Happy Wednesday!

CET: Attendance Project 2024/25

We are proud to support the Cumbria Education Trust (CET) 2024/25 Attendance Project.

Colleagues within the Education Research Alliance (ERA) will be leading one of the sessions.

For more information and to reserve spaces on the project, please visit the Cumbria Education Trust website HERE.

The first session will take place on Wednesday 19th March 3.45pm - 4.45pm, Online.

'WELL Work in Action' Visit from Dale

Last week, Dale was invited to see WELL work in action in one of our family of schools.

Dale said it was a wonderful visit and a privilege to spend three hours in lessons and in discussions, seeing at first hand, the excellent work that is taking place.

He was impressed to see how teachers and teaching assistants are embracing evidence informed teaching and learning strategies, particularly the core components of highly effective questioning. As a result, Dale saw highly engaged children in all phases. They were enthused, focused and thriving in inclusive environments.

If you would like to invite Dale to see your WELL work in action at school, he would relish this opportunity.

Please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk and we will do our best to arrange a visit.

Disadvantaged Provision Project  (Cohort 1)

The next Disadvantaged Provision Project (DPP) Network Meeting for Cohort 1 will take place on Thursday 27th March 4 - 5pm, Education Research Alliance (ERA) Building (CA14 4ES).

This is a polite reminder for all DPP Cohort 1 schools, to return your network meeting focus preferences to head@ashfield-jun.cumbria.sch.uk by Friday 21st March.

EEF Research School Network Maths Blogs 

We know that many of our schools have Maths as an identified key priority.

The EEF Research School Network is developing some really helpful resources and blogs to support the use of evidence, and our regional lead, Kate Horton(an ERA partner) has helpfully pulled these together into a single document for WELL Schools. We hope you and your Maths leads find them helpful in your work.

Please find a link to the resources and blogs HERE.

Implementation Planning

We are in the process of reviewing and grouping implementation plans based on key priority areas.

We will be sharing examples of these plans to support implementation planning for next academic year by the Summer Term.

If you would prefer your school's priority area not to be shared with other WELL schools, please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk to let us know.

Summer Term 2025/26 Implementation Planning Sessions

Towards the end of Summer Term, we will also be offering a number of implementation planning sessions at the ERA building (CA14 4ES). Where you could choose to review and work on your plans for 2025/26 with implementation colleagues and share ideas with other school teams tackling similar priorities.

More details will be shared in future WOWs.

Latest Award Newsletter

Beth Loughran-Layton, Cumbrian Award Development Officer, is now providing a bespoke Cumbrian Award Newsletter to participating schools.

If you have not received the latest newsletter, please email Cumbrian.Award@cumberland.gov.uk and we will ensure you receive this going forward.

Summer Term Workshops (Cohort 1)

This week we will be contacting all current MITA schools with dates for the Summer Term workshops and follow-up on this programme. Please 'HOLD' Monday 1st September INSET Day, as we are planning an additional face-to-face event.

Cohort 2 Developments

After exciting conversations with Sally Franklin, the WELL Team is planning the possibility of a second cohort of the MITA programme next academic year. Please see provisional dates for this training below:

• DAY 1 (HT / SLT) - Thursday 2nd October 2025
• DAY 2 (HT / SLT) - Thursday 20th November 2025
• INSET DAY (TAs) - Tuesday 6th January 2026

If you school would be interested in joining Cohort 2 of this programme or would like to find out more, please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk and we will contact you directly to confirm next steps.

WELL April 2025 Cohort 

Thank you for those of you that signed up to the ELSA waiting list.

WELL is pleased to confirm a 6-day ELSA training cohort, starting on Tuesday 1st April, with a pre-course information session for Headteachers/ SENDCos on Monday 24th March from 15:45 – 17:00 is available for WELL schools.

This excellent ELSA programme has been developed by WELL and Cognus Education Ltd, with the support of the Acting Principal Educational Psychologist of the Cumberland Psychological Service, to ensure full alignment with the Cumberland Service.

This 6-day training programme will be delivered by ELSA Network Educational Psychologists Dr Emily Crosby and Nicholas English from Cognus Education Ltd, with half termly group supervision sessions. Please find all training dates below:

• Pre-course Information Webinar (HT/ SENDCos) Monday 24th March 15:45 – 17:00 (Online)
• Day 1  Tuesday 1st April 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Function Room)
• Day 2  Thursday 24th April 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Function Room)
• Day 3  Monday 19th May 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Falcon Room)
• Day 4  Tuesday 3rd June 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Falcon Room)
• Day 5  Wednesday 25th June 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Falcon Room)
• Day 6  Tuesday 8th July 09:30 – 15:00, Whitehaven Golf Club (Falcon Room)

If you have not previously confirmed to us a request for a place on our ELSA cohorts for this year and would like to be placed on the waiting list, in case a place does become available for programmes this year. Please email WELL@cumberland.gov.uk.

If you would like a place on an ELSA programme next academic year, please register your interest by emailing WELL@cumberland.gov.uk. This will enable to us consider demand and the feasibility to meet that demand next year.

Annual Events Planner and Programmes Padlet 2024/25

The WELL Programmes Padlet outlines all of our high quality professional development programmes available for 2024/25.

All WELL Events and upcoming training sessions are detailed in the WELL Annual Events Planner.

Events on the Annual Events Planner with a 'green dot' are bookable via SLA Online/ School Development Team. For all other events, please email WELL@Cumberland.gov.uk directly to express an interest.

The Annual Events Planner is a live link and will be updated throughout the year.