What's new from WELL?

Best wishes from the WELL Team

We recognise that all schools will be fully focused on supporting all of the children and young people that are involved in assessments and testing during this term.

We are sending our best wishes to everyone at this time of year.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) Training Opportunity

• Day 1 – 5 June 09:30 – 16:30, Whitehaven Golf Club
• Day 2 – 6 June 09:30 – 16:30, Whitehaven Golf Club

This is the last cohort of this invaluable training we have planned for this academic year and potentially going forward. Full details are included above.

To secure places on this training please contact the School Development Team, as there are still places available.

Wellbeing Cluster Posters

We have already received a number of updated Wellbeing posters. Thank you to the clusters that have updated and returned these.

We look forward to receiving the remaining posters back by Monday 1st July.

If you are your cluster's communication lead and you haven't yet received your cluster wellbeing poster from us to update and return, please email WELL@Cumberland.gov.uk and we will re-send this.

'Finding your Oomph' with Laughology Session

While we are pleased that our planned session with Stephanie Davies from Laughology was fully booked on the same day that it launched, we are aware some schools that were interested in booking places were unable to. 

For all the schools on the waiting list for this event, we are exploring the potential to offer a livestream of the session and will ensure the School Development team informs all schools that have booked places or are on the waiting list if this becomes available.

If you would like to be informed about this possibility, please contact the School Development Team to ensure your school is added to the session's waiting list.

The model of using school INSET days to offer some of our programme appears to have promise based on this exploratory offer and therefore, we will consider this when planning a more hybrid professional development programme for WELL schools in our next phase of the project.

EEF: Self-regulation and Executive Function Article

Please find a link here to the EEF article 'Self-regulation and Executive Function' which includes approaches and practices to support self-regulation and executive function in the Early Years.

Effective Implementation Guidance for Maths Leaders -

18 June 09:30 - 15:30, Greenhill Hotel 

As part of the Cumberland Council Maths Action Plan for 2023-2025, ERA will be delivering training on 'Effective Implementation for all leaders of Maths' within Primary and Secondary settings throughout Cumberland.

The first day of this training will take place on:

Tuesday 18th June 9:30am - 15:30pm, Greenhill Hotel, Wigton.

This session will look at:

• The principles around the process of effective implementation (taking into account the newly updated EEF guidance report)
• The EEF guidance reports key recommendations for Maths
• Supporting leaders determine how to identify their school Maths priorities
• The use of evidence to choose best bets approaches
• How to effectively plan to support colleagues through PD, monitoring and evaluation processes.

This session will form part of a 12-18 month package of support that will continue throughout the academic year 2024-2025 (further dates to follow).

Please book places for the first session on 18th June with the School Development Team.

Evaluation Framework for 2023-24 Impact

Recognising that this is a pressured time, we will send the 'evaluation framework' designed to support evaluation of your WELL funded implementation work, directly to Headteachers the week commencing 20th May. This will allow implementation teams plenty of time to consider and prepare responses.

The deadline for submission of 23-24 evaluations will be Friday 27th September 2024.

Annual Planner 23/24 

Click here to view the WELL Universal Grant Offer Annual Planner 23 -24 for all events and training opportunities remaining this academic year.

This planner is a live link and is updated throughout the year.

Evaluation Framework for 2023-24 Impact

Recognising that this is a pressured time, we will send the 'evaluation framework' designed to support evaluation of your WELL funded implementation work, directly to Headteachers the week commencing 20th May. This will allow implementation teams plenty of time to consider and prepare responses.

The deadline for submission of 23-24 evaluations will be Friday 27th September 2024.

Resources Padlet

An online resources padlet has been developed with resources to support WELL schools that are participating in or interested in using Action Research to support their improvement work.

It contains a practical handbook and a range of presentations, resources and tools developed by Professor Philippa Cordingley (CUREE) and Bart Crisp.

Please find the link to the online resources padlet here.

Put these dates in your diary for this term's upcoming WELL events!

A live link to our Annual Planner for all 2023/24 events is available for Universal and Targeted Grant Offer Schools on our website.

SUMMER TERM 2024

ELSA Conference 2024 (Book via SDT)

• 4 June 09:30 – 15:30, Energus

Youth Mental Health First Aid 5 (Book via SDT)

• Day 1 – 5 June 09:30 – 16:30, Whitehaven Golf Club
• Day 2 – 6 June 09:30 – 16:30, Whitehaven Golf Club

RR Mixed-Phase Training Day 2 (Attend via WELL Invitation)

• 25 Jun 2024 09:00 -15:00, Energus

Action Research: Write-Up Session - Attend 1 Session (Book via SDT)

• 3 Jul 2024 09:00 - 12:00, Whitehaven Golf Club
• 3 Jul 2024 13:00 - 16:00, Whitehaven Golf Club 

RR Secondary Celebration Event (Attend via WELL Invitation)

• 9 Jul 2024 09:00 -15:15, Energus

Great Teaching Toolkit - Summer Learning Community (Attend via WELL Invitation)

• 11 Jul 2024 12:30 - 15:15, Energus

AUTUMN TERM 2024

Finding your Oomph, Getting Motivation & Joy back in the Classroom and Staffroom - Laughology (Book via SDT)

• 3 Sep 2024 (INSET DAY) 13:00 - 15:30, Energus