• Cluster Wellbeing Projects 

Please can those clusters that have not yet returned an updated wellbeing evaluation poster send it back to us by the end of this term. Versions that we have after this date will be shared with the WELL Board as evidence of the quality of your collaboration.

• Universal/ Targeted Grants 2023/24 

We look forward to receiving evaluated and updated implementation plans. A reminder that the closing date is 31^st October 2023. This is to give time to evaluate progress to date and to consider your end of key stage outcomes, including for disadvantaged pupils. Data analysis will form part of our Quality Assurance process when looking at plans received. 

Enjoy the end of term and then rest!

Latest Updates this week!

On behalf of everyone at WELL, thank you for your continued engagement and commitment.

This is a very ambitious project, with the challenges made more complex by events of the last two years. The formative evaluation of WELL due in November will identify areas of progress as well as areas for improvement. It will be through your feedback and outcomes that we will have an opportunity to celebrate success and to rectify mechanisms that are not as effective as they could be.

We are extremely grateful and wish you healthy and restful Summer!

WELL Programme for 23/24

As promised last week, please find the link to our Universal and Targeted WELL Programmes for 2023-24. This is a live link and will be updated throughout the summer and into the academic year.

The link will be included in all future WOW communications so you can access the most up to date programme. Details of how to book onto our sessions will be added to this live document in September. Next year, a PP workshop with Marc Rowland and an Evaluating Impact Workshop with ERA in the spring term will be required attendance events.

At the start of next term, please note we are pleased to be offering an effective implementation training event for new heads/ implementation leads on 26th September. Please hold this date in your diaries if you feel this workshop will support your school.

Image Description: Text reading 'WELL Annual Planner 2023 - 24'

The Educational Research Alliance (ERA), led through Ashfield Junior School, will be in place from the start of the new academic year!

This is a really exciting next step, with commitment from a range of quality evidence-based partners including EEF, EBE, and Marc Rowland. During the autumn term, we will be cementing partnerships with valued national and local partners to utilise their expertise and to coordinate opportunities that meet your needs.

We look forward to offering you high quality evidence informed inputs as we begin the new ERA!

Implementation Plans 

When updating the notes section of your plan please be as specific as you can about the impact for your chosen focus and for those aspects where you have applied the implementation process.

The following headings will help frame your updates NOTES section of your evaluation:

1. Summary of approaches implemented in the academic year 2022 – 2023 ​
2. Examples of collaboration with other schools where relevant
3. Evaluation / Judgement on progress with identified priority (are we on track?)​
4. 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)​
5. Teacher / Support staff / Leadership outcomes ​
6. Challenges / Strategies to Overcome / Wider learning​

Implementation Plans

When updating the notes section of your plan please be as specific as you can about the impact for your chosen focus and for those aspects where you have applied the implementation process. It is essential to include a specific focus on an evaluation of the impact to date on disadvantaged pupils. 

The following headings will help frame your updates NOTES section of your evaluation:

1. Summary of approaches implemented in the academic year 2022 – 2023 ​
2. Examples of collaboration with other schools where relevant
3. Evaluation / Judgement on progress with identified priority (are we on track?)​
4. 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)​
5. Teacher / Support staff / Leadership outcomes ​
6. Challenges / Strategies to Overcome / Wider learning​

Face to face Learning Community

Thank you to everyone who attended this event, it was great to have such a fantastic attendance last week and the quality of the conversation was outstanding. We look forward to supporting our GTT community of schools again next year.

Secondary Subject Teachers Reciprocal Reading Development Project

We were delighted that every school’s responded to our request for information quickly and within the requested deadline. We are looking forward to seeing how this works develops next year.

Emotional Literacy Support Assistants

The WELL team has worked with the Ed Psych team to identify schools from the expressions of interest received for places on the Autumn Term cohort.

Schools have been identified based on whether they currently have no ELSAs in place, whether their ELSA has left the school and whether ELSA is a key priority in their implementation plans. These schools will be contacted in September to see if they still require places for the Autumn Term programme. Details of how to book places on the Spring term ELSA training programme will be circulated to all schools in September.

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