Council England through its Partnership Investment Fund to support on-going strategic development over the next three years. The Programme Manager, working closely with the Directors of Create Sheffield, will be responsible for delivery of the proposed strategic work as part of this funding. The deadline for applications Monday 11th February at 9am.

This one day course will support teachers and leaders in schools to understand how memory works; how this understanding of memory can be applied to our teaching of effective study skills for exam success and the important role of sleep in memory. The course if part of this year's Research Led Sheffield programme in partnership with Huntington Research School.

Colleagues from the education sector are welcome to attend the Shaping Sheffield workshops, which are designed to help shape the local area plan and discuss the future of health and social care services in Sheffield.

Learn Sheffield moves into its second year of partnership with Huntington Research School as part of the 'Research Led Sheffield' strategy. The 2018/19 programme has been announced and includes a new programme of twilight information sessions.

A follow up article from our Chief Executive, Stephen Betts, taken from the Sheffield Telegraph. He makes the case that the government needs to find additional funding for education and it needs to use some of that additional funding to target areas which are not receiving a fair share currently.