Safeguarding
Following serious concern over a number of teenage suicides, the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership and Suicide Prevention Group have sent out stickers for pupils to put in planners. The labels include signposts to both Hope House, Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) and Gloucestershire Rape and Sexual Abuse Support. The Bulletin Board at the above link has further details.
Effective information sharing underpins integrated working and is a vital element of both early intervention and safeguarding. Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for a GSCP Practice Briefing which offers a short guide to information sharing to safeguard children.
All Schools
Please see the Bulletin Board at the above link for information regarding an increase in acute Hepatitis in young children and free posters for managing cases of infectious diseases.
Following the recent request for nominations, this seat remains vacant as no nominations were received. If you would like to put your name forward for this seat, please contact Joanne Bolton, Clerk to the Schools Forum, Gloucestershire County Council. Telephone: 01452 324197 joanne.bolton@gloucestershire.gov.uk
The Department for Education (DfE) has made a number of amendments to the guidance and requirements for pupil premium which schools should be aware of when developing pupil premium strategy statements for 2022-23. Further information is available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Education settings can sign up for free to the NCSC's Web Check and Mail Check services to protect their websites and e-mail servers from cyber attacks. See https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/schools-offered-free-cyber-defence-tools-to-help-keep-out-attackers.
The current Gloucestershire Agreed Syllabus for RE runs from 2017-2022. However, Gloucestershire Standing Advisory Council on RE (SACRE) has decided to extend the current syllabus for two years, to 2024. A review is underway that takes account of wider national developments. The Bulletin Board at the above link has further details.
Gloucestershire County Council is working with Coram Voice for the fourth year to carry out an independent survey to all children in care and care leavers (aged 4- 25) who are placed by Gloucestershire County Council. Further information is available on the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Applications for Holiday Free School Meal Vouchers for the May half-term period is now open until midday 24 May. Voucher emails will be sent out between 25 and 26 May. The Bulletin Board at the above link has additional information.
Primary
There are still places at the annual Gloucestershire Primary RE conference. Sessions include: Ofsted deep dives; ‘ways of knowing’ in RE; good learning in RE with 4-7s; RE in small schools; teaching about Muslims etc. Full details and booking form are available on the Bulletin Board at the above link. Discount rate for two teachers from the same school.
The 2022 Gloucestershire local authority (LA) KS1 and KS2 teacher assessment moderation plans, plus related appeals processes, can be accessed now via the Statutory requirements for assessment page on GCC Schoolsnet. This ensures that the LA complies with statutory requirements as set out in the STA 2022 KS1 and KS2 teacher assessment guidance.
Tom Hall, Physical Activity Specialist for children and young people at Active Gloucestershire, speaks to Ben Morris, Director of Play at Play Gloucestershire about why play is so important to children and how they should be encouraged to play every day. To find out more, please see the Bulletin Board at the above link.
Secondary
There are still places at the annual Gloucestershire Secondary RE conference at Puckrup Hall. Sessions include: Religion and worldviews; approaches to Sikh worldviews; ‘Ways of knowing: multidisciplinary RE’. Full details and booking form are available on the Bulletin Board at the above link. Discount rate for two teachers from the same school.
Governance
A list of training until March 2023 is available on the Governor Services webpage (link above)
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