If you have urgent safeguarding concerns for a child or young person, please continue to call MASH on 01452 426565 and select option 3. If you work with children and families and have safeguarding concerns which are not of an urgent nature and would like a conversation, please contact the Community Social Work Team on 01452 426263. Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for additional information.
Access to the GSCE e-learning courses, for those schools/settings that do not buy into Traded Services for Safeguarding in Education, from 31st October 2020 will cease to be provided free of charge . Further information is available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Details and links to the key communications from the Department for Education (Updated from 26.10.20) are available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
If shared play resources (sand, water, playdough, plasticine etc.) are used, please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for measures to help mitigate risks.
From Monday, schools will be able to start accessing support from NTP Tuition Partners (selected by the EEF) and the first cohort of Academic Mentors (trained by Teach First) will begin working in schools. Please see the Bulletin Board for further information.
Glen Cleaning issued correspondence last week relating to the use of Agency staff. If schools are not prepared to have Agency staff on site they have the opportunity to complete the form available at the above link and they will continue to be cleaned by Glen Cleaning staff.
We are very proud to announce the launch of Gloucestershire County Council’s new virtual training and communities’ platform GCCPlusTraining.org. Additional information can be found on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
This term’s headteacher briefings, hosted by the Education Outcomes and Intervention team, will be a one hour event delivered via Webex. The event will be repeated on three separate occasions and will be recorded to be watched at a later date. More information including dates and how to book are available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Previous issues of Heads Up, for the current academic year, are available on Schoolsnet at this link