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Welcome Back After Half Term

We hope that you managed to have some rest to recharge over half term. It is a source of inspiration that as we move into the final half term of this three year phase of WELL, your continued commitment to be an essential part of the WELL family is still so evident. Thank you.

Independent Evaluation Survey 2024

The Independent evaluation survey will be sent out to Headteachers on the 10th June from noreply@qemailserver.com.

The response rate to this survey last year was 86%, which was brilliant. Let's go for at least 90% responses this year! If you can't find an email from this address on the 10th June, please check your 'spam' / 'junk' folders.

To support your survey completion, Headteachers will receive a list of all WELL opportunities accessed by your school between 2021 - 2024 from Vicki.Clarke@cumberland.gov.uk by the end of day today (5th June).

If your school hasn't received this list by the end of today please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk.

Access to Excellence

We have been fortunate to continue to develop partnerships with high quality, evidence informed experts, who have a shared passion to work with WELL and to support you to make a difference in West Cumberland.

Subject to future funding, plans are being developed to continue to access expertise through ERA, to continue to provide grants, to offer further access to Marc Rowland, the team at Evidence Based Education (Great Teaching Toolkit), Louise Quinn (Shotton Hall), Sally Franklin (MITA), ImpactEd and exciting developments with the University of Cumbria and Cumbrian Award. We can also confirm that plans for WELL schools to access training with Professor Jonathan Sharples, the lead author of EEF’s Schools Guide to Implementation, and the revised guidance, published in May are being developed.

As soon as we know the decision regarding future funding, we will set out and share a full outline of the future planned opportunities that will be available to our schools going forward. 

EEF Revised Guidance Report and Additional Tools

The newly published EEF Implementation Guidance Report and accompanying resources have been designed to support schools ensure that they are taking new approaches or practices have the biggest possible impact on children and young people’s outcomes. The guidance focuses on three key elements:

1. The behaviours that drive effective implementation.
2. The contextual factors that facilitate implementation.
3. A structured, but flexible, process to enact implementation.

Click here to view the full updated guidance report and access links to supporting resources.

EEF Blog - 'The Importance of Using Multiple Evidence Sources'

The EEF has published an article to help those involved in school improvement and professional development to break down what research use can look in their contexts.

Click here to view the full article. 

Disadvantaged Provision Project with Marc Rowland Network Meetings 

A reminder for all schools participating in the  Disadvantage Provision project with Marc Rowland, that there are two network meetings this week:

'Maximising Opportunities to Learn' - Wednesday 5 June 16:00 - 17:00 at Westfield Primary School 

'Next steps for 2024-25' - Thursday 6 June 16:00 - 17:00 at Bransty Primary School 

Effective Implementation Guidance for Maths Leaders Session

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 Guidance Framework

A guidance framework for the Evaluation of your WELL funded implementation work was sent out to Headteachers just before half term.

Further details of support available and the evaluation form will be provided this month and Implementation teams will have until Friday 11th October to complete and return the evaluation.

In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to discuss your implementation evaluation with Dale, please email Dale.Hill@Cumbria.gov.uk and he will arrange a conversation.

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 Guidance Framework

A guidance framework for the Evaluation of your WELL funded implementation work was sent out to Headteachers just before half term.

Further details of support available and the evaluation form will be provided this month and Implementation teams will have until Friday 11th October to complete and return the evaluation.

In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to discuss your implementation evaluation with Dale, please email Dale.Hill@Cumbria.gov.uk and he will arrange a conversation.

Conference Evaluation Report

Thank you to all MADE Conference attendees that completed the Evaluation survey.

The time taken to provide us with this feedback, will benefit the entire project. The overall response was overwhelmingly positive.

The full evaluation of MADE Conference can be found here.

A reminder of Reciprocal Reading events coming up this half term:

RR Mixed Phase Training - Day 2

Tuesday 25 June 09:00 – 15:00, Energus

Please 'accept' the meeting invite from WELL@Cumberland.gov.uk as confirmation of attendance to this event, if you haven't done so already.

RR Secondary Celebration Event 

Tuesday 9 July 09:00 – 15:15, Energus

Please 'accept' the meeting invite from WELL@Cumberland.gov.uk as confirmation of attendance to this event, if you haven't done so already.

A reminder that the final Action Research session of this academic year will take place on Wednesday 3 July, full details are below.

Please choose to attend either the morning or afternoon session and book your places with the School Development Team.

Action Research - Write Up Session

Choose one of the two dates:
Wednesday 3 July 09:00 – 12:00, Whitehaven Golf Club
Wednesday 3 July 13:00 – 16:00, Whitehaven Golf Club

We are looking forward to seeing some of our schools there.

Evaluation report

Thank you to the Headteachers and ELSAs that completed the ELSA Evaluation survey. The time taken to provide us with this feedback, will be invaluable to future planning for this key intervention. We will share details of future ELSA cohorts in WOW.

The 2024 Headteacher and ELSA surveys evidence that the WELL ambition to build internal school capacity to support pupil well-being is being met, with 99% Headteachers and 95% of ELSAs that responded to the survey, judging this to be the case.

The full ELSA evaluation 2024 can be found here.

Cumberland ELSA Conference 2024

Yesterday we welcomed over 100 trained ELSAs to the first ELSA conference in Cumberland.

Thank you for prioritising professional development for these wonderful people, thank you to the Cumberland Educational Psychology team for their commitment to WELL Schools, and thank you to the ELSAs for making such a difference. 

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

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
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