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Schools Forum Elections

Schools Forum elections for headteachers (or senior leadership representatives) and Governors opened on Friday 25 March 2022. The deadline for submitting the nomination form is on 13 May 2022. There are still several vacancies for representatives, which are comprised of the following:  

  • 4 vacancies for maintained primary schools  
  • 1 vacancy for maintained secondary schools  
  • 1 vacancy for maintained special schools 
  • 2 vacancies for primary academies  
  • 6 vacancies for secondary academies.  
  • 1 vacancy for special academies 

School members should be broadly a 50:50 split between Headteachers (or their representatives) and Governors where this is possible.  As a minimum, there must be at least one representative of headteachers and one representative of governors among the schools members.  

The role of The Schools Forum is to act as a consultative body with regard to a range of funding decisions as listed in the Warwickshire Schools Forum Terms of Reference and the Education and Skills Funding Agency publication 'Schools Forum Powers and Responsibilities'.  

This is a great opportunity for you to make a difference in Warwickshire schools.  

If you are elected to Schools Forum you will be required to serve for a period of two years with the first meeting being at 2pm on Thursday 23 June, using Microsoft Teams.   

Meetings are generally held on Thursdays, usually between 2pm and 4pm.  It is likely these meetings will continue to be held virtually for the foreseeable future.  

Future meetings dates  

  • 23 June 2022  
  • 29 September 2022  
  • November 2022 Extraordinary meeting (if required)  
  • 12 January 2023  
  • 23 March 2023 

Further information and nomination papers please find below:

Deadline for nominations to be submitted is Friday 13 May 2022.  

For any queries, please email schoolfunding@warwickshire.gov.uk  

North Warwickshire Primary Science Curriculum Development Programme

The attached Primary Science Curriculum CPD, from the Science learning Partnership Curriculum Hub, is offered to all Primary Schools in North Warwickshire and Nuneaton & Bedworth (Coventry too).

Schools can access £150 of Teacher Release Payments too, and Park Lane Primary in Nuneaton have kindly offered to host this training for ease of access for local schools. 

UPDATE: Summer Term Headteachers' Conference (25th May 2022)

Venue and key speaker now confirmed! 

Summer Term 2022 Headteachers' Conference 

Wednesday 25th May 2022 (9.30am – 3.00pm) 

Venue: Best Western Plus Windmill Village Hotel, Golf Club & Spa, Birmingham Road, Allesley, Coventry, CV5 9AL 

Keynote Speaker: Sir Tim Brighouse 

An agenda for the conference will follow in due course.  Please note that this term’s conference will NOT be held on Microsoft Teams.

School Health UK Letter - Better Lunchtimes Mark

Please find here more details on the Better Lunchtimes Mark project.

Your school can be part of the Better Lunchtimes Mark Project, in a project for schools in Warwickshire and the surrounding counties, as the project's aim is to prioritise the school lunch experience for pupils across the UK.

Here is a video explaining it: 
Here is the link to sign-up and find out more:

Little Sutton English Hub newsletter

Please find here the latest edition of the Little Sutton English Hub newsletter.

Your help to gather parental feedback to improve School Admissions in Warwickshire

At Warwickshire County Council, we are reviewing the way parents and carers apply for a school place for their children. We want to ensure every parent and carer has the information and support they need to decide the most suitable education setting for their child to learn in.    

We have created the following questionnaire to understand from a parent and carer perspective, their experience of applying for a school place.  

Please can you encourage parents to complete this questionnaire as all feedback will be used to improve the process and how the system operates going forward.  

Link to Questionnaire

Please note this request has been sent through multiple channels, we apologise if you have received this more than once. 
 
The questionnaire will close on Monday 9th May.

Thrive at Work

We want to congratulate Baginton Fields School on achieving their foundation level Thrive at work award.

There are currently 18 schools working towards thrive across Coventry and Warwickshire 7 of which are in Warwickshire.

Schools working towards thrive can use this as evidence towards their Education staff wellbeing charter

To find out what support is available and how you can get started please contact Jenny Duggan, Thrive at work Lead for Coventry & Warwickshire at jenny.duggan@coventry.gov.uk.  Or check out the website www.wmca.org.uk/thriveatwork

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