WE2 An empowering curriculum

Support for teaching Religious Education

FOR HEADTEACHERS, RE SUBJECT LEADERS, RE COORDINATORS

Jennifer Jenkins – RE Facilitator Hello!

My name is Jennifer Jenkins and I am the newly appointed RE Facilitator for Coventry and Warwickshire. My role is to provide support to schools in delivering high quality RE for their pupils and to support the Coventry and Warwickshire SACREs (Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education) with their work. If you have any queries or require any support regarding RE, you can contact me via email at jenniferjenkins@warwickshire.gov.uk. My working day in this role is on a Thursday.

In the next few weeks you will be receiving an Autumn RE Bulletin, which will draw your attention to important dates and events in the world of RE. We will also be sending out a school RE Survey as an important part of our monitoring of RE in Warwickshire Schools. Please complete the survey as quickly and comprehensibly as you can. I look forward to working with you on developing excellence in RE in the future.

Request for contact details of your RE Coordinator

To help us to send the Autumn RE Bulletin, survey details and other useful information to the correct person please could you provide us with the contact name and email of your RE Lead/Coordinator. A request was sent out at the end of last term, so thank you to those who have already provided us with this information, if you haven’t done so please send contact details to schoolpartnerships@warwickshire.gov.uk by 26 September.

Changes to Warwickshire SENDIAS

WE2d Learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Warwickshire County Council has commissioned KIDS to take over the running of SENDIAS from Family Action who currently provide the service. The changes came into effect from August 1 2018. KIDS is a national charity established to provide a wide range of support to disabled children, young people and their families from birth to 25 years. KIDS aim to continue and build on the work done by Family Action in supporting parents, carers and families of all Warwickshire children with special educational needs and disability with impartial SEN information advice and support for example:

• Supporting parents and carers at meetings e.g. with schools or the local authority
• Supporting parents and carers during assessment for an EHC plan
• Liaising with schools, the LA, support services and local statutory and voluntary organisations
• Representing parents and carers and promoting their views within strategic groups
• Along with providing workshops for schools, governors, early years providers and statutory agencies

For more information please see the website: www.kids.org.uk/warwickshire-sendias

 

Training courses for SEND and Inclusion 2018-19

HEADTEACHERS, SENCOs, TEACHERS

Please click the link below to view the 2018-19 training brochure for SEND and Inclusion in Warwickshire. The courses range from strategic planning for the whole school to personalised programmes to meet specific needs.

2018-19 SEND and Inclusion Training Brochure

For additional information about training visit: Warwickshire Education Services

Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions

HEADTEACHERS, CHAIRS OF GOVERNORS

In order to support pupils at school with medical conditions, governing bodies must ensure that there is a school policy and a named person with responsibility for policy implementation. Part of this responsibility is to ensure there are sufficient staff who have received suitable training and are competent before they take on responsibility to support children with medical conditions.

Please refer to the statutory guidance for further information: Supporting pupils at school with medical conditions

Medical Conditions Awareness Training

FOR NOMINATED SCHOOL STAFF WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUPPORTING PUPILS WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS

Warwickshire School Health & Wellbeing Service have arranged FREE medical conditions awareness training via cluster sessions throughout the county. These training sessions are for nominated school staff with responsibilities for children and young people with medical conditions including Anaphylaxis, Asthma and Epilepsy. Numbers of places available will be dependent on the venue capacity.

Training date (the session runs from 16:00 – 18:00)

• Tue 2 Oct St. Michael’s CE Primary School Wed 3 Oct St. John’s Primary School

Places can be booked by contacting the Service on either 03300 245 204 or warwickshireSH&WBService@compass-uk.org

Subsidised school-based training

Training is available for those schools who would prefer on-site training. The service is able to offer the following two courses:

• Asthma and Anaphylaxis (1 hour)
• Epilepsy (1 hour)

The courses cost £60 each and can be arranged by contacting WSHWS_Rugby@welearn365.com to request a booking form. Schools will be responsible for the local organisation of these courses.

News from the School Health Team

HEADTEACHERS, PSHE LEADS, YEAR HEADS

Warwickshire School Health and Wellbeing Service - updates

Prior to, and during the summer holidays, the service has been actively promoting the School Entry online health needs questionnaire. This health needs questionnaire enables parents to inform us of any health concerns they have for their children.

Early in September we will send out information and consent paperwork to all schools for parents/carers regarding the online Health Needs questionnaire which is offered to year 6 and year 9 students. For both year 6 and year 9, consent is considered to be given unless a parent/carer specifically decides to opt out of the process. The information gathered through the completion of the online health questionnaire enables us to understand the health needs of students. Following analysis of the data we will contact schools to arrange a meeting with the head teacher/PSHE lead/year head. We will then jointly develop a plan for how we can work together to address the identified health needs.

We would like to assure you that all information is held securely and only anonymised information is shared with partner agencies.

Our contact details:

• We have one central phone number – 03300 245 204, please select option 1,2 or 3 depending on where your school is located
• ChatHealth – Young People can contact us directly using our confidential text messaging number - 07507331525
• ChatHealth Parentline – Parents can contact us directly using our confidential text messaging number – 07520619376