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Cambridgeshire County Council have a live contract in place with Let Me Play Education to offer Teaching Assistant Level 3 Apprenticeships to maintained schools.
This Teaching Assistant Level 3 programme is an in depth funded Teaching Assistant qualification and once achieved you would be fully competent and qualified as a Level 3 Teaching Assistant.
As part of the Let Me Play Education programme all learners will also get access to over 60 online learning modules and a dedicated tutor that will enhance their knowledge as well as helping to work towards the main teaching assistant programme. More details on the apprenticeship with Let Me Play Education are available using the following link Teaching Assistant Level 3
How is it funded?
This programme is funded for maintained schools via the apprenticeship levy which is held centrally by Cambridgeshire County Council. This would not cost anything above and beyond what your school already contributes in to the levy.
How do I put staff forward?
If you wish to put staff forward for this apprenticeship please contact apprenticeships@cambridgeshire.gov.uk for further advice and support and not the training provider directly.
We are excited to let you know that we have been successful with recruiting Martine Simpson-Thomas for the position of Preparing for Adulthood Lead.
The PFA Lead will be working with Jane Hargrave, Senior Project Manager to enhance and drive strategic planning and development in line with the PFA agenda, ultimately supporting children and young people with SEN and Disabilities to prepare for adult life and to enable, empower and support young people to achieve the best outcomes in: health, employment, independent living and friends, relationships and community engagement.
What we have done so far:
We have already begun to outline our key PFA priorities from our SEND Strategy and SEND Transformation Programme, as well as linking these in with other key strategies, such as The ‘All Age Autism Strategy.
We have established our multi-agency Preparing for Adulthood Steering group to inform strategic planning and highlight key priorities. We have also established work streams in the following: Employment; Health; Independence & Community and Friendships. Our working groups leads will inform and report back to the PfA Steering group .
We know there is excellent work already happening within our local education community and keen to explore this further, including having a presence on such sites as Learn Together. If you would like to contact Martine for more information or to share your thoughts, success stories on the PFA agenda, please email Martine.Simpson-Thomas@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
If you have an issue with the road in and around your school you can use do this via our reporting page: Cambridgeshire County Council - ReportIt. For details on how to report an emergency fault please follow this link - Report a highways emergency - Cambridgeshire County Council
The above is the preferred method, however reports can also be made by calling the call centre on 0345 045 5212 where it will be passed on to the relevant team to deal with.
In the last of this series of guest blogposts, South Ayrshire Council’s Ian Leishman, Coordinator (Inclusion) shares how the ReadingWise programmes empower their support staff to be “agents of change” in children’s lives. Read the blogpost here.
Spending time outdoors, and contact with nature are beneficial for mental health and wellbeing, yet children are spending less time outdoors than ever before. Arts in nature experiences – described as ‘artscaping’ – delivered in primary schools can help to address this issue. The Branching Out project explores how ‘artscaping’ arts in nature experiences can be scaled up to reach more children by engaging volunteers as ‘Community Artscapers’ in order to tackle mental health inequalities in primary schools. Anglia Ruskin University is asking primary school staff involved in children's mental health to take part in the second round of a survey which aims to explore how Branching Out could work in different contexts and inform the development of the Branching Out approach. The survey is open until the end of 31 July 2022:
Anglia Ruskin Branching Out primary schools survey
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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Life Education runs drug and health programmes with a focus on physical & mental health with children from Nursery - Y6 and in special schools. They are now fully booked for 2022 - 2023.
Bookings available for 2023 – 2024. Please contact pshe@cambridgeshire.gov.uk for further details.
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We are excited to announce that in 2022-23 we will be providing a new programme for secondary PE ECTs and trainees offering intensive and specialist PE training and development for PE teachers new to the profession. This series of three termly training days will help embed subject expertise and practice, both in the classroom and through applied practical activities, and will supplement generic ECT CPD.
This ‘game-changing’ package is unique to the landscape and will be led by Ian Roberts, AfPE national strategic adviser for PE.
For further details contact PE.Adviser@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or check course information here.
National Eating Disorder charity BEAT have launched SPOT (Schools Professionals Online Training) encompasses a range of bite sized interactive learning webinar videos delivered by our expert eating disorder clinicians, E-learning modules and weekly Q&A sessions with an eating disorder clinician and Lived Experienced Ambassador. The platform also enables school professionals to post questions on a community forum to share advice with their peers.
SPOT aims to increase understanding of eating disorders, including how to spot the early signs in children of primary school age. The platform is free for all secondary schools but will incur a fee for Primary Schools. More information can be found here: SPOT - Online Training for Schools - Beat
British Gymnastics Teachers Trampoline Award - Refresher
4th July 2022 - One Leisure Centre, St Ives - £165
Target Audience: Key Stage 3 & 4 - Secondary PE Staff
British Gymnastics Intermediate Teachers Award
11th & 12th July 2022 – Littleport & East Cambs Academy, Littleport - £175
Audience: Key Stage 3 & 4 - Secondary PE Staff who hold a QTS or formal qualification or for formal qualification or for individuals working towards these qualifications.
PE for Secondary ECTs and Inexperienced Teachers
3 days – Autumn, Spring and Summer terms 2022-2023 - £360 – Papworth
Audience: This course is aimed at Secondary PE ECTs and inexperienced PE Teachers
Developing the role of the primary science subject leader
08 Jul 2022, 09.30 – 15.30, West Town Primary Academy, Peterborough, from £185
Primary science subscription package for 2022-2023
3 x network meetings and 1 full CPD day rolled into one bundle available from £185
Leading on secondary science curriculum
06 Oct 2022, 13.00 – 16.00, Swavesey Village College, from £95
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