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Happy Wednesday!
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Wellbeing Clusters – Please can clusters update and return their updated and final wellbeing evaluation posters before the end of term
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Head Teachers of schools participating in Reciprocal Reading for Secondary Subject Teachers - Please return signed Grant Agreement and MoU by THIS FRIDAY 14th July
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Latest Updates This Week!
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WELL Evaluation Survey 2023
The WELL Evaluation survey has now closed. We understand that 101 schools dedicated time to provide invaluable feedback.
Thank you for engaging so brilliantly and we will use formative evaluation to improve project delivery for you next year.
We will share the evaluation report with you in the Autumn Term.
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WELL Programme for 23/24
Please look out for WELL on a Tuesday next week! Where we will be sharing a link to the WELL programme for 23/24. We will ensure that this programme is kept up to date, including details of how to book onto a compelling menu of high quality events.
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Grant Offer Letters 23/24
Individual grant offer letter will be circulated this week. The deadline for submission of agreements and plans is the 31st October 2023.
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 Visits to participating schools this term have demonstrated why this award is so important. The work of the pupils and teachers involved serves as an inspiration.
We recognise that some schools may perceive that the award creates additional capacity issues. The feedback from our schools is that the award fully complements a relevant and exciting curriculum. All of the participating schools have confirmed a desire to continue next year and we will confirm details of grant support to those schools before the end of term.
We have also received a number of emails this week expressing a wish to become a Cumbrian Award School next year. If you are considering or would like to get involved, next academic year please email well@cumberland.gov.uk and we can outline how the award works to enable you to make an informed decision.
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Implementation Plans
Just a reminder when updating the notes section of your plan please ensure your progress takes account of the following headings:
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Summary of approaches implemented in the academic year 2022 – 2023
- Examples of collaboration with other schools where relevant
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Evaluation / Judgement on progress with identified priority (are we on track?)
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Pupil outcomes, including anonymised data to support judgements (to include disadvantaged impact, comparing with 2022 baseline outcomes where possible. If there are no disadvantaged pupils in the school/cohort include information for the identified pupils)
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Teacher / Support staff / Leadership outcomes
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Challenges / Strategies to Overcome / Wider learning
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Implementation Plans
Just a reminder when updating the notes section of your plan it is essential to include a specific focus on an evaluation of the impact to date on disadvantaged pupils.
Additionally, please ensure your progress takes account of the following headings:
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Summary of approaches implemented in the academic year 2022 – 2023
- Examples of collaboration with other schools where relevant
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Evaluation / Judgement on progress with identified priority (are we on track?)
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Pupil outcomes, including anonymised data to support judgements (to include disadvantaged impact, comparing with 2022 baseline outcomes where possible. If there are no disadvantaged pupils in the school/cohort include information for the identified pupils)
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Teacher / Support staff / Leadership outcomes
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Challenges / Strategies to Overcome / Wider learning
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GTT 2023/24
All schools involved in the WELL GTT Project in 22-23 will have received an email last week regarding funding for 23-24.
Please take a look at this email as it explains the requirements for the grant including attending tomorrow’s and future GTT sessions and evaluating 2022-23.
Face to face Learning Community
We are looking forward to welcoming you all the learning event tomorrow 1pm to 3.15pm at the Whitehaven Golf Course. There will be a lunch served from 12:30.
Those schools that are planning to continue and develop the use of GTT next year, will need to attend this event in order to access and benefit from the WELL GTT grant next year.
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Session Preparation
In preparation for this session, please consider your GTT journey so far:
- 'What have you done this year?'
- 'What are you thinking of doing with GTT next year?'
Please be prepared to listen and share these journeys with the rest of the learning community.
Please bring your work laptops if you can, we would like to explore the teams site community we have set up for you all at this session. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
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Secondary Subject Teachers Reciprocal Reading Development Project
Last week the Grant Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding for this project was sent out all participating Secondary schools. We have already had a number of these returned to us, thank you to those schools.
Please can all remaining schools look out for this communication, as FFT will be invoicing individual schools over the next week. The communication also contains dates for all future sessions.
We request that the Grant and MoU are completed and returned to well@cumberland.gov.uk before THIS FRIDAY 14th July.
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We will continue to work with Phillipa and Bart from CUREE and CfEY next academic year.
Developing and embedding a research and evidence-based approach to school improvement and professional learning is central to the ambition of Western Excellence in Learning and Leadership (WELL). Action research is a really powerful way to enable collaborative, reflective, problem-solving approaches to address carefully diagnosed priorities, and to improve classroom practice.
Our participating schools are learning organisations, continuously striving to be better for the children and young people, including the disadvantaged and vulnerable. One of real strengths of action research is that it takes advantage of rich, local, practitioner knowledge. Through engagement in action research, learning and conclusions take our local context into account and are therefore more likely to indicate if positive changes seen might be suitable to reach across an individual school or, with some intelligent adaptation, more widely across other schools.
Through WELL, engagement in quality action research enables the gathering and crucially, the sharing of relevant, rigorous, and rich evidence. The Schools that participated in the Action Research strand in 21-22 and 22-23 found that this complemented their wider WELL-supported efforts to implement evidence-informed approaches, helping them to identify a baseline picture and to draw out and reflect on emerging implications for their practice and whole school leadership.
We encourage all current AR schools and new schools to join us in this key WELL element next year!
Details of how to book will be available from September, please hold dates in your diary. We are offering multiple dates for each stage of the process:
1: Launch & Learning Session – Attend either 8th PM or 9th AM Nov 2023
2: Planning for evidence collection – Attend either 27th PM or 28th AM Feb 2024
3: Re-energiser and stock take session – Attend 1st May 2024 PM (Online)
4: Write-up session – Attend either 3rd July AM or PM
All 2022/23 AR resources have been uploaded to our website, please take a look and email us if you would like to hear more about Action Research!
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Emotional Literacy Support Assistants
As mentioned last week, the Autumn Elsa cohort will begin in November with a briefing for headteachers taking place in October. The Spring term cohort will commence in the third week of Feb 2024, with a briefing for head teachers in the first week of February.
We are continuing to work with Ed Psych team and full details including booking arrangements will be shared as soon as they are available.
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WELL ON WEDNESDAYS WORDS OF THE WEEK
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“Just keep swimming”
- Dory, Finding Nemo
If you have any suggestions for next week's WOW WOW - please email us!
Put these dates in your diary for this terms upcoming WELL events!
GTT Learning Community (Face to Face Session)
- 13 July 13:00-15:15 – Whitehaven Golf Club (WGC)
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Sign up for WELL Events in the following ways:
1) Registered users can book via SLA Online
2) Email school.development@cumbria.gov.uk
3) Phone 01228 221312 / 221316 / 221315
Thank you for taking the time to read WOW.
Do you have any feedback for WELL on Wednesdays?
Is there information missing from this newsletter that you would like to see or how we can improve engagement? We would love to hear from you. Please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk with all comments.
To find this WOW and all previous versions - please visit our website.
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