School Census and Teacher Assessment Data Submission Summer 2018

To all Infant, Primary, Primary Special, Junior, Academy and Free Schools

For the attention of the headteacher, Year 1, Year 2, Year 6 teachers and administrative staff

Please find below LA Data Collection deadline dates for summer 2018 

Key dates to highlight:

May Summer School Census: DEADLINE - THURSDAY 17th MAY 2018
This exercise is vital for the moderation process as it identifies those children that have missing Key Stage results and enables the LA to support you with any submission queries.

KS1 and KS2 pupil data submission - LOCAL AUTHORITY DEADLINE MONDAY 25th JUNE 2018
Please be aware that the STA may consider it maladministration if schools do not meet the relevant submission date of 28th June 2018. To ensure this does not happen, we are opening the local authority data collection from MONDAY 4th JUNE 2018 for schools to submit data earlier than the STA deadline, so we can help schools if there are difficulties with their data submission.

Key Stage 2 Statutory Writing Moderation 2018

Exams and Ramadan: Guidance for Schools

FAO. All headteachers in primary, secondary and tertiary schools and colleges and anyone involved in adminstering public examinations including GCSE, GCE AS and A levels, and national curriculum tests (SATs)

In 2018, the Muslim festival of Ramadan falls in the same period as certain exams and tests. Ramadan is predicted to start around 17 May and will end around 14-15 June. Eid-al-Fitr festivities this year will fall on either 15 or 16 June.

We would therefore like to highlight to schools two useful guidance documents to help them to support any Muslim pupils who may be considering or planning to fast during the exam period:

1.  Ramadan: Exams and Tests, 2018, published by The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)

STA have been referring schools to this information paper and a link was included in the STA assessment update emailed to schools on 17th April.

2. Celebrating Diversity 2018 - a briefing paper on Ramadan, published by Newham Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) and recommended by the National Association of SACREs (NASACRE).

This has been written to support schools in making informed decisions about handling Muslim pupils who might be fasting during the time of public or internal school examinations. 

Emergency Contact Information

An email was sent to all headteachers from Monica Fogarty, Joint Managing Director of Warwickshire County Council, on 19th April, requesting headteachers' home and mobile telephone numbers for use only in emergency situations.

This request came as a result of a recent situation on the weekend during the snow/cold weather, where Severn Trent Water was down to zero water supply due to leaking reservoirs. We were faced with a situation whereby a large number of Warwickshire schools might not have been able to open on the Monday, and no way of contacting the relevant headteachers to alert them.  In this situation, email would not have been an effective means of communication due to the urgency of the decision required.

In order to avoid a similar situation in future, we have therefore requested all headteachers provide a home and mobile telephone number.

Thank you to those of you who have already responded to this request. There are still a large number of headteachers who have not responded, so if you have not already done so please could you follow the link below to the short online form to provide us with this information:

https://goo.gl/forms/Ty7PnTwGqjWqM9qh2

We would like to reassure you that the Google form is secure and your details will be held in a secure environment on WCC's network.  Access to this information will be restricted to the following people:

• Monica Fogarty, Joint Managing Director
• Chris Malone, Head of Service Education and Learning
• Jayne Surman, Marketing and Communications Manager
• Ruth Waterman, School Partnerships Support Officer

Should the need arise to widen the access to these details, we will notify of you this in advance.

If any of these contact details change at any time, please notify us by emailing schoolpartnerships@warwickshire.gov.uk so that we can update our records.

Thank you for your cooperation with this request.

Summer Term Headteachers' Meeting - 28th June 2018

Warwickshire's Summer Term Headteachers' Meeting will be taking place on the afternoon of Thursday 28th June 2018 at Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth.

We are very pleased to have secured Sir John Timpson CBE who will kick off the afternoon as our keynote speaker.  John is well-known for his 'upside-down management' philosophy, as well as for being a foster parent with his late wife Alex to over 90 children. John is currently working with Headteachers of Virtual Schools in the West Midlands on improving outcomes for Children who are Looked After.

The meeting will also be an opportunity for headteachers to hear key updates from Education and Learning. Please view the attached agenda for further details of the programme for the afternoon.

Date: Thursday 28th June 2018

Time: 1pm arrival for a 1.30pm start. Finish at 4pm.

Venue: Stareton Hall, NAEC, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, CV8 2LZ (For Satnav please use CV8 2LG)

Booking: please follow the link below to register your attendance using the online booking form:

Booking Form - Summer Term Headteachers' Meeting

For queries please contact Ruth Waterman on 01926 742075 or email schoolpartnerships@warwickshire.gov.uk

New address for IDS & EPS North Teams

The Integrated Disability Service & Educational Psychology Service North Teams have now moved out of Lancaster House to:

Kings House, Fifth Floor, King Street, Bedworth, CV12 8LL

IDS' new telephone number is 01926 413777

EPS' phone number has not changed; they can still be contacted on 02476 368885