For consultation: proposed school term and holiday dates for 2021/22
Schools are being asked to provide comments on the proposed school term dates for 2021/22 by Friday 20 December 2019
Warwickshire County Council is responsible for setting school term and holiday dates for all community and voluntary controlled schools. To date, the majority of voluntary aided, foundation and academy schools have also followed the same term and holiday dates.
Headteachers of all Warwickshire schools and other key stakeholders should have recently received a letter from Hayley Good which sets out two options for school term and holiday dates for the academic year 2021/22. You can read a copy of this letter here.
We would like to give schools the opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed calendars for 2021/22. Any comments or suggestions will be taken into account before the final dates are decided by the Portfolio Holder for Education.
How to send us your feedback
By email: schoolorganisation@warwickshire.gov.uk
By completing the feedback questionnaire
Feedback should be submitted by Friday 20 December 2019.
New recruitment round for LLEs
If you are a headteacher / principal or equivalent and you would like to work with leaders in other schools to improve pupil outcomes, you might want to consider applying to be a CSW Local Leader of Education.
The Teaching Schools in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire (CSW) are working collaboratively to build capacity for local school improvement work and are running a new recruitment round for Local Leaders of Education (LLEs).
They are seeking to appoint high calibre leaders, usually those who are headteachers or principals or those who have been involved extensively in whole school improvement. Successful applicants will work in a range of schools, on various school improvement initiatives.
Application window: 2 December 2019 to 10 January 2020
Reference deadline: 24 January 2020
For more information, please contact:
Alternatively, you can seek information, and download the application pack and reference form from the CSW Teaching Schools website.
10,000th school meal served at brand new Warwickshire school
Our Local Authority Traded Company (LATC) school caterers, Educaterers, have served their 10,000th meal at our brand new ‘state of the art’ school, Water Orton Primary School in North Warwickshire.
Pupils at the school celebrated the occasion with Educaterers catering staff, with one lucky pupil, Kayleigh, receiving a £10 gift card from Operations Supervisor, Angie Goldney, and Catering Supervisor, Hilary Cooper, for helping them to reach the landmark number of meals served (see photo).
The new ‘state of the art’ school building opened in September, with Educaterers receiving the contract to offer meals to over 300 pupils at the school from their brand new kitchen.
The new school, which has been built with £3.5million funding from HS2, has moved across the village green from its previous location in Victorian school buildings in Attleboro Lane to its new building in Plank Lane, as the original site was due to be affected by the high-speed train line.
The school build was completed on schedule and in less than 12 months. Its open plan layout has the latest acoustic design and technology including solar powered roof vents, underfloor heating and a new ‘drive in, drop off’ car park.
It also includes ‘Evergreen’, a resource facility funded by Warwickshire County Council especially for children with Autistic Spectrum, communication and interaction difficulties who may not have been able to attend mainstream education previously.
The official opening ceremony for the new school site in November included a street party along the new school’s two main ‘streets’, which were festooned with bunting, and a cake especially made for the occasion by Educaterers.
Emergency School Closures advice
Free text service
WCC offers a free text service to provide alerts about school closures to anyone who would like to subscribe.
The service is set up in such a way that you will only receive alerts for the school you sign up for and you can subscribe to receive alerts for more than one school.
Full instructions on how to subscribe are available on the Emergency School Closures page. Please do share this link with your families so they can subscribe if they haven't already done so.
Please note: the number that people need to message in order to subscribe has recently changed. This has been updated on the school closure SMS system and on the Emergency School Closures page.
We are aware that some schools operate their own text service however any school taking the decision to close should still notify us using the phone number for the Emergency School Closures line below.
Notifying us if your school is closed
If you have taken the decision to close your school for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible by calling the Emergency School Closures line on 01926 412611.
Please give information about when the school will be closed from and until, reasons for closure and a DfE number to identify the school.
This will then be added into the school closure system and pulled through onto the schools closure webpage with messages going to parents who have signed up to receive alerts.
Get real-time updates on Twitter
Parents, carers, students and staff can follow our Twitter account @wccschoolclosed for the latest real-time updates.