38th COBIS Annual Conference Programme
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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2019<br />
Oxford University Press<br />
Stand no: 30<br />
Address: Great Clarendon Street,<br />
Oxford, OX2 6DP, UK<br />
Contact Name: Charlotte Hayes<br />
Email: charlotte.hayes@oup.com<br />
Website: www.globaloup.com<br />
As part of one of the world’s great universities, we’re driven by<br />
a deep conviction that learning enriches lives. This shows in<br />
everything we do across a vast range of learning resources and<br />
educational support, developed to inspire every learner to achieve<br />
their very best. We’re committed to international education and<br />
we’ve been publishing comprehensive print and digital resources<br />
for a range of British and international curricula for over 100 years.<br />
Whether it’s our work in cooperation with the IB or the development<br />
of materials that are fully matched to Oxford International AQA<br />
Examinations and Cambridge Assessment International Education<br />
specifications, Oxford is leading the way.<br />
Pearson<br />
Stand no: 90<br />
Address: 80 Strand, London,<br />
WC2R 0RL, UK<br />
Contact Name: Joanna Borysiak<br />
Email: globalschools@pearson.com<br />
Website: www.pearsonglobalschools.com<br />
Pearson is the world’s leading learning company and the UK’s largest<br />
awarding body. Our international education heritage stretches back<br />
over 150 years. Today, Pearson partners with schools, colleges and<br />
employers globally to offer qualifications to over 3.4 million students<br />
a year. As the UK’s largest awarding organisation, Pearson Edexcel<br />
are best placed to provide international qualifications (International<br />
GCSE and International A Level) that are recognised as being most<br />
closely aligned with the British educational system. Working with<br />
international schools worldwide, we have created a complete,<br />
integrated teaching and learning experience, to help you realise the<br />
full potential of your school and students, whatever your choice of<br />
curriculum.<br />
Penta International<br />
Stand no: 57<br />
Address: Upperton House,<br />
The Avenue, Eastbourne, BN21 3YB, UK<br />
Contact Name: Dr Mark Evans<br />
Email: mark@penta.co.uk<br />
Website: www.penta.co.uk<br />
Penta International is one of the UK’s premier independent providers<br />
of management consultancy, educational monitoring, training,<br />
coaching and inspection services. Based in the UK, but with offices<br />
in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires, we support<br />
schools and colleges around the world. We train school leaders to<br />
be school inspectors. We have new training courses this year on<br />
Child Protection and Mental Health, High-Quality Arabic language<br />
teaching and Self-evaluation and Monitoring in schools. The<br />
company has a reputation for the highest quality work, combined<br />
with a personal approach. See our website for further information<br />
about Penta International.<br />
Piota School Apps<br />
Stand no: 124<br />
Address: 7 Barnsbury Street,<br />
London, N1 1PW, UK<br />
Contact Name: James Dickson<br />
Email: jdickson@piota.co.uk<br />
Website: www.piota.co.uk<br />
Piota supply high-quality, customised mobile apps to schools to<br />
enable more effective communication with parents and pupils. Your<br />
app brings together school information, contact details, news with<br />
social media integration, events calendar, notifications, feedback<br />
forms and more in a central, easily accessible hub on parents’<br />
phones, ready for immediate reference when they need it. Improve<br />
communication and engagement with parents, save internal time<br />
and cost, discover a new way to sample and evidence parental and<br />
student opinion, and project a progressive image for your school.<br />
Get in touch today for a free trial.<br />
Pobble<br />
Stand no: 97<br />
Address: 42–43 Gloucester Crescent,<br />
London, NW1 7PE, UK<br />
Contact Name: Jon Smith<br />
Email: jon@pobble.com<br />
Website: www.pobble.com<br />
Pobble is an approach to teaching writing used by tens of thousands<br />
of teachers each day to find the best teaching resources, give<br />
pupils a global audience for their work, and to improve assessment<br />
reliability. Pobble won the 2018 BETT Award ‘Best Classroom Aid<br />
for Learning, Teaching and Assessment’. Today, Pobble is used by<br />
schools all over the world to inspire young writers and make life<br />
easier for their teachers. Pobble increases pupil writing fluency by<br />
15% and saves teachers 20% of their lesson planning time, as shown<br />
in a recent three-month UCL study involving 1000 pupils and 400<br />
teachers.<br />
Pupil and<br />
School Support<br />
Stand no: 113<br />
Address: Vauxhall Gardens,<br />
Barrack St, Birmingham, B7 4HA, UK<br />
Contact Name: Heather Wood<br />
Email: Heather.Wood@birmingham.gov.uk<br />
Website: accesstoeducation.birmingham.gov.uk<br />
Pupil and School Support work with schools and other educational<br />
settings to help children and young people with cognition and<br />
learning difficulties progress and achieve to the best of their abilities.<br />
We support schools with:<br />
• The development of strategic leaders of inclusion enabling<br />
whole school improvement<br />
• Increasing staff capacity in supporting pupils with SEND<br />
• The promotion of inclusive provision and practice, setting<br />
aspirational targets and raising attainment<br />
• Early identification of need and evidence-based intervention<br />
• The implementation of initiatives, policy and statutory<br />
procedures<br />
• Delivery of Continuing Professional Development including<br />
online training<br />
• Whole school training and development around EAL learners<br />
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