BUDMOUTH College played host to teachers from schools across Dorset for the Chesil Education Partnership achievement show.

The day consisted of a selection of sessions, led by a mix of teachers and external professionals, designed to give the attending teachers new tips and techniques for the classroom.

These sessions were split up into eight different zones such as teaching and learning, future technologies and targeting needs.

This meant that many sessions overlapped and each attendee could pick and choose what they wanted to learn.

The sessions provided huge variety with choices ranging from ‘managing angry students and adults’ to ‘iPads in humanities’ to ‘girls just wanna have fun’.

Proving most popular were the sessions managing angry students by Barry Stay and Differentiation in the Classroom by Deborah Zachary.

Barry Stay’s session was based around looking at the physiology of anger, the triggers and stages of anger and finally the strategies in coping with anger.

Deborah Zachary’s session was based on what Ofsted look for and also looked at lesson planning and objectives.

Deborah’s session was aimed at differentiating and individualising lessons based around the different abilities within a class.

Many of the other sessions came from Budmouth’s own teachers, who were giving sessions on the concepts and ideas within Budmouth sixth form. Prue Bendell and Amanda Williamson hosted a shorter session on whether girls need to be taught differently.

This involved presenting their findings from girls within Budmouth and also looking at national differences among grade results. Trainee teachers who are completing their PGCEs also joined teachers who were attending the day.