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Support staff are the unsung heroes of a school, but they’re often undertrained and underused. Learning support assistants, cover supervisors, and pastoral staff can have a real impact when their skills are developed. This training empowers your support staff to make the biggest possible difference.
Below, we explain what our support staff and LSA training involves, and how it helps your whole team support pupils well.
What Is Support Staff & Learning Support Assistant Training?
It’s practical training that develops learning support assistants and wider support staff. We cover supporting learning effectively, promoting independence, behaviour support, working with pupils with SEND, and the confidence and skills support staff need to have real impact.
We value support staff as key members of the team and tailor the training to your setting and their roles.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It suits LSAs, teaching assistants, cover supervisors, and pastoral support staff. Trusts often run it across schools to raise the impact of support staff.
Many schools ask for it to develop support staff, improve SEND support, or make better use of their support team.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- The impact and value of support staff
- Supporting learning without creating dependence
- Promoting pupil independence
- Behaviour support strategies
- Working effectively with pupils with SEND
- Working in partnership with teachers
- Building confidence and skills
- Delivering interventions effectively
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Empower your support staff
Your support team gains the skills and confidence to make a real difference to pupils.
2
Improve SEND support
Support staff learn to help pupils with SEND access learning, not just sit alongside them.
3
Build pupil independence
We show support staff how to help pupils do more for themselves, which is what really helps.
4
Make the most of your team
Support staff are a major resource. Training makes sure they have real impact.
5
Improve behaviour support
Support staff learn strategies to support behaviour calmly and consistently.
6
Value your whole team
Investing in support staff boosts morale, retention, and impact.
7
Strengthen partnership
We help support staff and teachers work as an effective team.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We tailor the training to your support staff’s roles, so it’s practical and immediately useful.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Built for support staff
We develop the specific skills LSAs and support staff need.
Tailored to your setting
We shape the training around your team and their roles.
Whole-team, group, or individual
Train your support team, a group, or as part of INSET. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know how much difference well-developed support staff make. Our training empowers your whole team, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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