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Are you are aware that you can claim pupil premium plus for children previously in care? In additional to claiming for children who have been in care in England and Wales and then adopted, under a special guardianship order or a child arrangement order, the criteria has extended to include children who have been adopted from care from outside of England or Wales. To claim the funding you need to see evidence of previously in care status and record this on the October Census. Best practice is to send a letter to all families. An exemplar letter is available here
For further advice please contact virtualschool@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Over the summer the County Council received a high volume of paper based Teachers pension forms that required signing by an authorised Local Authority officer. This adds in a significant amount of time to the processing of pensions documentation and there is a quicker way to do this! The teachers pension website has all the information you may need in one place and this includes online versions of most of the forms you need to access your pension, make changes to your pension record etc. As they are online forms they are much quicker to process and we therefore want to encourage everyone to use the online forms as much as possible. Next time you or a member of your team need to complete a form for teachers pension please check the website first to see if you can use an online version.
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East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) recently launched its new Challenge Badge for schools and youth groups across the region Designed for 10 -14 year olds, it provides educational, engaging, creative and fun content, including potentially life-saving CPR training. Registration is free and you will receive the resources needed to complete the tasks as well as support from your local community fundraiser. All participants receive a badge and certificate upon completion. To register or find out more information, including FAQs, please visit the Challenge Badge page of the EAAA website. EAAA looks forward to welcoming you to its family!
As part of the fully funded, year-long Mental Health and Relationships Programme, we would like to invite primary schools in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have NOT signed up the for the Cambridgeshire Primary Personal Development Programme, to attend this meeting. You will be introduced to a series of high-quality Units of Work (YR to Y6) on Healthy Friendships and Anti-bullying, for use in PSHE lessons. You will also receive a model Anti-bullying Policy and guidance on whole school approaches.
There are two events: one online (26th September) and one on in person (27th September- ICA Peterborough PE2 8DL)
Sign up for these events and access resources using this form.
For more information contact PSHE Service or access our course brochure.
As part of a fully funded, year-long Mental Health and Relationships Programme, we would like to invite primary schools in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to attend the launch of the programme. School leaders can find out about the resources, events and training opportunities provided and scope out how their school might benefit.
The launch events are held on 10th and 11th October 3.45 - 4.45 pm online.
Sign up for these events and access resources using this form.
For more information contact PSHE Service or access our course brochure.
 The archaeological excavations of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Road scheme were completed by MOLA Headland Infrastructure (MHI) in 2018. With an emphasis on learning and discovery about the impact of human activity on the landscape, MHI have produced a novel online, interactive, ArcGIS-based vegetation StoryMap - A14: The evolution of a landscape through time (arcgis.com). More A14 archaeology StoryMaps are due (2024).
This StoryMap stands to be a great tool to use in geography, science, maths, history, IT, art and creative writing classes. With user-friendly storyboards, videos, maps and links to local research, it is a versatile teaching tool.
Christine Counsell will examine what cognitive science can and can't tell us about using story in a curriculum and why this matters for securing curriculum quality.
Tuesday 10th October, 2023 5-7pm
Target Audience: All primary and secondary teachers, HoDs, SLT, middle & subject leaders, governors
Venue: Vista Academy, Littleport, CB6 1EW
The East Cambs & Fenland Evidence Network invite you to join us for Evidence Bites #3 - an informal, professionally energising event to meet colleagues, enjoy a bite to eat and hear an inspiring speaker!
£15 a ticket or use the code MULTI for discount on 2 tickets
For more information, please contact: blayfield@robertarkenstall.co.uk
A school travel plan is a document produced by schools that defines good road safety practice for pupils travelling to and from school. School travel plans play an important part in encouraging pupils to walk, cycle and use public transport. Having an up-to-date school travel plan is an important part of any planning application a school makes.
A school travel plan should include:
- a description of the school and its environment
- a summary of established good road safety practice and initiatives – specifically pedestrian training, cycling skills, road safety in the curriculum
- a summary of any road safety or schools transport problems
- proposed initiatives with objectives and targets, eg a walking bus or car sharing scheme
- a baseline survey
- a clear achievable plan of action
- plans for monitoring and review
Plans are developed by schools in Cambridgeshire in partnership with pupils, teachers, parents, carers, school governors and local residents. The plan should demonstrate the school's commitment to environment and community concerns and to the safety and welfare of pupils. There is no charge to schools for taking part in the travel plan system. A school travel plan also enables schools to formally record any issues of concern such as poor parking near the school and to access Road Safety Education team support to help address these issues.
It is important for all schools to monitor travel behaviour and to review and update plans each year.
School travel plans are completed online at Modeshift Stars.
Support with a Modeshift STARS travel plan is available by emailing road.safety@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s flagship mental health information and support website (Keep-Your-Head.com) has been providing reliable mental health support since 2016. The website needs bringing up-to-date to ensure it is user friendly and provides the latest information on local services and support available. To do this we need your help!
To help shape this website refresh project, we’re asking local people to fill out a short survey to help gather feedback on the current site and how they currently find out about local information and support available. The survey will run until Sunday 17 September.
Here is the link to the survey: bit.ly/KYHSurvey
Please find the QR Code below.
Your feedback will inform the refresh of the Keep-Your-Head.com website to ensure we develop an improved all-age, single point of access mental health website, with advice and information about mental health services and support in the region and highlight recent updates, changes and useful activities. For more information about the refresh project please visit the dedicated page on the ICS website here: www.cpics.org.uk/keep-your-head-refresh
If you would prefer to share your views over the phone instead, please contact victoria.morton@sunnetwork.org.uk to arrange a time and date to take part.
National Playday was a great success this year despite the awful weather forecast. We had multiple agencies, like Healthy you, NSPCC, Wisbech and Fenland Museum and our own volunteers, attended the event and delivered free activities for our families and young people. We were delighted to see so many local families and also many from outside of the Wisbech area.
It was a fun filled day for all involved and the team received great feedback from people including “it was an enjoyable day and fantastic activities for the children, we will be back again”.
Please find the letter from Cambridgeshire Community Services Moving and Handling Advisors below:
Letter to Headteachers / SENCOS
With NHS dentist places being in very short supply, there has never been a more critical time to ensure that the correct oral health messages are being delivered through the curriculum in primary schools.
To coincide with the September Smile Stations, a free 1 hour CPD webinar, has been created by Cambridgeshire Community Services Oral Health Team, to support teaching staff by upskilling and improving confidence in delivering Oral Health Promotion in the classroom. This includes key oral health messages and basic trauma management along with ideas and suggestions on how best to integrate these into lesson planning to ensure national curriculum requirements are met. The presentation will be followed up with a simple toolkit to inform lesson delivery.
The webinar takes place online on Tuesday 26th September 2023 (15:45 – 16:45)
Following a successful pilot project, we are now able to offer this exciting project, to other secondary schools. Youth Travel Ambassador (YTA) is a peer led project. You will be assigned a Road Safety Officer who will work with a group of yr 9 students to produce a package of road safety/active travel initiatives for yr 6/7 transition. Resources, information, and advice will be given. This is free to all secondary schools and will start after October half term. To express an interest and for more information please contact Maree.richards@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Awesome Smiles September Stations is a new event funded by Cambridgeshire County Council to offer a whole school approach to Oral Health promotion, with free access to a resource pack. All primary schools throughout Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are encouraged to set a date in September and have fun with a circuit of activity stations to encourage all pupils from reception to KS2 to get excited about caring for their smiles. All resources and instructions for the activities are provided by Awesome Oral Health. Accredited by the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy (BSDHT), the digital downloadable resources (including mini videos) can be accessed here.
Fathers Reading Every Day is a reading-for-pleasure intervention for fathers and their child of any age, often delivered through primary schools. It works by encouraging men to read to their child, understand the importance of listening to their child’s reading, and share in literacy-benefiting activities for a fixed number of minutes per day for four weeks. Tuesday 10th October, 9:45 am – 3 pm or Thursday 18th January, 9:45 am – 3 pm. Open to all practitioners, especially those working with children, families and parents in conflict. Online. Free of Charge. To book email rpctraining@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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With a rise in the number of children vaping, NHS Better Health, Every Mind Matters have created teaching resources aimed at helping Key Stage 3 children understand the impact that vaping has on their physical and mental wellbeing. Written by teachers and featuring films co-created with young people, they encourage discussion about nicotine, what vaping is and the impact it has on both young people and the environment. The flexible resources can be used individually during form time or together as a full lesson plan. They are available to download for free here.
Local support is also available to both primary and secondary schools across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough through the Catch Your Breath programme. Find out more about the range of prevention workshops as well as targeted interventions that are available free of charge here: Catch Your Breath – the smoking and vaping programme for schools - Healthy Schools (healthyschoolscp.org.uk) For all enquiries mail: healthyschools@healthyyou.org.uk
Artscaping is an established arts-in-nature programme run by arts and well-being charity Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI). It supports learning, mental health and wellbeing and focuses on how all children can flourish. Recent research with primary schools across the county has demonstrated how schools can establish teams of Community Artscapers to run their own nature groups. The impact of Artscaping can be viewed here: https://www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/resource/eco-capabilities-2021
Two new free resources that share the learning and research to date are now available on the CCI website. There is a fully illustrated Guide to Artscaping, and a thirty-minute introductory webinar including interviews with children, artists, staff, headteachers and researchers.
The Artscaping Guide and webinar can be accessed here:
https://www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/our-work/schools/amplifying-artscapers
For more information about CCI and Artscaping, visit the CCI website: www.cambridgecandi.org.uk/ or contact Ruth Sapsed: ruth@cambridgecandi.org.uk
We are excited to announce the County Physical Education conference on the Wednesday 14 February, where the focus will be the legacy that PE can create for young people. Consideration will be give to how well taught PE & Sport can be a tool to strengthen transfers and transitions for young people between phases and help to accelerate progress, increase confidence and reduce anxiety. Teachers will have a choice of innovative practical and theoretical workshops to address focus areas that are relevant to their professional and school needs. We will also be launching the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Strategy for PE & School Sport. EARLY BIRD BOOKING AVAILABLE UNTIL 1.12.23
Further details here
Any questions – please contact ian.roberts@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Woodgreen offer an exciting range of free face to face workshops and clubs for all ages from reception classes right through to Y11, teaching young people about pets and safety around dogs.
Workshop bookings now open for the 2023 autumn term, subject to availability.
Find out more: community@woodgreen.org.uk
SIS – Success@Arithmetic Number Sense & Calculation – Maths Intervention tab
Audience: KS2 class teachers & teaching assistants. Session 1 of 3. Monday 25th September 2023, 13:30 – 16:00. Face to face training at Stanton House Huntingdon. This is a joint session for both interventions. £775 for Cambs LA schools & £850 for out of county schools, Cambridgeshire academies & independent schools
SIS – 1stClass@Number 2 – Maths Intervention tab
Audience: Year 3 teachers, Maths subject leaders & teaching assistants. Session 1 of 5. Wednesday 27th September 2023, 09:15 – 15:15. Face to face training at Stanton House Huntingdon. £775 for Cambs LA schools & £850 for out of county schools, Cambridgeshire academies & independent schools
SIS – Leading Improvements in Phonics – Leadership Development Package tab
Audience: Phonics and Early Reading Leads, English Subject Leaders, Year 1 Teachers. Wednesday 27th September 2023, 13:30 – 16:30. Face to face training at Over Community Centre. No charge for schools that have purchased Element 2 of the Primary Offer. £65 per place for Cambs LA schools & £75 per place for out of county schools, Cambs academies and independent schools.
Getting to Grips with A Level Physics
For secondary teachers. 4 days, starting 21 Sep 2023, 09.30 – 16.00, Sir Harry Smith Community College, £800 with £630 subsidy available. Includes 2 x FREE Maths webinars
H&S for Trainees and Early Careers Teachers
For secondary teachers. 3 sessions starting 27 Sep 2023, 16.00 – 17.00, remote delivered, from £150 with £105 subsidy available
Developing the role of the primary science subject leader
For primary teachers. 22 Sep 2023, 09.30 – 15.30, Trumpington Meadows Primary School, from £200 with £140 subsidy available
Level 5 Certificate in Primary School PE Specialism/Level 6 Award in Primary School PE Subject Leadership
6/8 dates starting 13th February 2024 – 9.30am-4.30pm. Sunley House, Papworth Everard. £1125/£1400
Audience: PE Leads and all teachers in primary school PE. It is also ideal for HLTAs, Tas and sports coaches employed in schools.
Secondary Heads of PE Network Meeting
30th October 2023 – 3.30pm-5pm. Online. £49
Bringing Classroom PE to Life
1st November 2023 – 1.30pm-4.30pm – Cambridgeshire Maintained Schools £93, All Academies and Non-Cambridgeshire Schools £111
Audience: Heads of PE in Secondary Schools
Anti Bullying for Primary & Special Schools
17th October 2023, 1.30pm-3.30pm or 14th May 2024, 3.30pm-5.30pm. Online. £40 subscribing schools, £50 for non-subscribing schools.
Audience: Senior Leaders, PSHE Leads, and teachers in primary or special schools.
Exploring Gender
30th October 2023, 3.30pm-5pm or 27th February 2024, 2pm-3.30pm. Online. £40 subscribing schools, £50 for non-subscribing schools.
Audience: Teachers in primary, special and secondary schools.
New to Leading PSHE in Primary & Special Schools
31st October 2023, 9.30am-4.30pm. Armstrong House, Huntingdon. £115 subscribing schools, £135 non-subscribing schools. OR 12th June 2024, 1.30pm-3.30pm. Online. £40 subscribing schools, £50 for non-subscribing schools.
Audience: Those new to leading PSHE, or new to leading the Cambridgeshire Primary Personal Development Programme in primary or special schools.
NEW - Managing Complaints (including serial and persistent complaints) (Book under Leadership and Management of Safeguarding Tab)
Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, Designated Safeguarding Leads, Aspiring Leaders in schools and academies across all phases.
Friday 29 September 11.30-12.30 Virtual course, £35
Single Central Record (Book under Leadership and Management of Safeguarding Tab)
Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, Designated Safeguarding Leads, Aspiring Leaders in schools and academies across all phases.
Monday 16 October 13.30-14.30 Virtual course, £35
NEW - Managing allegations and low-level concerns (Book under Leadership and Management of Safeguarding Tab)
Audience: Headteachers, Senior Leaders, Designated Safeguarding Leads, Aspiring Leaders in schools and academies across all phases.
Tuesday 31 October 13.30-14.30 Virtual course, £35
Leading RE – Primary Schools – 12th Oct 2023, at Buckden Village Hall for £65 for LA schools and £75 for academies. This course is targeted at both new and current RE coordinators who need support and advice on how to lead RE. The aim is to provide practical advice and ideas to ensure that RE is taught and monitored effectively.
New Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education
For all schools, Wednesday 20th September and Tuesday 7th December, via Teams, 3.30 – 5.00pm, £29 for LA schools and £39 for academies This webinar will introduce the new syllabus, what is new for schools to consider and what schools will need to do to update their curriculums over the academic year.
New to Induction Tutor Training!
For New Induction Tutors throughout Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Thursday 21st September 2023 at 13:30-15:30
Tuesday 3rd October 2023 at 15:00-17:00
Online (Zoom)
Free to attend!
NPQ Applications!
Available for teachers interested in enhancing their professional practice.
Deadline: Friday 15th September 2023.
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