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Name: FREE! Access for All: Digital Tools for Inclusive Exam Success with Carrie-Ann from Everway – October 2025
Start: 2025-10-10T09:00:00+04:00
End: 2025-10-10T11:00:00+04:00
Location: Louise Dawson Professional and Management Development

August 2025
FREE Webinar! Widgit Wednesday – What Do You Want To Know 6 August ’25

6 August, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

For over 40 years Widgit Symbols have been used worldwide to support people and help them realise their full potential, no matter what their age, ability or background.

🆓 Join us on the first Wednesday of every month at 12pm GMT for a relaxed live session with Becca, our Symbol & Education Specialist!

🌟 These sessions are ideal if you do not have Widgit yet but want to see what it’s all about.

✨ Becca from Widgit will walk you through the software, answer your questions, and show you how Widgit can make a real difference in the classroom.

🖥️ Book your ticket for this session online now!
FREE! ReadSpeaker activities for UAE Induction Week, August 2025

18 August, 2025 - 22 August, 2025

🆓A week of FREE ReadSpeaker sessions designed to help educators build more inclusive, engaging, and accessible classrooms through audio. 🆓

✨Each session will explore practical ways to support diverse learners using:

👉🏻 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles
👉🏻 Text-to-speech technology, and
👉🏻 Inclusive STEM strategies.

Ideal for schools looking to create equitable learning environments and better support multilingual students.

📌All sessions are free and are available on demand.

✨✨ Sessions ✨✨

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to create inclusive learning environments
🔊 Discover the UDL framework, its three guiding principles, and how assistive technologies like text-to-speech can support accessibility and equity in your classroom.

🗣️ The benefits of text to speech for multilingual learners
🔊 Explore how TTS helps learners access content in their own language, build confidence, and stay engaged—particularly in multilingual classrooms.

🧪 Delivering a compelling and accessible STEM experience
🔊 Uncover strategies for making STEM content more accessible through audio and multimodal design.
September 2025
FREE Webinar! Widgit Wednesday – What Do You Want To Know 3 September ’25

3 September, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

For over 40 years Widgit Symbols have been used worldwide to support people and help them realise their full potential, no matter what their age, ability or background.

🆓 Join us on the first Wednesday of every month at 12pm GMT for a relaxed live session with Becca, our Symbol & Education Specialist!

🌟 These sessions are ideal if you do not have Widgit yet but want to see what it’s all about.

✨ Becca from Widgit will walk you through the software, answer your questions, and show you how Widgit can make a real difference in the classroom.

🖥️ Book your ticket for this session online now!
FREE! Literacy Webinar – Sizzling Starts: The easiest way to improve students’ writing – 10 September ’25

10 September, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

🆓 Sizzling Starts: The easiest way to improve students’ writing 🆓

🎞️ What do Mission Impossible films, a convincing TED Talk and David Attenborough documentaries all do that makes them loved the world over?

🌟 They all begin with a white-hot Sizzling Start that hooks the audience.

🤩 In this fun hands-on masterclass, learn the simple secrets to Sizzling Starts and how they can delight, intrigue and seize the reader’s attention from the get-go.

⏱️ Experience our popular Five Minute Fast Starts activity first-hand – designed to get students thinking and writing creatively like never before.
FREE Webinar! Unlocking Exam Success Through Inclusion with Everway – September 2025

17 September, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

🆓 Unlocking Exam Success Through Inclusion with Everway

Join Laura and Alan for a 30 minute live webinar

📅 Wednesday 17th September 2025
⏰ 7:00pm UAE/GST (4pm UK)

Discover how Read&Write and ExamWritePad can support every stage of learning – from revision and study through to use during exams.

You’ll leave with a clear understanding of how Everway empowers learners.

Part of our HITT (High Intensity Teacher Training) Series, this session gives teachers practical tools to build student independence and provide access to resources in one place.

🖥️ Book your ticket to receive your webinar link by email. Join live or watch back at a time that suits you.
FREE! Mighty Writer CPD webinar “New DfE Writing Framework – What You Need to Know”

18 September, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Virtual Event

The DfE has published its first ever national Writing Framework, promoting consistent, evidence-informed writing practice for Reception, KS1 and KS2.

The session will include 30-minutes of discussion and a 15-minute Q&A and will:

✏️ Explore the new Writing Framework and what it means for your classroom practice.

✏️ Unpack the key messages and discuss ways in which the framework can help to provide clarity and consistency

🔊 Speaker: Emma Ralph, Founder, Mighty Writer.

The session will be recorded and the recording will be shared to all those who register.
FREE! Literacy Webinar – The Reading–Writing Connection – 25 September ’25

25 September, 2025 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Webinar - FREE

Virtual Event

🆓 The Reading–Writing Connection 🆓

During this FREE webinar from Seven Steps, proudly supported by GEST Consultancy you will learn how to:

✏ Help students read like a writer and write like a reader
✏ Improve students’ reading comprehension skills
✏ Make students’ writing stronger and richer
✏ Boost student creativity and literacy skills.
October 2025
FREE Webinar! Widgit Wednesday – What Do You Want To Know 1 October ’25

1 October, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Virtual Event

For over 40 years Widgit Symbols have been used worldwide to support people and help them realise their full potential, no matter what their age, ability or background.

🆓 Join us on the first Wednesday of every month at 12pm GMT for a relaxed live session with Becca, our Symbol & Education Specialist!

🌟 These sessions are ideal if you do not have Widgit yet but want to see what it’s all about.

✨ Becca from Widgit will walk you through the software, answer your questions, and show you how Widgit can make a real difference in the classroom.

🖥️ Book your ticket for this session online now!
FREE! Mighty Writer CPD webinar “The Power of Talk: Raising Attainment Through Oracy” 6th October 2025

6 October, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Virtual Event

Oracy isn't 'just talk', it's the backbone of thinking, learning and ultimately attainment.
📈 Children who can articulate their ideas clearly often achieve better across the curriculum.

🔗 There are proven links between spoken language, cognitive development, and writing.
📰 Research evidence shows higher levels of attainment where oracy is prioritised.
🗣️ Embedding purposeful talk daily transforms progress in writing, reading, and beyond.

This webinar gives you practical classroom strategies to
- Make oracy a priority
- Impact writing outcomes, and
- Prepare children as lifelong learners.

Register to learn more.
FREE Webinar! Everything SENCo/HOIs should know about SALT and OT Therapy partnerships, October ’25

9 October, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Virtual Event

🖥 Title: 'Everything SENCo/HOIs should know about SALT and OT Therapy partnerships'
🗓 Date: October 9, 2025 Thursday
🕒 Time: 3:00 PM (UAE / GST)
🔗 Register: LouiseDawson.Com/Events

Join us for a FREE webinar with Keira from Sunshine Therapy.

We will be talking about the many ways that inclusion teams and students can be supported by therapists in schools, beyond just the typical 1:1 therapy sessions.

Hear insights from professionals, therapists and inclusion leaders as well at the opportunity for Q&A.

Free
FREE! Mighty Writer CPD webinar “New DfE Writing Framework – What You Need to Know”

9 October, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm

Virtual Event

The DfE has published its first ever national Writing Framework, promoting consistent, evidence-informed writing practice for Reception, KS1 and KS2.

The session will include 30-minutes of discussion and a 15-minute Q&A and will:

✏️ Explore the new Writing Framework and what it means for your classroom practice.

✏️ Unpack the key messages and discuss ways in which the framework can help to provide clarity and consistency

🔊 Speaker: Emma Ralph, Founder, Mighty Writer.

The session will be recorded and the recording will be shared to all those who register.

Free
FREE! Access for All: Digital Tools for Inclusive Exam Success with Carrie-Ann from Everway – October 2025

10 October, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Louise Dawson Professional and Management Development , United Arab Emirates

In this session we will explore how schools can confidently support exam access arrangements using simple, compliant digital tools.

What you’ll get:
- A look at how to support learners with SEND, EAL and temporary needs
- How to use technology that mirrors students' 'normal way of working'
- Real-world use cases from schools
- Live demos of key tools like Read&Write and ExamWritePad
- Time to connect and share experiences with fellow inclusion leaders

Whether you’re new to digital access tools or ready to take the next step, this morning is all about practical ideas, confidence-building insights, and collaborative conversations.

Free

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