WE3 Family of schools
National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
Please find here the document.
Primary Consortia and Secondary Area Network updated lists
Education Services work closely with the Primary Consortia and Secondary Area Networks. Please find attached the up to date list of schools in each group which now includes early years and Special Schools together.
Click here for the List of Primary Consortia and Chairs and
click here for the list of Secondary Area Chairs
Solihull Approach - New online guide designed for teenagers
The Solihull Approach have designed a new online guide specifically for teenagers. Understanding your brain is free for teenagers to access in Warwickshire. The new guide is now part of the wider online parenting programme offered by the Solihull Approach:
- Understanding your pregnancy
- Understanding your baby
- Understanding your child
- Understanding your teenager’s brain (for parent/carers)
- Understanding your brain – for teenagers
- Understanding trauma (for professionals only)
To raise awareness of the new guide, we will be sending out an email to all secondary school admin addresses on Monday 12th October with a promotional postcard, detailing how to access and sign up for the course. Please look out for the email and share as appropriate.
For further details about the other guides offered by Solihull Approach, please access https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/parentguides
Maths Mastery Readiness and Teaching for Mastery
Origin maths hub - the new maths hub for Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire - is recruiting for Maths Mastery Readiness and Teaching for Mastery Work Groups.
This is a year-long national programme designed to support schools before they move into full Teaching for Mastery. It supports leadership teams in strengthening the foundations of mathematics in school and provides time and free support from the hub to move teaching and learning forwards. The programme entitles each school to a full day’s workshop each half term, as well as half a day follow-up support in school with a consultant, each half term. There is a requirement for the maths subject leader and one other teacher to be released for these sessions, and the programme must be wholly supported by the headteacher.
Schools can register their interest here
The deadline for applications is Monday 19th October 2020.
If you are interested please see here for more information.
Pupil Behaviour and Recording of Seating Arrangements on Home to School Transport
It is more important than ever for pupils to follow the advice and guidance for safer travel on home to school transport to ensure they do not engage in behaviour which may cause a risk of infection to other passengers and operator staff.
The Local Authority appreciates the continued support from schools in conveying to pupils and parents/carers the message and measures necessary to help minimise the risk of transmission.
Where a pupil/passenger does not behave in accordance with the Warwickshire County Council Home to School Transport
code of conduct and/or generate an unacceptable safety risk to staff, operators will be asked to report any issues to the local authority and the school. Evidence of deliberate acts of misbehaviour could lead to the withdrawal of transport on a temporary basis, and in extreme cases on a permanent basis.
As part of the advice and guidance, pupils are told to sit in the same seat on the vehicle each day to minimise transmission and facilitate the identification of close contacts as part of the test and trace process. We are aware that some schools have a seating plan or have collated a record of seat numbers from their pupils that use dedicated home to school transport that can be drawn upon . For those schools that don't hold this information we are asking that schools collate this from their pupils that travel on home to school transport as soon as possible, in order that this information can be called upon as part of the track and trace process to avoid unnecessary self-isolation periods for some pupils.
Whilst Warwickshire County Council have pressed the importance of numbering seats or rows on vehicles to the operators where it is feasible, we are aware of a small number of vehicles where seat or row numbering is not in place. In these instances, we ask that a row number or area of the bus is still recorded. If you require passenger lists for your school or a visual vehicle seating plan to aid the recording of pupil seat numbers please contact busservices@warwickshire.gov.uk for availability.
Warwickshire Prevent Conference 2020 - 23rd November 2020
Dear Colleagues,
As you will be aware, we will be hosting the annual Prevent Conference on 23rd November 9.30 - 12.45. This year the conference will be online
The key headlines of the event are:
- The Warwickshire Prevent Conference provides leading expert guidance on key issues currently facing the Prevent agenda
- The date of the event is 23rd November 2020 and this year will be conducted as an online conference. It will start at 9.30 and be a half day event.
The key areas of focus this year will be:
- The impact of radicalisation within families and how to engage and support vulnerable individuals who may be engaging with extremist influences
- Looking at the issues of mental health, well-being and Prevent
- Considering the changing threat and risk from Right Wing Terrorism
- Looking at Contextual Safeguarding as a means of assessing vulnerabilities and potential for grooming and exploitation
We are hugely fortunate to have secured the contribution of fantastic range of speakers to address these issues, and should be a genuinely engaging and informative event which will be delivered online. It will be directly relevant to colleagues from across all of the agencies covered by the Prevent Duty, in particular representatives from Health & Social Care, Local Authority, Policing, Fire, Education as well as those in Voluntary, Faith and Community sectors.
In order to reserve your place, please register
on this link
Please can you also circulate this to other colleagues who you feel would benefit from this event.
If you have any queries, please do contact me to discuss
Regards
Geoff Thomas
FREE programme for Year 10 Students in Warwick Secondary Schools: Knife Crime & County Lines
Warwick District Council is fully funding its secondary schools to have Loudmouth Education & Training’s 30-minute theatre in education assembly on knife crime and county lines for their Year 10 students.
The programme uses well researched drama and includes a discussion workshop to help young people spot the signs of grooming, raise empathy for victims and see the impact of child exploitation. It highlights how perpetrators target young people’s vulnerabilities, how victims and perpetrators can be anyone. There will be an opportunity to reinforce the support available to young people and how this can be reported.
If schools cannot have external visitors and/or year groups can only meet in class bubbles, then this is available as a blended learning option (pre-recorded lesson).
This FREE assembly or pre-recorded lesson must be delivered by the end of March 2021.
Please contact caroline@loudmouth.co.uk for further information or ring 0121 446 4880.
Flu vaccine more important than ever during COVID-19 pandemic
Health and care partners across Coventry and Warwickshire are encouraging residents to help protect the NHS by having their flu vaccination on time this year to avoid an increase in this serious preventable illness.
Residents are being urged to think about how cold weather and winter viruses may affect them, vulnerable family members and neighbours this year, especially while the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing. Although the flu vaccination does not protect people from coronavirus, scientist are expecting a surge in virus cases in the autumn/winter period of the year when flu season peaks.
This year’s free flu vaccine will be offered to more people than before to help protect the health of our communities
This includes those:
- Aged 65 or over
- Pregnant women
- All adults and children (from the age of 6 months) with chronic conditions such as COPD and Diabetes, and others that affect a range of body systems
- Any child from the age of 2, through to Year 7 school age
- Carers and those working in health and social care
- People who were required to shield from coronavirus and anyone they live with
- Later in the year people aged between 50 and 64 will also be included
Please read here more.
Full Agenda for Autumn Term Headteachers’ Conference – 21 October 2020
We hope you will join us at our Autumn Term Headteachers’ Conference which is taking place virtually on Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 21 October 2020, 10.00am to 11.30am.
The focus of this term’s conference will be the SEND & Inclusion Change Programme and will also include updates from the Council.
We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker for this term’s headteachers’ conference has been confirmed. Dame Christine Lenehan DBE is the Director of the Council for Disabled Children which is part of the National Children’s Bureau.
Please see the agenda for full details of the sessions and speakers.
Further information
Please email schoolpartnerships@warwickshire.gov.uk with any queries or for further information.
Government Job Support Scheme (COVID-19)
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (Furlough) ends on 31 October. It is to be replaced by the Government’s Job Support Scheme which commences on 1 November 2020 and will run for 6 months until April 2021. The stated aim of the Job Support Scheme is to protect viable jobs in businesses who are facing lower demand over the winter months due to Covid-19, to help keep their employees attached to the workforce.
The Government has produced a Job Support Scheme Factsheet although further detail of the practical application of the scheme is awaited. For example, the position of its application to local authorities and other public bodies is a little unclear because of conflicting information. We shall be seeking to clarify these issues and will provide further details once available.
Employers using the Job Support Scheme will also be able to claim the Job Retention Bonus for employees if they have previously claimed payments for those employees under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and they retain them in employment until 31 January 2021 if they meet the other eligibility criteria.
If you are interested in using either the Job Retention Bonus or the Job Support Scheme, please notify WES HR Advisory on weshradvice@warwickshire.gov.uk