Gateway Alliance & Staffordshire Research School Primary Cognitive Science Programme

Primary Cognitive Science

A modular programme for Primary practitioners, brought to you by Staffordshire Research School & Gateway Alliance.

Applied Cognitive Science: Evidence into Practice

Through this ONLINE programme, based on robust research & evidence, participants will explore…

• What does the research say?
• What are the implications for my planning?
• Examples, case studies & avoidances
• A chance for reflection – What do I need to do more of & less of to apply these principles of research?
• So how do I do strategically put this evidence to work to give it the best chance of success?

Programme Overview:

This modular programme is being run over 4 online sessions:

Facilitated by Evidence Leads in Education (Staffordshire Research School) – Jade Pearce & Jeremy Baker

With Primary Specialist Co-Facilitators:

• Bryony Harrison – Hillmorton Primary School
• Matt Tyler – Claverdon Primary School
• Jen Taylor – St John’s Primary School

PRICE… £150 per person

BOOK NOW AT…

https://gatewayalliance.co.uk/product/pri-cog-sci/

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Gateway Alliance CPD Subscriptions 2022-23 - NOW AVAILABLE

The Gateway Alliance CPD Subscriptions for academic year 2022-23 are now available. Purchasing the CPD Subscriptions early offers schools the best value for money.

The programme provides targeted CPD for senior leaders, subject leaders, SENCos, early years specialists, classroom teachers and teaching assistants, school business managers and early career teachers.

Through these programmes you will have access to the best new and innovative practice from leading national and international speakers, authors and educational thought-leaders. GA networks are facilitated by a range of experienced trainers and consultants working alongside school practitioners, providing a fantastic opportunity for colleagues to learn together, network and share practice.

The programme for 2022-23 will be a really great mix of both face to face and online sessions and full details of speakers, dates and venues will be published early in the autumn. 

WHOLE SCHOOL BUNDLE… 

To celebrate ten years of providing high quality professional development to schools, this year we have a unique offer for schools to access all courses for just £2,300, which is a saving of £1,000! With Gateway providing 42 different training events, this equates to just £54 per event!

To access this great offer… Purchase ALL 10 CPD subscriptions (you will need to purchase 2 Curriculum CPD subscriptions to access all 10 curriculum subjects) and, at checkout, use voucher code: WHOLESCHOOL+

Other offers and discounts*… 

Small Schools - (less than 120 pupils) receive a 10% discount 

Recommend a Friend – recommend a new school & you receive a £50 voucher + they receive a 20% introductory discount.

For more information please visit: https://gatewayalliance.co.uk/subscriptions-guest/

or contact: 

NPQ Registrations Open for an October Start

John Taylor Teaching School Hub have partnered with Ambition Institute to deliver NPQs. There are 4 Specialist and 4 Leadership National Professional Qualifications, and an additional support offer for Headteachers.

Please check below for more information. 

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FREE Primary Mathematics Professional and School Development Opportunity

Origin Maths Hub (funded by the Department for Education) are delighted to offer primary, infant and junior schools in Warwickshire access to places on this free, fully funded programme of mathematics support. 

This opportunity involves teachers taking part in free collaborative mathematics training through half-termly workshops, and free bespoke support with half-termly school visits, to help schools to introduce teaching maths for mastery approaches into maths lessons - key to promoting a deeper and sustained understanding for all students. 

The key areas focused on are effective leadership, structures to support change, teacher CPD relating to teaching for mastery, classroom culture and attitude to mathematics (within teachers and pupils).

Support is tailored to each school’s specific needs, working with teachers and leaders within a school, as well as giving teachers the opportunity to work closely with teachers from other schools in the Work Group. 

It is free to take part, and after successful completion next academic year, you can move automatically to a Teaching for Mastery Development Work Group in Autumn 2023 (which is also free, and includes a £1000 participation grant to be paid to each school for taking part). 

Please use this link to find out more and register. 

Working together to improve attendance

Guidance to help schools, academy trusts, governing bodies, and local authorities maintain high levels of school attendance including roles and responsibilities

From September 2022, this will replace all previous guidance on school attendance except for statutory guidance for parental responsibility measures.  The Secretary of State has committed to it becoming statutory when parliamentary time allows (this will be no sooner than September 2023). 

Attendance Network Week

The Warwickshire Attendance Service are running an attendance week in July 2022, aimed at school attendance leads and attendance coordinators.  This will be informal meetings using Microsoft Teams.  The Warwickshire Attendance Service Leadership team will be available to provide updates and to answer your questions in relation to new requirements.   

The week will be 4^th, 5^th, 6^th and 7^th July 2002 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Additional time will be available afterwards if required. 

Should a member of your school wish to attend and ask questions, please can they email was@warwickshire.gov.uk  and include their name, school, position and all the dates they wish to attend.  Please can they put as many dates as possible, as we may sort the meetings by school type, depending on the demand.  It would be beneficial to have questions in advance with this email but not essential.   We will email invitations to the appropriate meetings during week commencing 27^th June 2022.

Modernising school attendance and admission registers and setting national thresholds for legal intervention

Government consultation - Launch date 17 June 2022, respond by 29 July 2022.

The DfE are seeking views on new regulations for keeping school registers and draft thresholds for legal interventions to improve consistency across England.

The main proposals relate to the following:

• All registers should be kept electronically
• Local authorities should have access and be able to take extracts from the admission register and attendance register of all schools to enable them to carry out their statutory functions
• Schools should make a ‘sickness return’ to inform their local authority when the authority should arrange alternative education for one of their pupils
• The current Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 should be changed in relation to the reasons a child can be removed from the admissions register. This includes additional requirements where a pupil has a EHCP, CPP or CiNP.
• Recording in the attendance register should be simplified
• Proposed thresholds relating to the issuing of penalty notices for a national code of conduct

The consultation can be found through the following link:

School registers and national thresholds for legal intervention - Department for Education - Citizen Space

Data Sharing

We are being asked by the DfE to encourage all schools to sign up to data sharing.  We have been told that we will be provided with access to the shared data by the end of June 2022 and will then contact those schools not currently sharing to provide support.  Further details can be found at the following link:

• https://www.gov.uk/guidance/share-your-daily-school-attendance-data

If you are in the process of changing your MIS or have plans to and have any questions, then please contact us.  We will arrange a call back from our ICT team to discuss this in more detail.

Improving attendance: good practice for schools and multi-academy trusts

To support the transition to the new ways of working, the DfE is holding a series of webinars.  These webinars are a good resource with schools sharing how they have improved their attendance.

Webinar theme 

30 June 2022 (16:00-17:00)

• Sign up for a webinar hosted by Unity Schools Partnershipon analysing absence and attendance data 

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• Effective governance which supports stronger attendance

Previous Webinars can be found at the following Link:

• Improving attendance: good practice for schools and multi-academy trusts - Case study - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

‘Working together to improve attendance’ can be found at the following link:

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-together-to-improve-school-attendance

‘Improving school attendance: support for schools and local authorities’ can be found at the following link:

• Improving school attendance: support for schools and local authorities - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you wish to discuss this further, please feel free to contact the Warwickshire Attendance Service.

was@warwickshire.gov.uk

Warwickshire’s Aspiring Headteachers Programme

The programme will consist of approximately 7 sessions, delivered via a mix of online and face to face sessions. The programme will be hosted by Debby Hughes (Former Headteacher of High Meadow Community School, Learning Improvement Officer for Warwickshire LA and visiting fellow for Ambition Institute – NPQSL) and there will be a range of guest speakers inputting into the sessions, including local headteachers, key colleagues from LA services as well as some national speakers.

The programme will run over the course of 2 terms starting in autumn 2022 and will cover themes such as:

• Leading the organisation - moral imperative, vision, innovation in the curriculum
• Leading teaching and learning – curriculum, CPD, preparing for Ofsted, using data and closing the gap
• The school as a business - finance, HR, legislation and policy
• Applying for headship and working with governors

This programme is fully funded by Warwickshire County Council and further details will be made available in due course.

The Aspiring Headteachers Programme is being organised by the Gateway Alliance on behalf of Warwickshire LA. 

ACTION:  If you are interested in securing a place on our 2022-23 cohort of this fully funded programme, starting in the autumn, please complete this expression of interest form as soon as possible. 

If you have any queries, please contact Helen Martin on martin.h@welearn365.com.

EUSS settlement scheme support

Homes For Ukraine Welfare Checks

Schools would need to deal with any safeguarding concerns in the usual way to the Integrated Front Door.  Should you have any more general queries we have a Homes for Ukraine helpline available 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday ukraine@warwickshire.gov.uk, 0800 408 1447.

Information: cost of school uniforms

Schools will be aware that the Department for Education published new statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms in November 2021.

Schools should be compliant with much of the guidance by September 2022. The ‘requirements for schools’ section sets out the actions that schools need to take before parents seek to purchase or acquire uniform items in summer 2022.

This includes a requirement for schools to make sure that second-hand uniforms are available for parents to acquire (either from the school directly or from an established scheme). While schools can decide the particular method they are going to use to make the provision of second-hand uniforms available, all schools should ensure that information on second-hand uniform is clear for parents of current and prospective pupils and published on the school’s website.

DfE expect schools to be engaging with parents and pupils to ensure that any required changes are in place ahead of September 2022.

School Readiness Health Questionnaire

Connect for Health  is promoting their service and School Readiness Health Questionnaire with parents/carers of children who are starting school for the first time. 

Starting school for the first time is a significant milestone for every child, and often a scary and exciting time for them and their parents/carers. Connect for Health wants to make sure all children and families have the support they need with their health, wellbeing and development to prepare for this. This questionnaire helps to identify when families may need support and advice in order to help children meet their full potential as they enter education. A school nurse will review the questionnaire and may be in contact with parents/carers.

The questionnaire should be completed online by all parents/carers with a child due to attend a Warwickshire school for the first time in September. It will be open for completion from June through to August.

Further information about the questionnaire and how to complete it can be found here: https://www.compass-uk.org/sr-hq

The following leaflet about the questionnaire is available for families: A5 leaflet – https://cutt.ly/sr-hq-a5leaflet